tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post2580976755242301852..comments2023-10-02T14:33:18.136+01:00Comments on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 3183: Mysteries of Doctor Who #20: How Do the Macra Evolve?Millennium Domehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-25707078765014954382009-09-19T19:51:55.498+01:002009-09-19T19:51:55.498+01:00Wonder World was nowhere near Poole, fortunately f...Wonder World was nowhere near Poole, fortunately for me. It was in Boscombe, then it was at the head of the High Street near the Post Office, then it was two doors down from Smiths. You'd have to admire their persistence if they still existed.<br /><br />I don't really think you can bring Kafka in to comment on The Macra Terror. The Sunmakers, more possibly.Nick Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618461043660129105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-72620594355293191602009-09-18T21:43:11.611+01:002009-09-18T21:43:11.611+01:00One of the many silly things about volume 1 of ...One of the many silly things about volume 1 of 'About Time' is that any attempt I made to argue that 'The Ark' was real and 'The End of the World' was also real got lost because my co-author has trouble with ideas like Relativity and has a bee in his bonnet about how his 'generation' supposedly process images differently from grown-ups.<br /> So how great 'Star Wars' was, his curious notion that people born after 1970 can jaunt using big belt-buckles and why 'readers' are evil got into print and my elegant exegesis on how the images being received by people in the 57th Segment of Time were somewhat delayed and that seven hundred years for them might be thousands of generations for people not on a fast-moving spaceship went the way of the sensible version of Dalek chronology. <br /> I can't see anything wrong with your theory except the old aesthetic argument that trying to link up every single story diminishes the very huge universe of the series and leads to horrible Eric Saward-style logjams.<br /> This sort of extreme Cartesian Dualism (I expect to see a series with that title on Discovery Turbo any day now)would, of course, be entirely in keeping with the whole Kafka thing of representing body-loathing with bugs - which is rather what Cho-Je suggests the Metebelis Spiders were. (I'm also thinking of 'Dark Crystal', as one does when unconvincing beetle-people attack - and that's going to be on the same channel immediately afterwards).<br /> The comic shop I remember from Bournemouth was halfway to Poole and only seemed to appear when you weren't looking for it. Still, that was in 1991 and I doubt it's still there. (But if it is, how would you know unless you get lost looking for a chemists?)Tathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00254989710798762675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-59706382982971041342009-09-18T14:38:33.227+01:002009-09-18T14:38:33.227+01:00Loved that too. More, more! A book, a book!
I tho...Loved that too. More, more! A book, a book!<br /><br />I thought you were going to argue, at one point, that the Doc has it wrong and the Macra we see in Gridlock are the original beast, and the Refusians just came along and possessed them in their bid to conquer/punish Earth colonies. But I’m guessing the dates don’t match up…<br /><br />Haven’t listed to TMT for years, actually…<br /><br />Hope you’re well, and have fun in Bournemouth! There used to be an absolutely ace comics shop there called Wonder World, where I bought many copies of DWM back issues in 199something, and got one of them signed by Colin of Baker himself. I think it’s gone now, and in any case, you don’t need distractions…<br /><br />xNick Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618461043660129105noreply@blogger.com