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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 21h

I actually like all that Faction Paradox stuff and read it in preference to any officially licensed DW prose fiction.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 22h

Another reason why independent cinemas are the best.

The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh at night. The signage above the entrance reads RIP DIANE KEATON.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

Do you now own Sussex?

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

She sounds like Princess Anne on this.

Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

Same. It works really well in just audio. And at that age I absorbed and memorised every line, just as I imagine slightly older kids did with Python LPs. I knew nothing about the Beatles or the world at the time and laboured under some amusing misapprehensions for years after. (Che Stadium).

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

And another thing. That existing crack in the wall in the corridor outside is meant to be there. It was caused by the shuttle crash in the previous episode. K9 sees it as a weakness to exploit and gives it a little push to bring it down. This is the hill on which I will die.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

As a result it's incredibly weird. Even the eventual encounter with the nucleus is Dadaist. It looks like Sad Tony. John Scott Martin has seen Stuart Fell's one-clawed acting as Morbius's body and said "Hold my beer, although you'll probably spill most of it." It's fucking bonkers. I love it.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

And this space that the Doctor and Leela are in is, like the Matrix, semi-literal. That's not what a brain contains. It's an imagined projection of a brain and a mind. No one's head has a screen showing footage of ionic columns falling through space.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

And another more recent Holmes story also has a Part Three in which the Doctor lies on a table while fighting a battle within the mind. "The Deadly Assassin" had been repeated just two months before. Here, the Doctor even reveals his built-in connection to what must be the Matrix has been severed.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

"The Invisible Enemy" Part Three. I think of this as the least Robert Holmes driven of this season but he's all over it. A miniaturised Doctor and companion clambering around a surreal environment harbouring a threat that mustn't escape? This is as much "Carnival of Monsters" as "Fantastic Voyage".

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 1d

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

Lack, Stock and Two Peas In A Pod. (Simon Lack also very suggestive of Bob Symes, occasionally of Tomorrow’s World.)

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes, he was also convinced that Nicholas Smith (Mr Rumbold) and Frank Williams (The Vicar) were the same person. It was eventually quite annoying.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

I used to work with someone who thought that Linda Smith and Hattie Hayridge were the same person. He also thought that Hudson and Pepperdine were Mel and Sue.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

Up until it was recently pointed out to me, I've always believed that Su Pollard & Jennie Eclair were the same person.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

Last night's soul-crushing viewing was "Red Riding : 1980". Scant light relief came, whenever David Morrissey's character appeared, from shouting "Hello Jackie! Shalom! Wilson!"

David Morrissey sporting glasses and moustache causing him, at a push, to resemble Jim from "Friday Night Dinner".

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 2d

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip made a man who reportedly wanted to be a tampon made out of meat.
(“Time for an emergency question. Would you rather go on a date with a tampon made of meat, or only eat meat made of tampons for the rest of your life?”)

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 3d

I posted earlier about attempting a 5K Time Trial today. Some of you may find the phrase "5K Time Trial" unsettling, as did I. It's like one of those greco-latin bastard portmanteaus. (5K is, of course, the production code for "Nightmare of Eden", as any fule kno.)

Title card for Doctor Who adventure "Nightmare of Eden"

Title card for Doctor Who adventure "The Trial of a Time Lord"

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 3d

My 5K training plan directed me to run a "relaxed 5K time trial" today, at "95% of maximum effort". This must be some new definition of "relaxed" of which I was previously unaware. I gave it my best and managed the fifth fastest of my 82 parkruns to date, and my fastest since May 2022.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 4d

L-R: Dua Lipa, Dual Ipa

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve listened to this and it’s proper dead funny. Give it a go!

Dan Mersh @danmersh.bsky.social · 6d

You like chuckling don’t you? Well the first instalment of my new sketch comedy podcast with Kathryn Haywood is now available wherever you get your podcasts. 17 minutes of fun and there’ll be another one next week whether you like it or not. But you will like it. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 5d

Right. I’m in.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 5d

And clone Leela staying in the cloning cubicle and looking out at the camera but not saying anything or being acknowledged by any of the speaking characters is just gloriously weird. I audio-taped this at the time so can recite it, so all the oddities for me are visual like this.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 5d

The Doctors are all still men and the nurses and receptionists all still women. Surgeons are still indulgent and eccentric and everyone else is functional.

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Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social · 5d

Retrospectively, Marius' lab now looks like one of the partitioned off areas in the exhibition centres that were pressed into service as Covid vaccination centres. As he transfers the mini clones into the Doctor the episode is quiet for the only time.

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