Lara S. Ramblings (The S Stands for Silly)
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Lara S. Ramblings (The S Stands for Silly)
@larasramblings.bsky.social
Film, TV and literature critic. Mostly the latter. Also mortal enemy of Tuesdays. A small fish in the Caspian Sea of media criticism. She/her.
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Why not ring in the New Year with the first Lance Parkin novel in some eighteen months or so? That's right, it's the Parkin novel from 1998 that everyone cares about the most: Beige Planet Mars. The Infinity Doctors? Never heard of it.
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Virgin New Adventures: Beige Planet Mars
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Why not ring in the New Year with the first Lance Parkin novel in some eighteen months or so? That's right, it's the Parkin novel from 1998 that everyone cares about the most: Beige Planet Mars. The Infinity Doctors? Never heard of it.
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Virgin New Adventures: Beige Planet Mars
Lara's Ramblings published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!
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January 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Said I didn't want to turn my last thread into the usual self-promo guff.
So anyway, it is now that thread.
Bunch of posts are up on the Ko-fi for early access, you can read 'em for as little as $5, you know the drill. Nothing is ever mandatory, but all support is appreciated.
December 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Oh hey, periodically remembered that my Bluesky exists, very sorry to have disappeared again.
So yes, the site has officially changed to Lara's Ramblings, but not in the URL because free WordPress plans just be like that sometimes unfortunately.
Anyway.
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Dale's Ramblings turns eight and Simon Messingham returns for the first time in nearly six years with Zeta Major. Join me on a fateful journey to the edge of the universe.
But will things be quite the same on the return trip?
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BBC Past Doctor Adventures Reviews: Zeta Major by Simon Messingham (or, “The Heart of the Anti-Matter”)
We’ve talked in the past about the ongoing paradigm shift in the custodianship of popular science fiction franchises, away from the hands of small cadres of writers largely concerned more wit…
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October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In the first part of the Dale's Ramblings eight year anniversary celebrations, the EDAs follow up Seeing I with a book that manages to follow through on its incredibly high quality.
Just kidding, it's a Gary Russell book instead.
Oh well.
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BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Reviews: Placebo Effect by Gary Russell (or, “Party Like It’s 3999”)
It’s April 1989. The Bangles are at number one with “Eternal Flame,” before handing off to Roxette’s “The Look” and Fine Young Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Crazy” for one week each, before Madonna tak…
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October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
OK so the Tumblr is back. Really don't know what that was all about. In all likelihood you may not have even noticed it was gone 'cause it only disappeared for twelve hours, but like... weird.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Woah hey.
So um.
The Tumblr just got terminated, for no reason I can readily discern. Also didn't get any kind of email saying "You violated XYZ part of the Terms of Service," which I would generally expect if that's what was up.
July 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I've drifted away from here again, sorry, gender introspection is no joke frankly.
Anyway. Updates aplenty inbound. Or at least two of 'em.
June 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The Jim Mortimore farewell tour enters its middle act, and the New Adventures turn out their final monthly instalment, as we pick apart The Sword of Forever.
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Virgin New Adventures Reviews: The Sword of Forever by Jim Mortimore (or, “The Bleakverse, Part VI: Templar’s Creed”)
This is the end. In a very specific and minimal sense, of course. Undeniably important and noteworthy, yes, but specific and minimal all the same. Ever since the release of The Highest Science in F…
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May 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Terrance Dicks returns to BBC Books for the first time since The Eight Doctors. But is Catastrophea a welcome return to form, or is its disaster-tinged name more apt than our writer could have known?
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BBC Past Doctor Adventures Reviews: Catastrophea by Terrance Dicks (or, “Nothing Serious, Nothing Political”)
The most surprising thing about Catastrophea is not that it exists at all, but rather that it took us this long to get around to it. We have, after all, been charting the work of Terrance Dicks thr…
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May 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Yeah no, I'm just going to pre-emptively say you really shouldn't try reading the Re:Generations review in one sitting when it comes out.
October 14, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Status report on the Re:Generations review.
Which all sounds fine until you realise I'm only one story in...
October 12, 2023 at 2:17 PM
One of these days I'll learn to stop making proclamations about how I'm going to take a break from reviewing. It never sticks.
Anyway, if everything goes according to plan, you can tune in for the Oh No It Isn't! review on October 24th, and Re:Generations on the DW 60th anniversary.
October 5, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Hannibal is really the darkest of dark comedy. Sorbet's plot could straight-up be reworked as an episode of Frasier if you cut out all the cannibalism and murder.
September 25, 2023 at 1:43 PM
No way, I'm here now! Will I do anything with this newfound Bluesky magic? Eh, we'll see, I suppose.
September 23, 2023 at 1:08 PM