Forever on the Edge of the City
Well, that was a pleasant surprise, after the last, kind of weak, episode.
Last night’s episode of Doctor Who was excellent, a literal spine-tingler, literally. Having been a time-traveller all my life, and having had to wiggle my way out of a few paradoxes, of the Grandfather sort, but not the Grandfather Paradox specifically, I’m a fan of fictional treatments of the issues.
You could tell the Dad was a Star Trek fan, and that he’d seen ‘The City on the Edge of Forever’ enough times to get it.
I don’t remember a lot about the character dynamics in the old show, but I must say how I like them in this one. Like Battlestar Galactica, the people come across as people, not SF characters. I like Rose.
And, okay, yeah, Mickey was black, not South Asian.
PS, I was thinking of titling this entry ‘Civility on the Edge of Forever’ cuz everyone in the church was being so stiff-upper-lip and ‘their finest hour’ about everything…