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#39 Inferno (1970)

In this final episode, Ian escapes from the gladiator circus and the Doctor accidentally inspires Nero to burn down the city. Then—hang on, wrong Inferno.

This is the final story of the Third Doctor’s Quatermass-esque first season, but also the one that feels the most like the…

screencap from the Doctor Who story Inferno #doctorwho

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…against time to return to his own universe before the world he’s on literally burns up. Section Leader Liz and the Brigade Leader are reluctant allies who are often enemies instead, and the Doctor is largely on his own. This is the perfect cap to standalone season seven of gritty realism and epics.

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 32m

…Leader Elizabeth Shaw and the Brigade Leader. Our authoritarian counterparts are sporting goatees, but an eyepatch and an absence of facial hair. The Doctor’s main concern is that Stahlman’s project really is going to destroy the world, and the Doctor can’t stop it this time. Instead, it’s a race…

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…about excessive drilling. We’re here because in the middle of the story, the Doctor accidentally slips into a parallel universe, only just barely not leaving the frame story behind, as Stahlman is drill baby drill as well over here in fascist Britain. Drz Liz Shaw and the Brigadier are now Section…

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…show that came before and after it. The frame story of the murder at Stahlman’s drill site and the Primoids that were ince human before touching a mutating ooze is perfectly serviceable, easily fitting the themes of the rest of the season. But were not here for a cautionary environmental tale…

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#39 Inferno (1970)

In this final episode, Ian escapes from the gladiator circus and the Doctor accidentally inspires Nero to burn down the city. Then—hang on, wrong Inferno.

This is the final story of the Third Doctor’s Quatermass-esque first season, but also the one that feels the most like the…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 6h

The comparison in this episode of gen AI to plastic is so good and so intuitive.

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 6h

Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.

This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...

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This always happens: I had a great three-day board gaming weekend in STL this past weekend, and I had been looking forward to it for months. And now that it’s passed, instead of basking in the afterglow, I’m just hyperfocused on Geekway Mini, which isn’t even until January. C’est la vie. #boardgames

𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 22h

So great to run into Temple of the Dog in the wild.

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I played it for the first time this weekend. We got almost to the end of the game before the Federalist deliberately broke the city. Fantastic experience. Can’t wait to play it more and glad to have my own copy.

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It’s the best.

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What board games did I play in September?

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• John Carpenter’s The Thing
• 28 Days Later
• John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
• Let the Right One In

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#40 An Unearthly Child (1963)

It defies expectation, in the context of the rest of the show or entirely on its own merits. The Doctor, title character but hardly hero of his own show, is only in half of the story. There are no aliens, apart from the Doctor and Susan. The premise that sets up the…

screencap from the Doctor Who story An Unearthly Child #doctorwho

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…Chesterton, who is able to light a fire without matches and who takes the lead in rescuing the inaugural TARDIS crew. The Doctor drifts from antagonist to anti-hero; it’s hard to even call him a true hero by the end of this story, but he’ll get there soon when facing radioactive adversaries…

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…has to begin at the beginning of time. It’s a struggle without any support: no technology, no friends, and no historical background knowledge. Instead, the travelers must rely of innate survival skills and clever totems to trick and frighten their captors. The principle hero of the story is Ian…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…himself and his friends from captivity during a political struggle between the scion of the old chieftain and a hunter outsider from the other side of the mountains. This isn’t the norm for science fiction, but it’s appropriate that the beginning of one of the greatest science fiction shows ever…

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…wholly untrustworthy and cannot abide anyone revealing his existence, and he casually abducts the teachers to the dawn of civilization. Here the story contrasts itself. We go from the most fantastic technology possible to the Doctor acting as Prometheus, bring fire to cavemen as a bargain to free…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…scrapyard on 76 Totters Lane, where Susan mysteriously disappears and her grandfather secretively appears. There, Barbara and Ian accidentally stumble into the Doctor’s time/space machine, an unassuming blue box that’s larger on the inside and apparently the home of their star pupil. The Doctor is…

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…story is unlike anything else the show has done: two school teachers are intrigued by a student and follow her home. That’s hardly normal or professional behavior, and they know it, but the mystery behind this child is so, well, unearthly. So from Coal Hill School, we cross Shoreditch to the…

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

#40 An Unearthly Child (1963)

It defies expectation, in the context of the rest of the show or entirely on its own merits. The Doctor, title character but hardly hero of his own show, is only in half of the story. There are no aliens, apart from the Doctor and Susan. The premise that sets up the…

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…being brought forward to save everything.

Would broadly recommend all of these.

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𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 1d

…Gold, Black Adam, Elastic Man, Animal Man, the Question, Will Magnus, Steel, and several others, and they all intertwine with each other. The story is notable for NOT being about DC’s heavyweights, specifically Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, so it’s cool to see a lot of the minor characters…

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…basically in real time. It’s a narrative format I’d never seen before in the medium and it works really well. It’s also written wholly collaboratively by some industry all-stars, namely Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid. There’s like seven main plots going on, between Booster…

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