Rob Reed

Well. Crikey.

Well there goes my plan of ‘going up to do some reading’.

I could watch this every day.

The opening credits of Starfleet Academy, with the ‘Skip Credits’ button showing even though we’re a long way through the sequence.

Why on Earth does the ‘skip credits’ button on Paramount Plus stay all the way through the bloody opening sequence? If I haven’t pressed it 90 seconds in, I’m probably good. And would probably prefer the credits without a bleeding button obscuring them.

Bloody hell, Life of Chuck is good. But it’s almost impossible to describe why without spoiling it. Please just look at the picture and think “Yeah!”

Tall Jemima Poems and other ramblings, by Rob Reed.

There are lots of ways to be loved. Here is a poem about some of them. Hope you identify with at least one.

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This isn’t the worst thing about Trump by quite some margin but… he’s a fucking coward, right? Always hiding behind weasely little half-ass excuses. ‘Lot of people saying…’ ‘…an intent posted it…’

Say it or don’t say it. Ideally the latter.

The Day After Groundhog Day Poems and other ramblings, by Rob Reed.

A poem, about today. Or yesterday, maybe?

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Time Is Relative - 14.2 The Hand of Fear What's Sarah Jane up to this week? Well, you'll be unsurprised to find that she's up to "Being possessed by aliens again." Sarah is completely under the spell of this week's villain. However, she's st...

Remembering Elizabeth Sladena nd Sarah Jane Smith. Through the medium of slightly-amusing nonsense…

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Head now buzzing with the notion of James-from-Traitors as the Doctor.

Constant wide eyed wonder and confusion. Most episodes end with everyone dead and him saying “Well that didn’t really go as well as I expected.”

Time Is Relative - 15.2 The Invisible Enemy This story starts in space, which is an excellent idea - space is awesome. This bit of space is particularly good, because as well as having stars (fun), it also has massive blue explosions that tear ...

“Doctor Who is trying to work out what is going on. There's clearly some nefarious alien skullduggery afoot. He engages his usual response, which is to say, "Ahhhhhh” for as long as he can manage, in the hope that a clue will arrive before he passes out.”

Read on…

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Time Is Relative - 2.3 The Rescue It's another adventure for Doctor Who, and he's already asleep. Usually he waits until about half way through the story before declaring the situation impossible and then falling asleep while everyone...

“This week’s villain is called Bennet. He never gets out of bed, and says he's too poorly and that Vicki has to do everything. Barbara nods understandingly, thinking, "We've got a bloke just like this in our spaceship."”

It’s Doctor Who - The Rescue. Read on…

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And then there’s the number of times she’s flirted with men who can travel in time…

Thin Ice is Doctor Who at its best. It looks great, there’s a hissable villain and there’s a real sense of who the Doctor essentially *is*. And Bill… good grief Bill is wonderful.

100 Books in a year: 46 - 50 Poems and other ramblings, by Rob Reed.

Dodgy lawyers, hopeless spies and sweet transvestites. What have I been reading? Find out…

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Ribos! Not Robos.

Time Is Relative - 16.1 The Ribos Operation Doctor Who opens the TARDIS door to find that outside is a mad, dazzling world of fire and brightness. Judging by his face he wasn't expecting this, so we can guess that it's one of the following: a) ...

“The White Guardian starts bossing Doctor Who about, saying "Could you go fetch my massive crystal for me?" Doctor Who says yes, on the grounds that The White Guardian guy will murder him otherwise.”

It’s Doctor Who: The Robos Operation! Read on:

That'd be great. Let's get into February and make a plan. Right now, hunkering down and hiding are my main plans. :-)

I'm in a similar place with writing. Very hard to get going at the moment. I'm telling myself that January sucks, and I'm allowed to be kind to myself this month.

Slave to the algorithm is an excellent title.

I also like 'moptivation' though I suspect I may be disappointed and find it's a typo...

James alone makes me feel like there’s joy and hope in the world. Tom Basden to play him in the film.

Fair enough, obviously, but I just saw a man turn down tens of thousands of pounds, so he could be honest to a deal he made. That feels positive to me. :-)

Now 4 out of seven.

Don’t want to jump to conclusions about the state of the world, but three out of five adverts so far at the cinema have been “Join the armed forces”.

Time Is Relative - 13.5 The Brain of Morbius This story is about a super crazy Scientist Guy. There he is, playing with the severed head of a giant insect man, thinking about the fun experiments he can do later on. The guy behind him, with the t...

Happy 92nd birthday to the brilliant Tom Baker. Here’s what his Doctor Who was up to, fifty years ago in January 1976…

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Thanks, BBC trailers, for spoiling The Night Manager for us. You understand that people watch things on catch up, right? You pillocks.

In Heaven, Everything is Fine Poems and other ramblings, by Rob Reed.

Thoughts on the weirdness and joy of David Lynch, one year after he passed beyond the curtain.

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Time Is Relative - 2.8 The Chase Look, it's the Beatles! Don't get too excited though - they're not actually in the story. Doctor Who is watching them on his space television. That's what he does now. He watches other people on TV, w...

Don’t go to sleep! Read my quick, sort-of-amusing account of Doctor Who: The Chase!

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Oh no, don't say it's true. Poems and other ramblings, by Rob Reed.

10 years on from the death of David Bowie. Here’s how I felt at the time…

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