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Phil Pascoe

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Obras de Phil Pascoe

...ish (2002) — Autor — 45 cópias
Timelash (Black Archive) (2019) 6 cópias

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Short Trips: A Day in the Life (2005) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias
Perfect Timing 2 (1999) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias

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https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/timelash-by-phil-pascoe-and-glen-mccoy/

Phil Pascoe reveals at the end of his Black Archive monograph that he actually loves this story, and it is intimately tied to very pleasant very personal childhood memories. It’s not the first Black Archive about a story which the writer loves but fandom generally doesn’t, so it’s always interesting to see what approach is taken. As he explains in the first chapter, “The Waves of Time”, Pascoe has decided to look at the story through the lens of H.G. Wells, and the extent to which he “haunts” the text. As I have myself been working through Wells’ novels (next up: The World Set Free), I found it an interesting approach.

The second chapter, “Working for the Benefit of All Karfelons”, looks at the economic set-up of the planet Karfel and applies a Wellsian critique to it.

The third chapter, “Don’t I Have a Say in All This?”, looks at just how badly Peri is treated in the story nd links that rather weakly to H.G. Wells’ feminism in theory and practice.

The fourth chapter, “Can’t You Speak, Dumbbell?”, looks at voices: interruptions, Paul Darrow’s performance, the Old Man as ventriloquist’s dummy, and the number of times people speak out of shot (to which I would have added the novelisation’s frequent use of reported speech).

The fifth chapter, “Science… Fiction” looks for Wells’ direct influence on Doctor Who and finds some, though not especially in Timelash.

The sixth chapter, “Food Which is Rightfully Ours”, looks at human meat in Who and Wells, and veganism and vegetarianism in Doctor Who.

The seventh chapter, “I Didn’t Realise Dying Heroically Was Such a Strain on the Nerves”, looks at two scenes near the end (in the Tardis console room) written by Eric Saward because the original script under-ran, suggesting that they subtly critique the entire story.

The eighth chapter, “Strange How You Can Forget What You Used to Look Like”, looks at the furniture, asks what the title actually means, and then leads into the ninth chapter, “Wish I Could Have That on Tape”, which attempts to reconstruct the Third Doctor’s adventure on Karfel.

The tenth chapter, “…Wash Us All Clean”, disarmingly admits the writer’s fond childhood memories of the story, separated from fan criticism.

The whole thing is interesting, though not all of the interesting parts are about Timelash. Perhaps that is just as well.
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nwhyte | Apr 1, 2023 |
Very ... Anglo-centric.
...Ish is a living meme that tries to take over the lexicon of the language only to slam into the colorful wall that is the Doctor.
 
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fuzzipueo | outras 4 resenhas | Apr 24, 2022 |
I don't suppose this book is for everyone. It's quite strange. Imagine if James Patterson and Bertrand Russell teamed up to write a Doctor Who story, and you get a mix of linguistic terrorism and philosophy of language.
 
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neverstopreading | outras 4 resenhas | Oct 4, 2018 |

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