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 Both the Autobots and Decepticons need new leaders, but in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan the obvious suspects don't get the job. Instead SPACE Alan Sugar and the world's stupidest dinosaur are on the road to victory.
All as I celebrate getting a third of the way through the series with my look at: King of the Hill! Part 1.
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Another YouTube video, this time centred on the Doctor who seemed to have been purposefully created to provide a trick "How many Doctor Whos have their been?" trick question for pub quizes (in the days before Richard Hurdnall, John Hurt and two David Tennant's confused things). It's the Cushing Dalek Movies!  It's possible that Optimus Prime is having a worse day than Ratchet by dint of being dead, but it's a very close thing. Will the maniacal Mechanic's manipulations see him master of the Ark? All in my look at
Funeral For A Friend! Part 2.  Friday the 13th is unlucky for Ratchet as not only do his attempts to fix Optimus Prime totally fail, but he faces the greatest threat in Transformers history: The Mechanic.
Will anything ever be the same again? All in my look at Funeral for a Friend! Part 1. Plus, if you've not seen it, do check out the Survivors review that is the previous entry on the blog part of the site.  The original Survivors, or at least the season he worked on it, is arguably Terry Nation’s masterpiece. As far as I can tell there was no equivalent to Chris Boucher or David Whitaker ridding his back to make the scripts good (or in some cases just flat out rewriting them), it’s his pure undiluted talent and shows that he was capable of so much more than, to pick an example of a Doctor Who story he wrote about the same time, The Android Invasion would ever suggest.
Sadly his falling out with Terrance Dudley and resulting walking away from the show at the end of its first year is something it never quite recovered from. There are some excellent episodes in the final two seasons, but also a lot of dull filler and it never again regained that strong sense of purpose Nation’s driving force originally gave it. The Fourth Horseman is quite easily one of the best TV pilots of all time. So the current Big Finish revival had its work cut out, especially as it’s set alongside those early brilliant TV episodes. The first smart move made by the new team (led by producer David Richardson, director Ken Bentley and script editor Matt Fitton, who also kicks things off with the first script) is that the advantage of a disaster that affects the entire world is you’re not just limited to dealing with the characters of the series, you can show the fall of civilisation from multiple new perspectives.  It's the fall of the house of Megatron, and all the slight wobbling of the house of Furman as his attempts to make his nicking of the fight from this issue for Prey! look natural fall slightly apart.
All in my look at Gone But Not Forgotten! Part 2. |
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