The Hand of Fear

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Doctor Whordle 19 5/6

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https://louiseadennis.github.io/doctor-whordle

Hmm @louiseadennis is this a main enemy/monster or have your criteria changed?  

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Doctor Whordle 6 4/6

This has gotten much harder with the move to six letters. I really think this change should've been telegraphed a bit and maybe a completely new app created so that the stats could start again. Might even need an additional guess.

It's amazing how much more difficult it is to put yourself into six-letter mode.

Cc @louiseadennis

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281. The Space Museum (1965)
Classic season 2, starring William Hartnell (the Doctor), Jacqueline Hill (Barbara), William Russell (Ian) and Maureen O'Brien (Vicki).

Some very odd things are happening to our travellers. Their normal clothes have mysteriously appeared around them, replacing their costumes from the previous story. A dropped shattered glass falls back up into Vicki's hand and re-forms. When they leave the ship, they leave no footprints in the sand. And the inhabitants of the strange space museum walk right past them as though they're invisible. So when they turn a corner and run into themselves as motionless, unseeing exhibits, it's perhaps not necessarily the strangest thing to happen to them that morning.

It's a great first episode. Brilliant even. The tension ramps up remarkably throughout and when the revelation comes that the Tardis has jumped a time track, which suddenly jumps right back, the anticipation for the rest of the story is palpable.

And then the rest of the story happens. What a let-down. A very dull run-around sees the Tardis crew help a bunch of rebels overcome their masters. Their masters are depicted as being utterly bored by their experiences, and it comes over so well that unfortunately it rubbed off on me as a viewer.

I must say though: "Have any arms fallen into Xeron hands?" is a line that will live long in the memory.

#PlanetOfTheListOfFear #DoctorWho

282. The Wheel in Space (1968)
Classic season 5, starring Patrick Troughton (the Doctor), Frazer Hines (Jamie) and Wendy Padbury (Zoe).

The TARDIS lands inside a rocket, and is promptly disabled to the state of a mere empty police box. The rocket docks with a space station called the Wheel. The Wheel soon comes under threat from an army of - well, a group of - OK, two Cybermen.

Time to own up a bit here: this particular post has taken me weeks to write. I've made several starts and never quite been able to write anything particularly substantial. Why is this? The acting is... okay, and there's nothing especially objectionable about it.

Well, I can only think that it's because this is possibly the most boring Doctor Who story of all time. It takes six episodes to say and do almost nothing at all. The long sloping arc of the plot to the climax is so very slight as to be virtually indiscernable. The guest characters are utterly forgettable, with YET ANOTHER base under siege led by an irascible male commander.

If you can watch this story and not roll your eyes at the MacGuffin removed from the Tardis at the start of the story being used to resolve the plot at the end, well... you're more patient than I am.

It's hard to imagine how this can be from the same writer of Power of the Daleks and who script edited the show's first season.

#PlanetOfTheListOfFear #DoctorWho

Happy #TransDayOfVisiblity!

With Pete MacHale joining the #DoctorWho cast as the first #trans male, along with Yasmin Finney, a trans woman, Doctor Who has never been more diverse and inclusive!

Doctor Who has a long history of connection with the LGBT+ community, especially since it’s return in 2005, and long may that continue πŸ™Œ

(I may lose some followers with this post but trans rights are human rights )

#transdayofvisibility

At a 1984 panel show Jayne Country was apparently warned that Spike Milligan would mock her. Instead this happened.

SM:Its a marvelous thing about this age that somebody can do this and make it public
JC: without being arrested
SM: Its a great liberalism. A great age. It's almost like the age of pericles in Greece. Where somebody can do this and not be put on. I think its a good thing about society today, Im pretty glad for you.
JC: I was told before I went on that you might have a go at me.
SM: What a lie..... I was thinking of having it done myself

https://youtu.be/V0RGWcxMR9k

Spike Milligan,Jayne County,Janet Street Porter,John Sessions - Around Midnight. 5/10/'84

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I am feeling a bit better so I am posting this. I must forge ever onwards. Courage.  

#TransDayOfVisibility , #TransRightsAreHumanRights , #pnw
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility everyone! Solidarity with my trans friends and family.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Heading off to see #BillyBragg tonight in Brisbane. I would've been sharing the floor with the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese if I'd bought tickets to last night's performance, but oh well! I got to see that awful #BrisbaneLions #AFL showing instead. Yay.

Love Billy -- I think this is the fourth or fifth time I've been to his performances. Brilliant live!