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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The definitive Doctor for me. Growing up during the wilderness years and VHS and UK Gold repeats were what we had to go on I loved both the earlier 'horror' seasons and the more humorous ones with the Romanas.

Wonderful actor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ace and the 7th Doctor were the first Doctor Who I saw - her beating up a Dalek with a baseball bat is my favourite companion moment ever from all of Who!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Find the nearest English Civil War reenactment and go watch it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rick is just 12 having some downtime

 

RIP Captain Mike Yates

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

God's sake. I mean... At least he's apologising? I could imagine some of our recent lot doubling down on this and refusing to give in to wokeness blah blah blah...

But yeah. I'm really trying hard to be charitable cos it's Christmas and everything. That's not really pleasant stuff to hear from the guy who is in charge of the Police (over 1,100 under investigation for sexual assault or domestic violence atm)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Love his Thursday Next books to bits!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It depends on the game, character etc. I mean I suppose it adds to the escapism slightly?

I play all sorts of different games though, some where you're not given the choice (Life Is Strange for example) and I don't feel like it's that big a deal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you Ian Levine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I finished Consider Phlebas on my commute - I still don't rank it quite as highly as the others but it came to life more at the end. My favourite bit was when Horza was trapped on the cannibal cult island. Completely irrelevant to the plot but some excellent wtf storytelling!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only noticed this comment now, I've been reading the Culture series too - I enjoyed the world building in Consider Phlebas a lot but after a while I just wanted it to finish. So I skipped on and read a few others in the series then came back to finish it.

The Player Of Games was brilliant, enjoy!

 

New entry in my blog about media that shaped me growing up - my first memory of TV is the famous cliffhanger to part 1.

I'd maybe still rate it as the best Dalek story but I can't be objective about it really!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been reading The Culture series by Iain M Banks. I gave up on the first book a while back, which I've heard is quite common, but I plan to go back and finish it.

I've just read The Player Of Games and Excession and both are exceptional.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had no idea of this - I just googled it and it's almost exactly like something out of the book.

 

As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation

 

Well this could be very interesting indeed... Obviously the main question is how on earth can they cut anything from that story down to 75 minutes when it's already such a lean script with no padding at all?!?

I'm a huge Troughton fan though, and while I'm g glad there's been something of a First Doctor revival in the last few years it'd be great to see a colourised Mind Robber or something as well, not that it will happen...

 

It's nice to know that they're planning to do some more Hartnell animations. Although The Smugglers would seem like quite an odd choice

 

With every available Doctor Who episode and its wife coming to BBC iPlayer on November 1, how should you approach a Classic and NuWho rewatch? We have options...

 

Doctor Who fans can look forward to new interviews from Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall.

 

People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.

 

Morrissey must track down the missing sheet music for 'Suedehead'

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It was hoped video would increase transparency in policing, but BBC has uncovered 150 reports of failings.

"The most serious allegations include:

*Cases in seven forces where officers shared camera footage with colleagues or friends - either in person, via WhatsApp or on social media

*Images of a naked person being shared between officers on email and cameras used to covertly record conversations

*Footage being lost, deleted or not marked as evidence, including video, filmed by Bedfordshire Police, of a vulnerable woman alleging she had been raped by an inspector - the force later blamed an "administrative error"

*Switching off cameras during incidents, for which some officers faced no sanctions - one force said an officer may have been "confused"

 

The home secretary backed police and ordered a review of armed units after officers protested over a murder charge


Background on this for non-UK people -

  • Black guy shot by armed policeman whilst sitting in his own car.

  • Policeman arrested for murder, released on bail.

  • Last weekend armed police 'strike' by dropping their weapons because one of their own has been charged with murder

As per usual the victim is being forgotten in all of this while it turns into a massively corrupt political game.

 

Can you blame it?

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