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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Googl Gemini reviews Doctor Who - Time Flight
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:37:18 -0000 (UTC)
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Kestral Gaian <kes@kesgai.com> wrote:
> On 13/08/2024 16:32, The Last Doctor wrote:
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>> The Doctor wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In article <v9fovu$3t7i3$3@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Kestral Gaian  <kes@kesgai.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 13/08/2024 14:22, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>> Time-Flight: A Disappointing Detour
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Time-Flight is a classic example of Doctor Who at its
>>>>>> weakest.A promising premise of a Concorde lost in time is
>>>>>> squandered by poor execution.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I will fight Gemini over this. Time-Flight is cheesy camp
>>>>> sci-fi at its best.
>>>> 
>>>> Not only that!  It full of intrigue and terror!
>>> 
>>> "Time Flight" full of intrigue and terror?! <shocked face>
>>> 
>>> Did we watch the same story?
>>> 
>> 
>> It is both intriguing and a bit terrifying that the Master is such a
>> bizarre weirdo that he wears a terrible disguise when he isn’t expecting
>> the Doctor and has absolutely no reason to be in disguise at all.
> 
> Anyone think The Master is the kind of character to make rational choices?

Fair point, but doesn’t make it any less bizarre.

>> It is scary to think that anyone would believe that a Concorde could safely
>> land or take off from surfaces that are just flattish, not flawlessly
>> smooth like a Heathrow runway.
> 
> Not sure how many times you've flown from Heathrow but let me assure 
> you, it's not flawlessly smooth.
> 
No, but it’s not the boulder strewn wilderness that is in the past in Time
Flight either.


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