The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Monday, April 08, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (8)

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But, of course, I left two rather important items off my list of things which I like about old Who. Let's add them now: Tom Baker...
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Sunday, April 07, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (7)

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It would be very easy to make a list of thing which Star Trek had in common with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Series of fifty minu...
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Saturday, April 06, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (6)

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So.  We have the people who, as Michael Grade put it, watch Doctor Who every Saturday like a High Mass.  We have the ones who watc...
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Friday, April 05, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (5)

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So what, in fact, do we like about it? A short list would surely go something like this: We like the Daleks. The Daleks are design cla...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (4)

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So, I suppose, we come to my approach, which is really a complete lack of an approach. If the second approach says "What does Doctor ...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (3)

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The   third approach has a lot in common with the second. It's also inclined to make the concept of "canon" incredibly wobb...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013

[The Bells of St John (7.7)]

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Doctor Who's greatest asset is Matt Smith, even if on a bad day, we feel that he could swap places with Sherlock and no-on would really...
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Who Remembered Hills (2)

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The second group treats Doctor Who as a kind of private religion: a Proustian umbilical connection to a collective past. You remember that...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

Who Remembered Hills (1)

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There is a very old joke which says that if you ask three different Christians a sensible question about their faith, you will receive four...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Cheap Shots, Number 23 In A Series

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The idea that Peter Jackson could direct an episode of Doctor Who is obviously ridiculous. The Hobbit is a small scale, rather gentle, leisu...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Footnotes

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1: No. I don't know why it is somewhat okay to say "Mark Twain uses the n-word in Huckleberry Finn" but not okay to say ...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Appendix to the Appendix

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i wrote a thing as a follow up to the thing that i wrote about the thing that i wrote sort of about language and bad words in the light of...
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