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THE STONE TAPE
Good commentary and links, thanks!Funny, your comment about the menace being male makes perfect sense in retrospect, and as you may have noticed, we picked up the pervasive sexism in the story, but I for one didn't perceive the menacing powers …

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Episode 57 - The Dalotek Affair
I would be astounded if RTD wasn't well acquainted with UFO.No real spoilers, but there is a future episode which, rather pointedly explores the implications and morality of the amnesia drug. It's not a pretty picture.

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Episode 59 - Let's Kill Causality
Reply to @MrSimonWood: Marmite and its antipodean cousin, Vegemite are mostly absent from the US. Mostly available in specialty shops catering to ex-pats.Fresh & Easy (Tesco) actually carries Marmite (along with Heinz Beans & PG Tips) altho…

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Episode 56 - Let's Kill Hitler
I'll be so happy if this gets pulled together nicer on Saturday, but I'm afraid it will... how do they say it? -- "Come a cropper."

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Episode 59 - Let's Kill Causality
I'll address the "standards of the day" argument separately. I'll use Sherlock Holmes as an example. I recently read several contemporary Sherlock Holmes books. They, of course, followed the convention of being the first perso…

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Episode 59 - Let's Kill Causality
Hmmmm. That's a fair analysis and I can see how it could come out seeming that way. While we don't actively court debate on Fusion Patrol, there's no doubt that dissenting opinions cause one to defend them more rigorously, rather th…

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Episode 56 - Let's Kill Hitler
Perhaps it's my background, 34 years man and boy as a computer programmer, and I like my puzzles to work out in a precise, functional way in the end. Anything else is just buggy logic.I also think that intent is incredibly important. If this …

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Episode 58 - Night Terrors
The neighbors really seemed mostly pointless, except to provide some demonstration to the audience that there was a real menace creeping about.

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
Much has been said about that Galactica thing, so I'll just leave it; however, I think the rest of your list is mostly uncontroversial.I know that you had not had exposure to Sapphire & Steel before the podcast, and it pleases me no end to …

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
OK, if you wish to avoid spoilers on B5 and B7, just skip from 16:25 start to 36:50 end. The discussions of both are back-to-back.

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
Well, what I meant was that some things are easy to put on one side of the line or other. Things like space travel make the line easy. Others are more difficult.Primeval... time travel=science fiction. Is it natural or man made? I can't an…

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
If you like, I'll time out the episode and let you know where to avoid B7 and B5 discussion.Did I explicitly say Life on Mars was ineligible? I might have, but don't remember it. I'll take a shot at why I would probably eliminate it…

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Episode 56 - Let's Kill Hitler
It's really not so much as a second diatribe as a larger one aimed at the whole "tapestry" of the universe. :-)Here's my question: Do you ever do jigsaw puzzles? Ever done one that someone else bought and gave you after they f…

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Episode 56 - Let's Kill Hitler
Wait till you hear episode 59, tentatively entitled, "Let's Kill The Time Line!" or perhaps "Let's Kill Causality!"Actually, I read your review and I was fascinated by the fact that on first viewing, you obviously had …

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
Reply to @robert_hubbard: I was going to defend Babylon 5 and say that they forced things into season 4 because they were effectively cancelled due to the implosion of the PTEN; however, in re-reading your comment, I guess one could say they were h…

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
As promised, here it is... Our lists for the 10 best SciFi shows of all time. Position Ben Eugene 10 Go Sei Sentai Dairanger Wild, Wild West/Space: 1999 (Series 1) 9 Lost X-Files 8 Battlestar Galactica (Reboot) The Prisoner 7 UFO Outer Limits 6 X-…

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Your Top 10 Best Science Fiction Shows!
I knew this was going to happen. I don't want to tip my hand until part 2 is released, but I will say I "cheated" and had a 3-way tie for one of the slots. Of those three, Sapphire & Steel was one of them; however, I removed it j…

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S01E06 - And Only Man Is Vile
Here's an important takeaway from that article, Bova's "Starcrossed" parody of the Star Lost experiment is in print in his "Laugh Lines" compilation. Available from Amazon. I've ordered it, it's all sorted.

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S01E06 - And Only Man Is Vile
Eeewww. There's an animated winky-face in my last post. The winky-face was intentional, the animated part was not.

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S01E06 - And Only Man Is Vile
Excellent! Thank you! I love solid, first-hand factual information of this kind... although uninformed speculation is more fun! ;-)

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Spoilers and What You Need to Know
I heard about this the other day on some podcast, although for the life of me I can't remember which one - Maybe Skeptics Guide to the Universe.There are so many ways that programs and stories are "spoiled" and, for the most part, I a…

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The Trap - Sapphire & Steel's Final Adventure?
Subscribed!

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The Trap - Sapphire & Steel's Final Adventure?
Reply to @Eamonn: Got a URL for that podcast? I'll check it out.

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S01E10 and S01E12 Shoot Out at Land's End and the Naked Montague
Good article.Not too long ago (well, less than a year) I saw quite a long discussion with Mr. Duffy about his career - from his time in Man From Atlantis to his current web series, Patrick Duffy and the Crab.He really came off well in the interview.…

Comment by Eugene July 2011 permalink
General Appreciation...
Welcome, Robert and thanks!As it happens, I have Nigel Kneale's Stone Tape on the hard drive waiting for an opportunity to watch it for the show. I've been a fan of Kneale for some years. I understand it's quite atmospheric and scar…

Comment by Eugene July 2011 permalink
Episode 46 - The Rebel Flesh & The Almost People
...and come to think of it. The Doctor gives the order to wipe out the Silence in 1969, but we actually see them in the beginning of the Impossible Astronaut in 2011, which, apart from timey wimey, generally happens after 1969... and Amy did her st…

Comment by Eugene May 2011 permalink
Episode 46 - The Rebel Flesh & The Almost People
The first point I missed that I wanted to discuss was Sneezy. Actually, his name was Dicken, but I shall call him "Sneezy."Why you may ask? Because he kept sneezing. Why did he do that? It's never mentioned in the plot and we neve…

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Spoilers and What You Need to Know
I heard his rant earlier today and, in this instance, I rather agree with him, but we are talking about something brand new, something that has been under a major cloud of secrecy and then, it was the DW/BBC team that held the screening that resulte…

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Episode 42, The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon
Reply to @Simon: It's not that it doesn't look great, but it's rather like stunt casting.it's just another thing that feels like it was done for the marketing of the story rather than the advancement of the story.It's funny,…

Comment by Eugene May 2011 permalink
Radio Drama Sidecar 001
Geography of the US plays a distinct part in the history of our technological advancement. Let's face it, the US is a massive chunk of land to handle cohesively, and we have a historical tendency towards de-centralizing.It's safe to say t…

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