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The Dead Planet

If you enjoy this post, feel free to shout me a coffee on Ko-fi! Let’s do a bit of demythologising here. This is The Dead Planet, and we’re going to trace how the first episode of this serial is a thematic outgrowth from The Tribe of Gum. This cross-serial thematic cohesion is truly what makes… Read More The Dead Planet

August 9, 2019January 19, 2022 B J O'Shea27 Comments

The Tribe of Gum

If you enjoy this post, feel free to shout me a coffee on Ko-fi! I ended my previous entry, which covered the first episode of Doctor Who (“An Unearthly Child”), by raising two critical concepts—Darko Suvin’s “novum” and Bertolt Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt (V-Effekt). I used these models to try and understand what that episode’s final act… Read More The Tribe of Gum

August 2, 2019January 19, 2022 B J O'Shea20 Comments

An Unearthly Child

If you enjoy this post, feel free to shout me a coffee on Ko-fi! It is November 23, 1963. The president of the United States, John F Kennedy, was shot the previous afternoon at 12.30PM local time in Dallas, Texas. Across an ocean, in the United Kingdom, there has been relentless news coverage of this… Read More An Unearthly Child

July 29, 2019January 19, 2022 B J O'Shea17 Comments

Eh? Doctor Who?: A Brief History of William Hartnell

William Hartnell, a wiry man with a twinkle in his eye, walks through the yard of a scrap merchant’s. A cloak hangs from his shoulders, and a fur karakul perches itself atop a head of long, silver hair. He walks through the set of “An Unearthly Child”, the first episode of a new science fiction… Read More Eh? Doctor Who?: A Brief History of William Hartnell

July 24, 2019January 17, 2022 B J O'Shea2 Comments

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