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Dear Mr. Davies,

Greetings good sir!  I know this is a very exciting time for you, so I thank you for taking the time (I hope) to read this proposal.  Please know that I have been a fan of your helming of Doctor Who since that very first episode with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor.  I am looking forward to where you are taking the series next, especially with the return of The Toymaker and the debut of Ncuti Gatwa as the next Doctor.

However, Mr, Davies, I am somewhat dismayed that you are apparently not turning some attention toward addressing the matter of “the Timeless Child”: by far THE most controversial thing that has happened to the franchise in its entire history.

Kindest sir, I am not alone in the belief that the Timeless Child subtracted from and even destroyed the mystique that The Doctor has had since ...

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Doctor Who needs a hard and fresh return to the franchise that that we know and love, above and away from the mess of the Thirteenth Doctor era (which if we’re going to be honest really can’t be pinned on Jodie Whittaker, she was just working with some really bad material).

I don’t know if that’s what is coming in the next few months with the specials commemorating the show’s sixtieth anniversary (seems like just yesterday we were celebrating its fiftieth) but the pics and the new trailer that dropped over the weekend have me warefully optimistic.

The last time we saw The Doctor, she (ugh!) had regenerated – clothes and all – into a perfect facscimile of the Tenth Doctor, once again played by David Tennant.  However the showrunners seem to insist that Tennant is playing the Fourteenth Doctor.  Which means this is really Tennant’s fourth or fifth ...

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The announcement already came a year ago, that the Fifteenth Doctor on the British television series Doctor Who is going to be portrayed by Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa.  Now as things begin really ramping up for the show’s sixtieth anniversary in November, the BBC is showing its cards a bit.

Here is Gatwa giving us a glimpse of what’s to come:

Number Fifteen’s attire reminds me a bit of Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor.  The way he’s got his hand gesturing brings to mind the early photos of the Twelfth Doctor played by Peter Capaldi, or maybe Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor.  Gatwa’s Doctor looks like he means business, as if he’s saying “Okay, fun and games are over, let’s get down to brass tacks.”

Be mad at me if you will, but I’m very glad the Doctor is a man again.  No offense to Jodie Whittaker, but there is a ...

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I should probably preface what you’re about to see with something.  For the past few months, well…

There’s really no other way to put it: I’ve lost my interest in Star Wars.

I can’t finger any one particular reason why.  But what Disney has done with the franchise, what Disney has done period, is a major factor in that.  I find myself no longer able to support a company that apparently no longer desires me or my hard-earned cash.  It’s much worse than that even: Disney is now trying to rewrite and redefine history so as to advance an extreme leftist agenda.

How do I in good conscience, as a citizen and as a Christian, find myself able to support that?  I can’t.

Which makes what I’m about to post seem direly hypocritical.  But I think that this once, the good memories can take priority.  I mean, I ...

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It was released earlier today.  I’ve watched this trailer for Babylon 5: The Road Home at least five times now… and I am stoked.  It looks beautiful.  And it seems that they’ve done an excellent job at casting the voice actors for the characters whose original portrayers have “gone beyond the Rim” over the years.

(I’m hoping that we get at least one look inside Garibaldi’s quarters aboard Babylon 5.  Just to see if the painting of Daffy Duck is still there.)

Anyhoo… enjoy!

Babylon 5: The Road Home hits digital download, 4K, and Blu-ray on August 15th, 2023.

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I was reminded of something earlier today, and I can’t believe that this somehow slipped past the radar screen…

Last week, May 1st, was the fortieth anniversary of the premiere of the NBC television miniseries V.

That doesn’t seem possible.  It’s like it was only yesterday that creator Kenneth Johnson unleashed his nightmarish vision of fascism on a global scale.  The Visitors came to major cities across the planet, in fifty ships each three miles in diameter.  They looked like us.  They came from a dying planet and they needed humanity’s help.  They came in peace.

And it was all a damnable lie.  Their intent was to rape the Earth, seizing every precious natural resource.  And the fate of mankind?  Something truly horrifying.  Four decades later and the scene of all those humans in cold storage still sends a shiver up my spine.

It was a grand endeavor.  What ...

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I’m feeling some geeky gears in my gray matter starting to rotate like they haven’t in a VERY long time.

Babylon 5 – the single greatest television series that the Nineties ever spawned – is coming back as an animated film.

The show’s creator J. Michael Straczynski unloaded the news on Twitter earlier this afternoon.  More details are coming soon, including the movie’s title and release date.

I cannot emphasize enough how stoked I am about this.  Babylon 5 was like an extra few years of education on top of what I got in college.  The five-season story about that miles-long space station all alone in the night, the “last best hope for peace” in a galaxy rife with plotting and intrigue, shattered the ceiling both as a broadcast series and for what the medium was capable of giving viewers.  Had it not been for Babylon 5 paving the ...

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 …maybe I should give it time to still prove itself?

The Sandman from Netflix is attempting to pull off what most of us have deemed impossible: adapting the classic graphic novel written by Neil Gaiman, into a television/motion picture format.  This has been a project about a quarter century in development, going from one set of hands to another.  I’ve been a fan of the comic series for more than twenty years now, having bought the first volume about a week and a half after 9/11.  The Sandman was the literary escape I needed just then, and I’ve since read the entire series.  Heck, at one point I had every issue loaded onto my iPad.  

So I’m a real fan.  And I’ve been looking forward to seeing how it would fare as a Netflix series: arguably the perfect medium for an adaptation.

And now, having seen the first couple of ...

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On July 1st I was having a severe headache, that had persisted since the night before.  I went home early from work and took some medicine and quietly prayed that I would be feeling better soon.  Because I did not want to miss volume two of the fourth season of Stranger Things on the day that it had dropped onto Netflix.

I haven’t written nearly enough about Stranger Things on this blog.  Actually, I don’t think I’ve written about it at all.  When this is a series that for the past six years has absolutely arrested me whenever a new season has been released.  The first part of this latest season premiered on the same day as Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and having seen both of them in their entirety now, there is no question as to which is the superior show… and I say that being a hopeless lifelong Star ...

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