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Chris Baer
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Blogging about gaming, science fiction, and such.
New post in the Doctor Who Project, watching the Seventh Doctor and Ace unleash the "Silver Nemesis" on a bunch of hapless Cybermen while a noblewoman from the seventeenth century figures out temporal travel (with a little help from a certain Time Lord). #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Silver Nemesis
This is no madness. 'Tis England. For all of producer John Nathan-Turner's efforts to continually reinvent Doctor Who, he always understands the value of returning to what works, as evidenced by Kevin...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, fighting against fake smiles, an android made of nougat, and the overbearing saccharine of "The Happiness Patrol" with the Seventh Doctor and Ace. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: The Happiness Patrol – Movement Point
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October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, going back to pre-decimal days as the Seventh Doctor and Ace engage in some "Remembrance of the Daleks" in 1963 London. What could have been cheap nostalgia turns into one of the best stories in years to start Season 25. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Remembrance of the Daleks – Movement Point
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September 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New post on Movement Point, un-bagging the latest Advanced Squad Leader product from @multimanpublishing.bsky.social, Drop Zone: Chef-du-Pont, a tiny, tidy Historical Module that proves you don't need a hundred new counters to deliver a solid, fresh gaming experience.

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Bagged Bocage: Drop Zone: Chef-du-Pont (MMP) Released
A new historical module for Advanced Squad Leader, everyone’s favorite tactical simulation of World War II combat, typically lands with a thud, representing pounds of paper and cardboard that…
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August 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, seeking out the "Dragonfire" in the caverns beneath Iceworld with the Seventh Doctor, Mel, Sabalom Glitz, and new companion Ace. Instead they find a steady stream of barely disguised science fiction film references. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Dragonfire
Is any of this important, Doctor? World building can be tricky business, particularly on Doctor Who. Too much exposition, often from a writer in love with his or her creation, bogs down proceedings…
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August 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, going on vacation with the Seventh Doctor, Mel, and "Delta and the Bannermen" to a bright holiday camp in 1950s Wales. You know it's a special story when the man who talks with bees isn't the strangest plot element . . . #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Delta and the Bannermen
This is the real Fifties. For a series regarded as quintessentially British, very few moments on Doctor Who stand out as purely—which is to say, peculiarly—rooted in the British experie…
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July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, touring "Paradise Towers" with the Seventh Doctor and Mel, featuiring luxe amenities such as cannibals, color coordinated teen gangs, killer cleaners, and the disembodied brain of an evil architect. Nice rooftop pool, too! #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Paradise Towers
Build high for happiness. As befits a science fiction show, Doctor Who adorns its plots with scientific trappings, drawing on physics and chemistry and applied mathematics, both fanciful and real, …
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June 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, introducing Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, as he and Mel match wits with a giant brain and a renegade Time Lord (no, not that one) in "Time and the Rani." Beware, though -- shoulder pads abound! #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Time and the Rani
Where am I? Who am I? And who are you? As Season Twenty-Four of Doctor Who kicks off, we might as well be watching a different show entirely. Only nine months separate the end of the season-long st…
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May 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, examining Colin Baker's run as the Sixth Doctor. From a difficult regeneration to a surplus of carrot juice, the Sixth Doctor's time on screen, though brief, proves colorful if not always delightful, much like his coat. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Colin Baker Retrospective
There’s a tendency to dismiss Colin Baker as the “other” Baker to have been the Doctor, the one without the scarf, the one in a clown’s outfit. Such simplistic assessments s…
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April 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, finally reaching the conclusion of "The Trial of a Time Lord" and the end of the Sixth Doctor's run as our favorite Gallifreyan confronts "The Ultimate Foe," one so frightening it's a wonder he can ever look in a mirror... #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: The Ultimate Foe
Oh, no! Now I really am finished. It all comes down to this. After twelve episodes, spanning nearly three full months, “The Trial of a Time Lord” finally concludes with “The Ultim…
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March 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, as the Sixth Doctor invokes an event in his future, the "Terror of the Vervoids," to defend himself in "The Trial of a Time Lord." New companion Mel makes a bright debut, while the leafy Vervoids wilt in the spotlight. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Terror of the Vervoids
Is it going to be the Doctor’s defence that he improves? Doctor Who seldom actually toys with temporality itself, treating time, broadly, as a setting rather than a concept or plot device to …
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February 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New post on Movement Point, taking a look at the latest Advanced Squad Leader product from Multi-Man Publishing, ASL Journal #15. Don't let the Eastern Front setting on the cover fool you. This magazine-and-scenario bundle is for the fans of the offbeat.

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Esoteric Actions: ASL Journal #15 (MMP) Released
Not unlike some hackneyed box of chocolates, one never knows quite what will appear in an issue of Multi-Man Publishing’s ASL Journal, that irregularly released magazine-and-scenario product …
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January 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, continuing "The Trial of a Time Lord" as the Sixth Doctor confronts a version of himself he doesn't recognize, a "Mindwarp" to be sure. Peri regrettably departs and Brian Blessed's barbarian King Yrcanos steals the screen. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: Mindwarp
I endeavour to maintain a certain continuity. Continuity stands as the primary problem with Doctor Who by its twenty-third season. Long-time producer John Nathan-Turner and equally long-serving scr…
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January 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New post in the Doctor Who Project, starting Season Twenty-Three by sitting in the dock with the Sixth Doctor as "The Trial of a Time Lord" begins. He's accused of nefarious crimes on "The Mysterious Planet," which looks an awful lot like . . . Earth. #DoctorWho

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Doctor Who Project: The Mysterious Planet
I was beginning to fear you had lost yourself. Season Twenty-three almost wasn’t to be. In February, 1985, midway through the airing of Season Twenty-two, news broke that the BBC had pulled t…
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December 2, 2024 at 1:29 PM