RD I–”Waiting for God”, or David Ex Machina

First off, today is my birthday. Let joy be unconfined, and let there be feasting and worldwide celebration, and ice cream cake. I’m already doing that right now, with some classic Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee’s “The Time Monster”, featuring Robert Delgado’s excellent turn as the Master (it’s so hard to find someone who can play an unmitigated bastard so well). Have I mentioned that Jon Pertwee’s Doctor is marvelous? That whole era of Who is chockablock with energetic, somewhat campy fun, and none of it would work without someone like Pertwee in the lead. All in all, I’m much impressed by the classic Who I’ve taken in so far. And I haven’t even seen anything by Tom Baker yet.

RD II–”Queeg”, or Mutiny on the Red Dwarf

Yes, I know it’s been a while, and that my readers — perhaps even both of them — may even have begun to lose hope that I would ever update again.

Hah. Fat chance of that. I like the sound of my own writer’s voice entirely too much to give upon this weblog that easily.

“But if you like it so much,” I imagine my tiny readership saying to themselves, “why did you put off writing another article for so long?” This I answer in several ways:

(a) Look, I’m lazy. I’ve never made any secret of being horribly lazy. Mine is the Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes approach to deadlines: I work best only under pressure. Besides which, my computer is old and slow, so working in the WordPress article-writing window makes things even slower, and I can’t even save time by typing it up on my own time and copy-pasting my finished text.

(2) My library got the first of a set of Cowboy Bebop DVDs. I mean, c’mon, it was Cowboy fuckin’ Bebop, one of the better animes of the last decade or so. Do you seriously expect me to use precious Cowboy Bebop-watching time for typing up articles and interacting with people? Why the hell would I do that?

(hat!) I’ve also discovered that one of the PBS stations I can pick up is airing episodes of the latest run of Doctor Who (not classic Who, but previous series of the new Who). You may imagine now that I have just squealed like a schoolgirl, because that’s what I did when I first found this out.

Now, on to the reviewy goodness.

RD V–”Quarantine”, or We All Keep Playin’ Those Mind Games

I present to you, gentle reader, a slightly late St. Valentine’s Day gift from me: A review of an episode all about insanity and power struggles. What better way, indeed, to say “I love you”?

RD IV–”Camille”, or Awwww, Mechanoid Lurve

So…um. Crap, starting these things is always the hardest part. Sometimes even my genius can’t help me write a sufficiently awesome and perfect opening paragraph. Gimme a minute.

RD VI–”Emohawk - Polymorph II”, or Hey, Look, My First Negative Review

Welp, folks, I have a very good reason for not having any reviews up until now. However, until I think of it, will you accept that the Devil made me do it?

RD II–”Thanks for the Memory”, or Arnold Rimmer, Sentimental Fool

Yes indeedy — I’m reviewing another Rimmer-centered episode. Why? Because I can.

RD IV–”DNA”, or Kryten’s Adventures Among the Humans

Yessirreebob, just when you thought I’d never get around to doing anything that didn’t involve a transparent excuse to think lewd thoughts about Chris Barrie, I struck again, this time to offer my thoughts about an episode featuring Robert Llewellyn unmasked and talking about his penis. (Which is a real bucket of cold water over those Chris Barrie-related thoughts, lemme tell you.)

Anyway. On to the reviewerizing, shall we?

RD V–”Holoship”, or Hologrammatic Love, as Real as Any Other

…or “Arlene Lets Her Chris Barrie Fangirlism Run Wild” ^_^’ .