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Jacob Licklider CR: The Suns of Caresh
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Trumpet player, Doctor Who fan, actual scientist I guess, and Cyclops. Has a comics podcast. He/him.

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The most recent taste in my mouth is a very specific type of bad anti-racism film, we really should just forget the Titans. #LastFourWatched
Recent activity Letterboxd screenshot featuring posters of Remember the Titans (2000), Demi Adejuyigbe is Going to Do One (1) Backflip (2005), Dark Star (1974), and Good Will Hunting (1997) scoring each 2.5, 4.0, 3.5, and 5.0 stars respectively
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories: Not a bad story in the lot. Highlighting different writers and directors is a particular strength of the set. Each episode plays on a different type of horror story which is particularly nice and avoids the issues of 1 hour Doctor Who stories because of how
Cover of Doctor Who: Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories featuring the TARDIS battered sitting on the beach in a fog.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Once again I'm a day late on this but this week's #StarTrek is Booby Trap, an episode with a perfectly well done A-plot and a B-plot that is basically 1980s romance tropes which haven't aged great:

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Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation "Booby Trap" of Geordi La Forge and Dr. Leah Brahms (giving Geordi a shoulder massage) on the holodeck.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Robert Shearman’s other #DoctorWho audio novelization is shorter but no less interesting. This is Jubilee:

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Book cover of Doctor Who: Jubilee featuring a crudely drawn Dalek exploding into bunting on a cream white background.
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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As I did with the adult side of Phase III of #StarWars The High Republic I have thoughts on the YA side with Defy the Storm:

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Cover of Star Wars: The High Republic: Defy the Storm, a group shot of the novel's protagonists surrounded by the heavily armored Nihil.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is an examination of grief through the eyes of the crew and a child playing out like a drama until there's an alien. This is The Bonding:

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Screenshot of Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Bonding" of Jeremy and Worf participating in the Klingon bonding ceremony, lighting candles.
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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My hot take in my #LastFourWatched is that Hocus Pocus isn’t all that great.
Letterboxd Recent Activity screenshot featuring posters from Clerks (1994), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Breakfast Club (1985), and Hocus Pocus (1993) rated 3.5, 4.5, 4.0, and 2.5 stars respectively.
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Rob Shearman has novelized two #DoctorWho audio dramas and I have some thoughts on The Chimes of Midnight:

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Book cover of Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight featuring a red clock on a black background.
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Halloween: Sea Smoke by: Jonathan Sims: Oh look, Jonathan Sims wrote a Jonathan Sims script, just toned down quite a bit to fit the general audience of Big Finish. There is part of me that wishes we would have let Sims go full works and the sound design and music from Big Finish mainstay Howard
Cover of Doctor Who: Halloween: Sea Smoke and Other Stories featuring the TARDIS battered sitting on the beach in a fog.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Strange Disappearance of James Phillimore by: Jonathan Barnes: The best episode yet, a transition episode that brings together this idea of the conspiracy between every case. This one also examines the idea of the innocents stuck in the middle in the case of Mrs.
Cover of Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Strange Disappearance of James Phillimore
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Bernice Summerfield: The Dalek Eternity 2 by: Alex Hewitt and Melissa F. Olson: The second release of the series and once again there is a clear stronger episode. Olson’s Oversoul is a wonderful little character piece examining what exactly Benny and the Daleks are doing this series in the setting
Cover of Bernice Summerfield: The Dalek Eternity 2 featuring a damaged Dalek, Benny, and a purple hued planet.
November 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society by: Jonathan Barnes: I wonder if this one was meant to be released near Christmas because it kind of feels like a Christmas special. It’s a direct follow up to the last one but a different case. It’s also starting to bring
Cover of Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society.
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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This week's #StarTrek is a great Prime Directive episode but also the #DarkShadows nerd in me also loves Kathryn Leigh Scott in it:

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November 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Operation: Vengeance by: Tim Trelor and Nicholas Briggs: Like Doctor Who and the Brain Drain there are some points in this audio where you can feel Briggs’ hands at work, largely in the first two episodes where it feels ever so slightly like there was some stretching of a single episode to two. A
Cover of Doctor Who: Operation: Vengeance of the Doctor and Brigadier in army uniforms in front of a glowing tank and French village.
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Music Hall Hearties by: Jonathan Barnes: A little mostly self-contained mystery that leans into the lighter tone of certain Holmes stories that I quite enjoyed. There’s some hints that Barnes is setting further things, Moriarity is behind a lot of the
Cover of Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Music Hall Hearties.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The War Master: His Greatest Trick: More of a rocky set, one of the stories was really handicapped by the fact that one of the stories explores what the previous set explored and just a lack of vision until the last story. The bookending stories are both the stronger ones of the set. The second
Cover of The War Master: His Greatest Trick featuring the Master surrounded by Daleks (on the ground and in the air), a burning planet, and Time Lord soldiers.
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Phase III of #StarWars The High Republic opens with George Mann spinning so many plates but it also works so well due to atmosphere and characters. This is The Eye of Darkness:

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Cover of Star Wars: The Eye of Darkness featuring Marchion Ro sitting on a throne in helmet, with yellow lightsaber
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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This week's #StarTrek The Next Generation is The Survivors. I decided to look at it through the lens of Beckett and write something slightly different:

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Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Survivors" of the two human elderly survivors.
October 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The War Master: The Grievance Bureau by: Lizzie Hopley: Entering a new era for the War Master with a different producer with one very solid opener. Okay it’s not the highest concept, the idea of creating a clone to take out a grievance I know has been done in science fiction before but for the life
Cover of The War Master: His Greatest Trick featuring the Master surrounded by Daleks (on the ground and in the air), a burning planet, and Time Lord soldiers.
October 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm - Part Two by: Jonathan Barnes: And the back half of this second episode is basically a bunch of reveals and further connections to Moriarty and Moran which is honestly good. It feels written as the back half to the first disc of a box
Cover of Sherlock Holmes Untold: The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm - Part Two featuring Dr. Watson on a foggy London street.
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Wicked!: At best this is a mediocre set. The first two stories desperately needed a third episode and the last just doesn’t work and feels like someone took a grab bag of RTD ideas and character beats and put them in this single hour with no regard for what’s being said. It was nice to hear McCoy
Cover of Doctor Who: Wicked! of Don Quixote on horseback, Ace, the Doctor, and the TARDIS in the snow.
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Redubbing and a really stilted guest cast holds back this week's #StarTrek from being on the same level of The Measure of a Man. This is The Ensigns of Command:

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Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Ensigns of Command" of Data in the center of several colonists attempting to convince them to relocate.
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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My #LastFourWatched we don’t need to talk about X-Men: Apocalypse, it’s bad. But the Roger Corman horror kick has been fun and I’m surprised A Nightmare on Elm Street has two sequels that are good.
Letterboxd recent activity featuring posters for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), The Premature Burial (1962), and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) rating them 4.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 stars respectively.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Backwards and in Heels by: Alison Winter: I think it took me so long to get around to starting this set is because it’s let’s just fill in the gaps of Ace’s earliest adventures in the TARDIS. It’s not a bad premise but the last Seventh Doctor set felt like an actual move forward for the Doctor and
Cover of Doctor Who: Wicked! of Don Quixote on horseback, Ace, the Doctor, and the TARDIS in the snow.
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Season 3 of #StarTrek The Next Generation opens with an episode that really can just serve as a baseline for what good The Next Generation looks like. Evolution is not the , but it is confident in its identity and what it wants to accomplish:

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Screenshot from Star Trek: The Next Generation "Evolution" featuring Dr. Peter Stubbs and Wesley Crusher sitting at the table in the ready room.
October 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM