The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

Furthermore, if you have read the comments after my last Doctor Who review, the following will probably still not make very much sense to y...

Please Stand For The National Anthem

Here's the problem. If the Rings of Akhaten had been a Tom Baker four-parter, we would have quite liked it at the time and now think th...

What the internet says C.S Lewis said "Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose." C.S Lewis "Do not ...

"Play it fucking loud." Bob Dylan

And who am I who dares to keep His head held high while millions weep? Why the exception to the rule? Opportunist? Traitor? Fool? Or jus...

Who Remembered Hills (1) Who Remembered Hills (2) Who Remembered Hills (3) Who Remembered Hills (4) Who Remembered Hills (5) Who Rememb...

Okay, let's take this very slowly.  1:  In pantomimes, the baddie is often called "the Witch" or indeed "the wicked...

Actually, "dissent" is completely the wrong word. The overwhelming majority of people either hated her guts or else are totally in...

I don't think it is particularly funny, and I think that there are better ways of showing dissent. But I take it for granted that when a...

If she were (as those who knew who said she would have wished) having a quiet, private funeral in a   dignified location, attended only by ...

People sometimes say that something is "so bad it's good", but that's hardly ever true. Plan Nine From Outer Space, ofte...

Everyone knows that, on December 25th 1965, in the seventh episode of The Dalek Master Plan, William Hartnell "broke the fourth wall...

Nothing is more ungentlemanly than Exaggeration, causing needless pain, It's worse than spitting, and it stamps a man Deservedly with ot...

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...

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...