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Posted by:
Jack Graham
4 years, 1 month ago
Phil and
myself are back with more episode commentaries, for '
The Ark in Space' this time.
Oh your lucky, lucky ears.
Download a zip containing all four episodes
here.
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In other audio news,
Holly B of
Comfortable Bohemian Elegance has begun a new podcasting project,
City of the Dead, which will cover all the Amicus films. She's accompanied by
James Murphy of
Pex Lives.
Here's episode one, covering the movie
City of the Dead (AKA
Horror Hotel) which features the late
Christopher Lee. It's a funny and thoughtful first episode, and the series looks well worth following.
It's really nice to see tabs like 'City of the Dead' and 'Eruditorum' and (of course) 'Shabcasts' appearing down the side of the
Pex Lives Libsyn page.
Kevin and James really are generous and encouraging coves who are coaxing great content out of great people... and even some passable content out of me! Long may they continue.
Posted by:
Jack Graham
6 years, 6 months ago
From the October 2011 issue of Panic Moon
. As ever, lightly edited and titivated... 'cos I just can't help tinkering.When
Doctor Who talks about evolution, it doesn’t usually bother getting the facts right. 'Evolution of the Daleks', for instance, seems to think species change when genes mutate morally because of lightning bolts. Such ideas go right back to 'The Daleks', in which the two races on Skaro have changed totally in mere “hundreds of years” of mutation, with the warrior Thals becoming natural pacifists in the process. (Incidentally, it’s ironic that this supposedly anti-Nazi parable speaks of blonde, blue-eyed, athletic specimens as “refined” and “perfect”.)
Real evolution does involve mutations, but they’re not sudden and drastic as depicted in, to pick another example, 'The Mutants'. Instead we’re talking about tiny replication errors in genetic code which are preserved or rejected by natural selection, leading to big changes over very long periods. This creates staggering variety on our planet alone. However, most aliens in the
Doctor Who universe look like British actors, which (accidentally) implies that the humanoid shape is a universal pinnacle or goal of evolution. ...
