Audio Review: Jago and Litefoot- The Spirit Trap

Victorian ghost tales have been a staple of our fictional diet since Charles Dickens released A Christmas Carol and the era of spirit mediums and spirit photography does provide a perfect setting to be used for such tales, making the era a prime setting when a tale needs to have a certain air of mystery and shadow.

  The third installment in the Jago and Litefoot audio series, The Spirit Trap delves into the unknown region of the afterlife and communicating with the dead as people seem to disappear after a session with Mrs. Vanguard, a spirit medium.

Soon Jago and Litefoot are once again on the case and they appear now to have great confidence doing so, as if as the series goes on they are investigating these strange occurrences more by choice than circumstance.

Audio Review: Jago & Litefoot- The Bellova Devil

 Out of all the words most commonly used in reviews and opinion on any form of entertainment, cliché is the most horrid and foul of all the words.

Cliche means that something has failed in the end product that makes it's concept seem petty rather than larger than life, that something was broken and never fixed and as such the media did not draw the consumer out into its world far enough for them to believe in what they created.

TV Review: Doctor Who- The Doctor's Wife

I feel so justified.

Sometimes I talk to my electronics, an eccentric little quirk I picked up from some television show or another, forget which one, and I am always getting eye rolls from my fiance, as it is not normal behavior apparently. Yet although we have the same model smartphone mine always seems to work better, something I attribute to the affection I give my machinery.

This of course is all ridiculous in the extreme, machinery does not talk back and does not perform better based upon the fact of it's user and that user's encouragement...or does it?

Neil Gaiman would like us to think about such possibilities as we step into the fourth episode of this series, The Doctor's Wife and it has to be one of the better episodes so far this year If not of the whole of the new era of Doctor Who.

It was indeed a fan boy's dream wrapped in a simple yet deep plot, one that saw many moments of joy, sadness and fear, and a very special old friend that we have known since the series began. This one goes all the way back to the very beginning and gives more insight into the mystery of the Doctor's origins.

TV Review: The Science of Doctor Who

Doctor Who's most unique qualities come from the shows initial groundbreaking concepts.

A spacecraft that is bigger inside then out, moves in such a manner that allows it to travel to almost any location in space and time. Much like Star Trek three years after Doctor Who's debut in 1963, early Doctor Who inspired a whole generation of geeks and science nerds.

However in terms of tone and characterization, Doctor Who more closely resembled the ideals, morals and true motivations of a scientific mind. Where Star Trek did champion concepts such as racial diversity it was still slightly tied into an overall military concept.

TV Review: Doctor Who- Waters of Mars

Sometime in 2008, it was decided that Doctor Who would take a small “rest” the following year for a couple of reasons. Not only would it give the audience a little time away from the show to appreciate it a little better, but it also gave star David Tennant time to work on other projects besides Doctor Who.

However, there would still be Who on television over the next year. It would consist of five specials, to begin with, the now annual Doctor Who Christmas episode on Christmas Day in 2008. Each special would feature a one-off companion and would climax with the end of Tennant's reign as the Doctor as well as final episode made under Russel T. Davies watch as executive producer.

TV Review: Sense8 "A Christmas Special"

Of all the series out there, Sense8 was probably the last I would have expected to have had a Christmas special. In fact, SF and Fantasy, in general, do not tend to go much for this sort of thing, probably thanks in part at least to the flashbacks all Star Wars fans get to the infamous 'Holiday Special'*.

Christmas specials are the preserve of quirky BBC comedies like Only Fools and Horses or The Vicar of Dibley, not a slick, hip, high concept SF series. For those that are not aware, Sense8 is the result of a collaboration between the Wachowskis (of Matrix and Jupiter Ascending fame) and ‎J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame).

Produced by Netflix, it follows the stories of 8 people across the world who become psychically linked as they try to discover why this has happened and what it means. The range of characters is broad - a Chicago cop, an Icelandic DJ, an Indian Pharmacologist, a German gangster, the daughter of a Korean corporate magnate, a San Francisco hacker, a Mexican film star and an African bus driver. In addition to the range of professions and ethnicities presented, we also have diversity in sexuality with one character being homosexual and another transgender.

Doctor Who: Two Missing Hartnell Episodes Found?

On New Year's Eve, a YouTube video was posted claiming that a poster on Gallifrey Base with the screen name of 'evil johnny' was saying that a friend he knew had a source in the know about the upcoming news that two William Hartnell episodes from the 1960's were found and if any parts remain missing they will be animated to complete the story.

The YouTuber goes on to say that this poster has some level of credibility as he has been right about such things in the past...

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