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Review of Lux by ankarstian

20 April 2025

It's so much fun and it fits perfectly in the 45-minute timeslot! I liked basically all of it, even the fan scenes. It's probably the best episode of RTD2. Mr. Ring-a-Ding is also very fun.

Also makes me want to see RTD cowrite something with Paul Magrs.


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Review of The Robot Revolution by ankarstian

17 April 2025

Honestly pretty fun. It is very fast-paced and my main critique of the story is that it could probably use a little room to breathe (though I think that might defeat the fun a little bit). Belinda Chandra is a pretty good companion and Varada Sethu is very good in the role. I do like the sort of classic sci-fi aesthetics of Missbelindachandra One and the whole "Planet of the Incels" thing is a bit funny. Overall, a pretty good start to the series.


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Review of Silver Nemesis by ankarstian

7 April 2025

Hmm, well. In terms of how it's filmed it's probably the worst of the McCoy era, if not late 80s Who. A lot of location filming that makes it look like a student film, and not a very good one. The writing's decent, not bad but also the plot could have had a few extra drafts. So, in terms of how this is made its really forgettable.

That being said, I like most of the performances - Lady Peinforte especially, I'd really like to see her in another story (if its able to capture her energy) - and I can at least understand what goes on at the end so it isn't the worst McCoy serial.


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Review of Delta and the Bannermen by ankarstian

5 April 2025

Honestly quite fun, though there is a bit of a tonal discontinuity with the very fun meat of the story and things like the space Wehrmacht blowing up an entire bus full of people. I do like most of the cast, though the American accents are (like basically always in the show) comedically bad.


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Review of The Face of Evil by ankarstian

5 April 2025

Quite good. This story and Planet of Evil have some of the best unkempt wilderness vibes of any televised Who story. Along with this, I quite like the story (especially when Xoanon becomes involved) and Tom and Louise are quite good as the Doctor and Leela while the supporting cast are pretty good. My main gripe is that the Sevateem's whole "warrior savage" thing is a bit racist.


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Review of Regeneration by ankarstian

1 April 2025

It's the greatest piece of media of all time. When K9 said "It's K9ing time" and K9ed over everyone and everything, I knew that God was dead and had died of joy at this piece of television airing. Thank you Bob Baker for letting us achieve pure intellectual and entertainment bliss for the whole K9 series.


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Review of City of Death by ankarstian

28 March 2025

Doctor, how very nice to see you again. Seems like only 474 years since we last met.

Probably one of the Fourth Doctor's best stories, it serves as both a cerebral exercise and a very fun romp. Most people probably know this as a Douglas Adams vehice but this one also has the presence of the very underrated writer David Fisher within it (if only because Fisher wrote the kernel called A Gamble with Time that eventually grew into this serial). All of the actors in this are also quite good.


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Review of Festival of Death by ankarstian

20 March 2025

Tarie walked over to the window. All she could see were the hundreds of spaceships and the marvellous, swirling majesty of hyperspace.
Though I don't like Jonathan Morris' overreliance on that line from The Aztecs about not changing one line from history, I think the first story that he used this trope (as far as I can tell) is one of his best. In fact, I think its one of the best Fourth Doctor novels in general. It's able to match the tone of the latter half of Four's era while also having a very good plot and putting in some menace and even making me feel for quite a few of the characters. I might put Managra or Krikkitmen over this one but it is very very good. Highly recommended.


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Review of The Genocide Machine by ankarstian

5 February 2025

Pretty good story from Mike Tucker (who I think is a somewhat underrated writer). I like a lot of the ideas used in this one though it might have went on a bit too long. Briggs does some of his best Dalek voices while the rest of the voice cast are pretty good.
Viewed this through Josh Snares' animation, which I think is a bit too reliant on real-world models but still quite impressive for something made by what I assume is one or a few people.


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Review of The Book of the Still by ankarstian

26 January 2025

Rhian mentally kicked herself for misreading the signals. She wasn’t very good at relationships; well, at least that’s what she said when explaining to herself why she hadn’t had any yet.
A good romp that's quite experimental. Tonally, this is basically like an adventure from the "RTD2" or "DisneyWho" era though its plot is the sort of thing Moffat would write. Though it only has like three original characters, I think they're all done pretty well. I genuienly want to see the Doctor meet Carmodi again (though I could say the same thing about Kopyion from The Pit). I don't know if its ideas and set pieces congeal together but I think they're quite good. Overall, pretty solid though maybe not the best EDA.


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