Sam leaps into Karen Connors, a young remedial education teacher in the late 1960s. As Karen, a white woman, Sam attempts to connect to an inner city classroom, and in particular to a troubled young man named Randy, in Memphis. As Sam realises that the historical day of…
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Like many who are commenting about this movie, I love the character Superman. In comics, he’s been one of my favorite characters since the John Byrne-helmed Man of Steel reboot from the late 80s, but my enjoyment of the character goes back a lot further than that. I…
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Last month was June, and amongst other things it was my birthday! I enjoy my birthday in general and had a good time this year as well. A big highlight are the cards from my family. It’s a bit of a thing for us that most people draw…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, and for the last number of years I’ve been making irregular progress on revisiting all of the old episodes. Most recently I was watching my way through the so-called “Black Guardian trilogy”–Mawdryn Undead and Terminus. It was my plan to finish…
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This page is a record of all the times and places that Dr. Sam Beckett has been to in his five seasons of televised time-travel adventures on Quantum Leap. It’s now complete for the TV series, though I hope to be adding to it from the spin-off…
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It’s taking a lot for me to get my head together about The Reality War, the conclusion to the latest (and according to some rumors, maybe the last) season of Doctor Who. It’s confusing to write about because the episode is just all over the place in so…
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This has been a challenging post to get into because from memory, I basically haven’t watched or read anything this past May. Is that really true? Have I watched nothing? How is that possible? Well, one thing is that my back is a lot better than it was…
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Wish World, the penultimate episode of this latest season of Doctor Who, written by show runner Russell T. Davies, came out a few weeks ago, and it’s taken me a while to figure out how to write about it. It’s the first part of the season’s two-part finale,…
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Today is May 21st, and just recently to my shock I realized that this was the 141st day of the year. That means it’s time (due to my arbitrary once every 47 days schedule) to revisit my stated list of viewing goals for 2025 and see how I’m…
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In only a few hours, Wish World will drop on Disney+ here in Australia, bringing the half of the current Doctor Who season finale to our screens and revealing, one presume, just what has gone so wrong on May 24, 2025 that leads to the earth being destroyed.…
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