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That’s the ticket! Thank you for sharing. I agree about Tolkien (apologies). I have mixed feelings about Who and HP and Firefly. But now I want to learn about the editor(s) of HP*, and what the heck this “Star Fleet” was. * re: HP, I thought the first three books were solid and fun. And I...

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Which 1e dragons though? They weren’t so standardized back then. Which was good

I love the floating crystal spines! The backward wings OTOH hurt my rational brain. The former are merely impossible. The latter seem, um, anti-possible?

I loved the Thieves’ World anthologies back in my teen/1e days. I should probably try to reread them. I lusted after - but couldn’t afford - the Chaosium game books then, and I’m still kicking myself for the time I declined to get them used in the 90’s. (I didn’t have any income at the time...

No, you must be mistaken. My video collection quite clearly delineates: everything made 1969 or before is categorized as “classic.” Everything from 1970 to present is clearly labeled “modern.” (Guess when I was born?)

I discovered Peter Gunn in reruns, about 10-15 years ago - and I love it! It’s the best old show I’ve come across this century. Moody, atmospheric, great soundtrack, and sometimes amazing. Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a close second-best discovery. Sometimes directed by Hitchcock, often...

To each their own. 🤣

She was great! I think it’s the only Joana Lumley performance I’ve ever enjoyed. And Jonathan Price’s Master was great. Wasn’t his name floated once or twice as a rumored/potential modern Doctor?

Sylvester is my second-favorite classic Doctor, so he got my 2nd vote after Tom Baker. I chose Chris Eccleston as my favorite modern Doctor. I found him an absolute joy to watch: funny and serious. caring and heartless. both alien and very, very ‘real.’ He was great when he had a great script...

In what I’ve seen of her episodes, I thought Jodie was a fabulous Doctor. But the stories were terrible. It felt a lot like like trying to watch Sylvester McCoy’s first series. But unlike Jodie, Sylvester was gifted some great stories, starting with his 2nd opener Remembrance of the Daleks.

I was a moody, lonely, desperate-for-sci-fi 11 year old boy when I came across Series 18, and found its preoccupation with entropy and decay absolutely riveting and revelatory. But Tom Baker hated that version of Doctor Who. And I like (i.e., desperately wanted to be) Adric. So judge accordingly.

My favorite iteration of Doctor Who is Tom Baker’s final series. I love Tom’s ominous moodiness throughout, and well pretty much everything else about that series (The Leisure Hive excepted). This is a guy who I believe has seen a universe of evil, and been fighting it for centuries. IMO.

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