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   From: mike@xenocyte.com   
      
   The Doctor  wrote:   
   > In article <1652039105.723484367.305585.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,   
   > anim8rfsk   wrote:   
   >> The Doctor  wrote:   
   >>> Someone help me out!   
   >>>   
   >>> Star Beast had more action then intrigue.   
   >>>   
   >>> WBY loks more Midnightish than interesting.   
   >>>   
   >>> How come Star Beast ranges a 7 on IMDB yet WBY ranges an 8 ?   
   >>>   
   >>> Am I missing something?   
   >>   
   >> Yes. Each of them is rated nine points too high!   
   >   
   > IYIO.   
      
   The Star Beast was familiar RTD territory - other than the need to resolve   
   the Doctor-Donna problem, it was an absolutely typical RTD fluff special   
   episode. Fun but not deep. It just won bonus points by comparison with most   
   of the past few years.   
      
   Wild Blue Yonder was /different/. Not brilliant and not given enough plot   
   to fill its hour - but it was science fiction. When was tha last time   
   Doctor Who had an episode built around a single, genuinely SF concept?   
   Aggie should have been applauding from the sidelines, but sadly his   
   fascistic obsession with race and colour over a marginal cameo led him off   
   into an insane rant of “woke degeneracy”.   
      
   Personally I didn’t think Wild Blue Yonder was better entertainment overall   
   than The Star Beast, but that final delightful swan song for Bernard   
   Cribbins was pure gold and worth 2 points on its own.   
      
   So 9/10 for me twice in a row. I don’t expect brilliance from Doctor Who so   
   I’m happy for it to be fun and coherent - factors that were somewhat   
   lacking in the Whittaker era.   
      
   Capaldi’s run managed it in Series 10 but 8 and 9 largely lacked coherence.   
   Almost nothing in the modern show, of course, has been as incoherent or   
   joyless as Sylvester McCoy’s TV tenure.   
      
   Now I’m off to listen to “Audacity” so that I’m ready for the 8th   
   Doctor’s   
   new Christmas audio box set “In the Bleak Midwinter” which was released   
   today.   
      
   --   
   “The timelines and … canon … are rupturing” - the Doctor   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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