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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box): February 2015
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box). Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Review: Doctor Who: The Scripts - The Masters of Luxor. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how to review 'The Masters of Luxor'. I mean, this is basically a discussion of a historical curiosity, a first draft of a script that wasn't deemed good enough to warrant a second draft, made for a production whose style of drama is now sitting comfortably at fifty-one years out of date. Is it even worth it to discuss the quality here? Nonetheless...
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box): Review: The Doomsday Manuscript
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box). Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Review: The Doomsday Manuscript. Originally posted to the Doctor Who Ratings Guide on 26 February 2003.). What turned this into the weakest novel Justin Richards has ever written, and a very unimpressive debut for the new Benny line? Benny's failure to put two and two together about Straklant utterly sinks this novel. Things I didnt like very much. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Pilgrimage: Doctor Who, One Episode at a Time. Its no g...
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box): May 2014
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box). Friday, May 30, 2014. Review: The Squire's Crystal. Originally posted to the Doctor Who Ratings Guide, March 6, 2003.). Unfortunately, the good folks at Big Finish neglected to include a warning label on The Squire's Crystal, and I'm quite worried that someone might get hurt as a result. Hence, I'm including the following as a public service: Simply print it out, and affix it to your copy. Lives may be saved as a result. Yes, that's the author's conscience speaking out.
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box): March 2015
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box). Friday, March 27, 2015. Then again, it's the same episode where Smithers suddenly says, "Hey, maybe I should have tested this new insecticide to see if it kills bees and earthworms! Maybe he leeched the intelligence away from Forester and turned him into a less competent villain.). Thursday, March 26, 2015. To "There's a person coming, scatter in every random direction and panic! To "Hmm, grains of wheat covered with a sticky substance! Sorry, I don't really pay much ...
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box): November 2014
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box). Sunday, November 16, 2014. The Warriors of Death. The Temple of Evil. But of course, it fails. It fails not just because of the arc of history, or because of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey reasons.it fails because one person can't change the entire course of a civilization with a well-timed "No! Monday, November 10, 2014. Review: Doctor Who - The Blood Cell. First, a bit of full disclosure- I pitched a Doctor Who novel. Not in any way you can pinpoint yet, but something ab...
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box): September 2014
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A Madman With a Box (Without a Box). Tuesday, September 2, 2014. The Sea of Death. It's definitely a case of everyone dancing as fast as they can, and it shows in the production design (there's at least one, if not two, laugh-out-loud special effects sequences). But it's also an episode that hits all the beats it needs to hit without lingering around, and it's about to do in six episodes what took Tom Baker a full season. Not too shabby for a rush job. Monday, September 1, 2014. And all the commerce from...
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