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Television-watching (online)
May. 12th, 2025 01:15 pmEnjoyed this week’s Doctor Who, "The Story and the Engine," and its dive into Afro-Fantasy—is that the right term? I usually encounter Afro-Futurism, but this was set more or less in the present (2019 according to the Wikipedia entry), and the premise was definitely more on the fantasy end of SFF.
I did think it wrapped up a bit too quickly and neatly, but that was the fault of Nu-Who episode-format constraints, not writer Inua Ellams. *reads rest of Wikipedia entry* oh that mysterious kid they lampshaded was Capt. Poppy from the Space Babies episode? Which was also about storytelling. I hope they get back to that and that it wasn’t just a thematic shoutout.
Watched The Green Man (1990) on YouTube, which had three episodes to tell its M.R.James/sex-comedy/Fawlty Towers tale, and revelled in every minute of them. I still would’ve liked a final scene with the protagonist’s new-age-y daughter-in-law—since she’d been his confidante since Episode Two, I can’t imagine her not asking how his meeting with the ghost went, especially since the injuries to his young daughter must be known to the rest of the household.
I did think it wrapped up a bit too quickly and neatly, but that was the fault of Nu-Who episode-format constraints, not writer Inua Ellams. *reads rest of Wikipedia entry* oh that mysterious kid they lampshaded was Capt. Poppy from the Space Babies episode? Which was also about storytelling. I hope they get back to that and that it wasn’t just a thematic shoutout.
Watched The Green Man (1990) on YouTube, which had three episodes to tell its M.R.James/sex-comedy/Fawlty Towers tale, and revelled in every minute of them. I still would’ve liked a final scene with the protagonist’s new-age-y daughter-in-law—since she’d been his confidante since Episode Two, I can’t imagine her not asking how his meeting with the ghost went, especially since the injuries to his young daughter must be known to the rest of the household.
