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Previously on "Dr Who 2021 to 2022"

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    And so it begins.
    And so it ends, until New Year's Day.

    Baffled.

    It never used to be this complicated.

    Though, looking on the bright side, Berty Bassett wasn't in this one.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    Dr Who is written for children not adults.
    It's supposed to be family viewing and appeal to adults as well. Compare and contrast Dr Who at the time of the Sarah Jane Adventures. The latter was definitely for kids. They were quite different. (Although SJA was higher quality than the stuff Dr Who churns out now).

    Well written kids stuff, even on CBeebies, is eminently watchable by adults.

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

    Dr Who is written for children not adults.

    I know some children who enjoy it.

    Then again the don't really follow storylines at the moment....
    Chibnall writes for children. That's really the whole problem...

    But like a good pantomime they used to be written on two levels so us grown up children could enjoy them as well

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
    Mr Bean would be a Dr Who I would watch. Not Rowan Atkinson but actually Mr Bean.
    Other than that I gave up a few years ago when out of the entire series Capaldi had one good episode.
    Dr Who is written for children not adults.

    I know some children who enjoy it.

    Then again the don't really follow storylines at the moment....

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  • MyUserName
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    Mr Bean would be a Dr Who I would watch. Not Rowan Atkinson but actually Mr Bean.
    Other than that I gave up a few years ago when out of the entire series Capaldi had one good episode.

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  • NotAllThere
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    at qntm.org you can download free ebooks. Or you can buy on amazon. There is no Antimemetics Division is seriously disturbing.

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Ah, OK....

    I'm mostly using the SF Gateway Library, a lot of which is on Kindle. Anything of interest that isn't will go on the Christmas wish list

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post

    Don't recognise that one...
    https://qntm.org/

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

    Fair enough. qntm?
    Don't recognise that one...

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post

    I have. Clever ideas but zero atmosphere and I got bored. Nowhere near the likes of Banks or Bear for the story telling (aka "creating a universe" or "padding" depending on your viewpoint!) around that basic premise.

    Must admit I'm back to reading the Greats again - Heinlein, Silverberg and the rest. Now they could tell a story...
    Fair enough. qntm?

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post
    Must admit I'm back to reading the Greats again - Heinlein, Silverberg and the rest. Now they could tell a story...
    ^^^ This. Not too keen on Silverberg, but Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, Zelazny et al.

    Then again, I'd have to excavate some of those out of the garage.

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

    Try the Quantum Magician - Derek Künsken
    I have. Clever ideas but zero atmosphere and I got bored. Nowhere near the likes of Banks or Bear for the story telling (aka "creating a universe" or "padding" depending on your viewpoint!) around that basic premise.

    Must admit I'm back to reading the Greats again - Heinlein, Silverberg and the rest. Now they could tell a story...

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post

    Much prefer the Culture novels or almost anything by Greg Bear for extrapolative SF. But there are plenty of good old-fashioned "wild and woolly" SF novels out there, some of which are very readable if not particularly informative.
    Try the Quantum Magician - Derek Künsken

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post

    Many forums ban any sort of advocacy for illegal actions so NAT may, as moderator, be playing it clean.
    Where I live, torrenting is legal - so long as you don't upload.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

    Misery.

    I don't believe you don't have any torrent tools installed somewhere.
    Many forums ban any sort of advocacy for illegal actions so NAT may, as moderator, be playing it clean.

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