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Enjoyed 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.
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Date: 2025-05-12 05:49 pm (UTC)From:... that is a hell of a pitch.
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Date: 2025-05-12 06:28 pm (UTC)From:Also a gay atheist vicar, a drunken Cambridge boat crew with a taste for Andrew Lloyd Weber, and God all put in appearances.
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Date: 2025-05-12 07:24 pm (UTC)From:Okay, at least one of those was not a feature of the 1969 novel and sounds like a definite lagniappe.
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Date: 2025-05-12 07:23 pm (UTC)From:I'm familiar with the novel by Kingsley Amis, but not the adaptation, and that's an excellent sell.
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.
Fic!
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Date: 2025-05-12 09:13 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2025-05-12 11:57 pm (UTC)From: