... The second episode was a bit better, in that it had a story, which the first one didn't. It wasn't much of a story. Other, less glossy and insubstantial,...
... Oh, I get it now. You think I was making a reference to Dr Who when I said "too many BBC shows these days". I was actually thinking about other shows like...
... Yeah, pretty much. It was a disappointment. I came to it with a really open mind wanting to like it (Survivors being my all time fave genre TV show) but it...
... I don't think it's that bad. I actually preferred the first episode to the second, perhaps because it had a bit more room to explore what it was saying. I...
... Surely that's not possible. And I say that as someone who read 'Sleepers of Mars'. ... I admit that in parts it does feel a bit "so what" - Flood suffered...
... What more could you want than the novelisation of a 1950's Quake session in a mushroom farm? <or at least that's my recollection> Yet somehow, I still...
... I'm not sure I follow this line of reasoning. It is a drama serial - each episode isn't designed to be a complete self-contained story. I would also argue...
... I think I under-appreciated "The Trouble with Lichen" at the time, as a teenager more interested in big events than satire... must re-read that one. The...
... Is 'The Secet People' the one he published as John Benyon (or something similar). I've read that - and Sleeper of Mars - and I wasn't even aware I was a...
... Yes. Sleepers of Mars is a sequel to Stowaway to Mars. There's a 4th novel by him writing as Benyon, too... damned if I can remember it... my LibraryThing...
... Well, no, but you'd expect that in ninety minutes there'd be some kind of story-shape, at least. Whereas... ... ... that's exactly wehat I meant. The whole...
... It is quite different in feel to other Wyndhams, yes. I quite liked it. ... It's obviously not quite finished. As I've never been afraid of spiders it...
... The ITV kids Chocky was... well, it felt like an ITV kids show. I don't mean that in a bad way, but it's a rather different tone than Wyndham's original...
Reviewing new Who DVD box set, according to a comment in <http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/mark-kate-introduce-the-word-prog-rock-special> by some BF...
I was looking up when Lance's 9th Doctor book, "The Eyeless", is released (which is bizarrely Boxing Day, but presumably copies will appear before the official...
Henry Potts <bondegezou@...> wrote ... OK, so it's from some people called Fantom Films <http://fantomfilms.co.uk/index.htm>, they've already done "The...
... Why? I mean, I thought the Time Hunters were a pretty strong line of books, but is the world really crying out for audiobooks read by random Dr Who actors?...
... I've not actually heard this myself, but apparently it is out and available for purchase and so on. It's Cabinet of Light, mine and I think they're doing...
... No. The official release date is definitely the 26th: <http://www.bbcshop.com/David-Tennant/Doctor-Who-The-Eyeless/invt/9781846075629> and other sources. ...
