Jacob Licklider CR: Defy the Storm
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Trumpet player, Doctor Who fan, actual scientist I guess, and Cyclops. Has a comics podcast. He/him.
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This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is an examination of grief through the eyes of the crew and a child playing out like a drama until there's an alien. This is The Bonding:
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November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is an examination of grief through the eyes of the crew and a child playing out like a drama until there's an alien. This is The Bonding:
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My hot take in my #LastFourWatched is that Hocus Pocus isn’t all that great.
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My hot take in my #LastFourWatched is that Hocus Pocus isn’t all that great.
Rob Shearman has novelized two #DoctorWho audio dramas and I have some thoughts on The Chimes of Midnight:
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November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Rob Shearman has novelized two #DoctorWho audio dramas and I have some thoughts on The Chimes of Midnight:
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Halloween: Sea Smoke by: Jonathan Sims: Oh look, Jonathan Sims wrote a Jonathan Sims script, just toned down quite a bit to fit the general audience of Big Finish. There is part of me that wishes we would have let Sims go full works and the sound design and music from Big Finish mainstay Howard
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Halloween: Sea Smoke by: Jonathan Sims: Oh look, Jonathan Sims wrote a Jonathan Sims script, just toned down quite a bit to fit the general audience of Big Finish. There is part of me that wishes we would have let Sims go full works and the sound design and music from Big Finish mainstay Howard
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Strange Disappearance of James Phillimore by: Jonathan Barnes: The best episode yet, a transition episode that brings together this idea of the conspiracy between every case. This one also examines the idea of the innocents stuck in the middle in the case of Mrs.
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Strange Disappearance of James Phillimore by: Jonathan Barnes: The best episode yet, a transition episode that brings together this idea of the conspiracy between every case. This one also examines the idea of the innocents stuck in the middle in the case of Mrs.
Bernice Summerfield: The Dalek Eternity 2 by: Alex Hewitt and Melissa F. Olson: The second release of the series and once again there is a clear stronger episode. Olson’s Oversoul is a wonderful little character piece examining what exactly Benny and the Daleks are doing this series in the setting
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Bernice Summerfield: The Dalek Eternity 2 by: Alex Hewitt and Melissa F. Olson: The second release of the series and once again there is a clear stronger episode. Olson’s Oversoul is a wonderful little character piece examining what exactly Benny and the Daleks are doing this series in the setting
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society by: Jonathan Barnes: I wonder if this one was meant to be released near Christmas because it kind of feels like a Christmas special. It’s a direct follow up to the last one but a different case. It’s also starting to bring
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society by: Jonathan Barnes: I wonder if this one was meant to be released near Christmas because it kind of feels like a Christmas special. It’s a direct follow up to the last one but a different case. It’s also starting to bring
This week's #StarTrek is a great Prime Directive episode but also the #DarkShadows nerd in me also loves Kathryn Leigh Scott in it:
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November 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This week's #StarTrek is a great Prime Directive episode but also the #DarkShadows nerd in me also loves Kathryn Leigh Scott in it:
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Operation: Vengeance by: Tim Trelor and Nicholas Briggs: Like Doctor Who and the Brain Drain there are some points in this audio where you can feel Briggs’ hands at work, largely in the first two episodes where it feels ever so slightly like there was some stretching of a single episode to two. A
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Operation: Vengeance by: Tim Trelor and Nicholas Briggs: Like Doctor Who and the Brain Drain there are some points in this audio where you can feel Briggs’ hands at work, largely in the first two episodes where it feels ever so slightly like there was some stretching of a single episode to two. A
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Music Hall Hearties by: Jonathan Barnes: A little mostly self-contained mystery that leans into the lighter tone of certain Holmes stories that I quite enjoyed. There’s some hints that Barnes is setting further things, Moriarity is behind a lot of the
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Music Hall Hearties by: Jonathan Barnes: A little mostly self-contained mystery that leans into the lighter tone of certain Holmes stories that I quite enjoyed. There’s some hints that Barnes is setting further things, Moriarity is behind a lot of the
The War Master: His Greatest Trick: More of a rocky set, one of the stories was really handicapped by the fact that one of the stories explores what the previous set explored and just a lack of vision until the last story. The bookending stories are both the stronger ones of the set. The second
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The War Master: His Greatest Trick: More of a rocky set, one of the stories was really handicapped by the fact that one of the stories explores what the previous set explored and just a lack of vision until the last story. The bookending stories are both the stronger ones of the set. The second
Phase III of #StarWars The High Republic opens with George Mann spinning so many plates but it also works so well due to atmosphere and characters. This is The Eye of Darkness:
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October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Phase III of #StarWars The High Republic opens with George Mann spinning so many plates but it also works so well due to atmosphere and characters. This is The Eye of Darkness:
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This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is The Survivors. I decided to look at it through the lens of Beckett and write something slightly different:
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October 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is The Survivors. I decided to look at it through the lens of Beckett and write something slightly different:
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The War Master: The Grievance Bureau by: Lizzie Hopley: Entering a new era for the War Master with a different producer with one very solid opener. Okay it’s not the highest concept, the idea of creating a clone to take out a grievance I know has been done in science fiction before but for the life
October 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The War Master: The Grievance Bureau by: Lizzie Hopley: Entering a new era for the War Master with a different producer with one very solid opener. Okay it’s not the highest concept, the idea of creating a clone to take out a grievance I know has been done in science fiction before but for the life
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm - Part Two by: Jonathan Barnes: And the back half of this second episode is basically a bunch of reveals and further connections to Moriarty and Moran which is honestly good. It feels written as the back half to the first disc of a box
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm - Part Two by: Jonathan Barnes: And the back half of this second episode is basically a bunch of reveals and further connections to Moriarty and Moran which is honestly good. It feels written as the back half to the first disc of a box
Wicked!: At best this is a mediocre set. The first two stories desperately needed a third episode and the last just doesn’t work and feels like someone took a grab bag of RTD ideas and character beats and put them in this single hour with no regard for what’s being said. It was nice to hear McCoy
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Wicked!: At best this is a mediocre set. The first two stories desperately needed a third episode and the last just doesn’t work and feels like someone took a grab bag of RTD ideas and character beats and put them in this single hour with no regard for what’s being said. It was nice to hear McCoy
Redubbing and a really stilted guest cast holds back this week's #StarTrek from being on the same level of The Measure of a Man. This is The Ensigns of Command:
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October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Redubbing and a really stilted guest cast holds back this week's #StarTrek from being on the same level of The Measure of a Man. This is The Ensigns of Command:
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My #LastFourWatched we don’t need to talk about X-Men: Apocalypse, it’s bad. But the Roger Corman horror kick has been fun and I’m surprised A Nightmare on Elm Street has two sequels that are good.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My #LastFourWatched we don’t need to talk about X-Men: Apocalypse, it’s bad. But the Roger Corman horror kick has been fun and I’m surprised A Nightmare on Elm Street has two sequels that are good.
Backwards and in Heels by: Alison Winter: I think it took me so long to get around to starting this set is because it’s let’s just fill in the gaps of Ace’s earliest adventures in the TARDIS. It’s not a bad premise but the last Seventh Doctor set felt like an actual move forward for the Doctor and
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Backwards and in Heels by: Alison Winter: I think it took me so long to get around to starting this set is because it’s let’s just fill in the gaps of Ace’s earliest adventures in the TARDIS. It’s not a bad premise but the last Seventh Doctor set felt like an actual move forward for the Doctor and
Season 3 of #StarTrek The Next Generation opens with an episode that really can just serve as a baseline for what good The Next Generation looks like. Evolution is not the , but it is confident in its identity and what it wants to accomplish:
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October 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Season 3 of #StarTrek The Next Generation opens with an episode that really can just serve as a baseline for what good The Next Generation looks like. Evolution is not the , but it is confident in its identity and what it wants to accomplish:
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My #LastFourWatched includes a Stephen King adaptation that made me laugh at objectively horrific things, John Carpenter dripping atmosphere, and some fun B movies.
October 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
My #LastFourWatched includes a Stephen King adaptation that made me laugh at objectively horrific things, John Carpenter dripping atmosphere, and some fun B movies.
The Last Days of the Powell Estate by: Timothy X Atack: The second Ninth Doctor/Rose story from Big Finish is great. It’s a little slice of horror, clearly meant to be part of a box set linked by the Powell Estate which weakens it slightly because it’s a little odd coming immediately after Snare,
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Last Days of the Powell Estate by: Timothy X Atack: The second Ninth Doctor/Rose story from Big Finish is great. It’s a little slice of horror, clearly meant to be part of a box set linked by the Powell Estate which weakens it slightly because it’s a little odd coming immediately after Snare,
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm - Part One by: Jonathan Barnes: The first episode of an eight part serial is almost entirely setup involving the Prime Minister seeking out Watson in 1913, connections to The Final Problem, characters with very Victorian names, and the
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm - Part One by: Jonathan Barnes: The first episode of an eight part serial is almost entirely setup involving the Prime Minister seeking out Watson in 1913, connections to The Final Problem, characters with very Victorian names, and the
Unlike Rage, The Long Walk is a book by Stephen King that feels more raw and sophisticated. It works because despite it being a novel by someone at the beginning of his career, he has something to say:
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October 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Unlike Rage, The Long Walk is a book by Stephen King that feels more raw and sophisticated. It works because despite it being a novel by someone at the beginning of his career, he has something to say:
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I found a copy of The Bachman Books at my library that included Rage and I had thoughts. Mainly that the controversy is more interesting than the novella itself:
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October 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I found a copy of The Bachman Books at my library that included Rage and I had thoughts. Mainly that the controversy is more interesting than the novella itself:
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