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Jamie Beckwith

@terriblezodin.bsky.social

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One half of the team behind The Terrible Zodin fanzine, Yes Virginia, This is a Podcast and Black Archive: A Christmas Carol http://doctorwhottz.blogspot.com https://m.soundcloud.com/user-420543381/sets/yes-virginia-this-is-a-podcast

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 13h

Ha I didn’t even spot that! Love the idea of someone coming to the front desk and handing a stray cat to Reg Hollis but actually it’s a bomb!

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 13h

Ah yes in that case yes you’re thinking about Chief Insp. Conway.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 14h

In the movie? Cuz in The Bill Brownlow retires.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 16h

Whatever your opinion on zoos (and I think it’s possible to have a nuanced opinion on them) clickbait headlines to make you infer animal cruelty is just a form of emotional manipulation for clicks and also leave the army of non clickers confident that wild animals are in distress

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 16h

Right now there’s a news story circulating about gorillas in an abandoned zoo. Except the zoo isn’t “abandoned”, it’s closed to the public. The gorillas haven’t been left there to starve and die which is what abandoned would imply, they continue to be cared for, they‘re just not gawked at

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 17h

I honestly think clickbait is one of the worst things about current society. The media illiteracy of so many people who read a distorted headline, fill in the story with their preconceived prejudices and then believe they’ve read a whole story confirming said prejudices.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 18h

I think that’s likely yeah

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

Fair.

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

Sure and I think the TV show should always take priority so I get why they did a regeneration. I just don’t agree with the many clickbait sites making out that Sherman was make a blanket hate statement about the current show rather than a nuanced point about the expanded universe potential

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

Of course. And if that had happened I imagine he’d make the same comment as his point was at least McCoy and then McGann vworp vworped off to the unknown in a way which meant they could still be a current face for continuing adventures.

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

Doctor Who’s future is unknown. I do think it will come back one day. But be honest, if it was announced today it’s been recommissioned the earliest possible realistic transmission date for that is Christmas Day 2026

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

* Ok the wrong way is claiming your way is the only way and other fans who don’t do it your way are wrong. But that’s a vocal minority of gatekeepers which sadly exists in a lot of fandoms

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

I’m a Doctor Who fan of nearly 40 years and I don’t even buy every novel and Big Finish. The reason isn’t lack of interest so much as lack of finance and storage space. And even if it ewe lack of interest, that would be ok, there’s no right or wrong way* to be a fan

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

You might buy the first one out of curiosity but then what? Only the most wallet full completist fan would go beyond that. The general public certainly won’t. I don’t think that’s a controversial thing to say. Not everyone who watches Doctor Who on telly buys the novels and Big Finish

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know the guy but it definitely feel like people are talking Rob Sherman’s comments out of context. He said with literally nothing to base expanded universe material with the Billie Piper Doctor on other than two words “Oh hello”. I see his point. Would you buy a Sixteenth Doctor novel?

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

@adigoesswimming.bsky.social ^ 2024’s reviews

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

But there’s still half a month to go and we’ve got a few things in the calendar (including an Edgar Allan Poe silent film festival) so it may pick up! Next year I guess we can try Netflix or old school physical media

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

2025 has been a bit of a wash out so far, not so much in terms of film quality but in having time to watch movies and with the unreliability of the Prime app which keeps crashing (as well as our own general dissatisfaction with having to pay Amazon so we can watch Shudder)

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

Although Tigers Are Not Afraid was my favourite of 2024’s crop it was very very close to a three way tie with Blood Quantum and Saloum

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

…Apparently test audiences didn’t like the more faithful to the novel ending so we get a chase through fairly convincing streets of Paris.

Film poster for the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera which shows the Phantom swimming through the waters deep beneath the Paris Opera House

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

…. All the set pieces you’d expect are here from the beginning - The chandelier, the Red Death masque, the labyrinth layers beneath the opera house and the Phantom’s unmasking. Lon Chaney plays Erik in a make up which with our modern eyes is given far too much screen time but is suitably creepy…

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Tinted so that the film is presented in reds and blues which work very well, this is the textbook earliest surviving adaptation of Leroux’s novel…

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

A Nightmare Wakes (222) - Mary Shelley has a mental breakdown as she writes Frankenstein and it’s utterly boring.

Movie poster for A Nightmare Wakes which is a stylised image of Mary Shelley

Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

Suspiria (1977) - It looks amazing (who knew being torn to shreds as you’re pushed through a skylight could be so beautiful). It sounds terrifying, the discordant cacophony is the real star of the film. Plot wise though it’s quite meh.

Movie poster for the original 1977 Suspiria. It’s a lurid stylised image
of a woman standing in a pool of blood

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Jamie Beckwith @terriblezodin.bsky.social · 2d

…A tale of mercenaries holed up in a small resort after their helicopter is shot down, has a creepy atmosphere throughout as supernatural spectres haunt just outside your eye-line in this tale of revenge

Movie poster for Saloum which is a stylised images of a hand clasping a gun

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