Saving Sayward's slaughter

Okay

We take Resurrection of the Daleks out, of the run.  We can replace it with another story but the upshot is that Tegan leaves at the end of that story. (By the way, Tegan just walks out of of the Tardis, with only the clothes on her back-in London in 1984-She has nothing. No where to go..

OR

We have the Master kill, Tegan in planet of fire. Now yes this happened recently with Adric So this might be a problem

OR

We do not introduce Peri in planet of fire. I have nothing against Nicola Byrant but for our purposes I think it works better later if we have Tegan Jovanka.  So in Caves of Androzani Peter  Davison saves Tegan, rather than Peri.

So we have the twin dilemma but this time, we have Tegan. Tegan handles the regeneration better, and we do not have the Alien spies too. Maybe she tries to get Doctor into the Zero room. Hell you are not going out like that Doctor. So instead of a train wreck of a story, we have a cancelled train, due to flooding..

But the Doctor is erratic, Spiky and distant. Superior. Colin plays 6, as he is before the Alien spies scene.

So, we return to earth, instead of the cyber-man story we have a new doctor fighting the Daleks. Colin is cool and detached, think Maxil,all business. Also Colin does, pilot the Tardis properly he does fix, the chameleon circuit. Maybe the Doctor is not holding back anymore.

Maybe he will damn well pull the trigger...

I found this today.

A wolf's eye. I hope its lucky.

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I am displeased by work. It is not that they have stopped calling, they have stopped assigning me regular hours. Though they do continue to call, in the mornings on occasion.That and my weekend job is somewhat disappointing. I also had the frustration of attending an interview for a position, which I was over qualified for. I think I did reasonably well, in the interview but I was passed over again. with the flimsiest of excuses

Well, I wish my sister and her husband a safe and relaxing honeymoon, along route 66

I congratulate Kean, on gaining access, to University, and wish my cousin Orla a happy birthday

I send best wishes to my aunt

I am pleased to note that QPR won a cup game, this week. Oh and that Who trial has returned

As always I send love to my daughter

Filmation Flash Gordon 1979

I remember watching this, years ago. I remember  was shown on the BBC, and ITV at once sometime in the early eighties If I recall correctly the BBC showed the  Flash Gordon series, and ITV showed the telefilm. 

I discovered it on YouTube and I  watched it over a night and morning.

I can see why people liked Flash Gordon. It actually allows a mash of genres. The TV movie actually starts in Warsaw in 1939. We see Stukas marked with swastikas bombing Warsaw. ( Interesting-the producers depicted Swastikas) 

Flash who was a star of the 1936 Olympics, finds a man, dying in an apartment. (Hitler is in fact a character in this film, We learn that Ming the Merciless had been supplying Herr Hitler with super weapons)

Flash and Dale, go to meet Professor Zarkov.  I wondered if it was possible to catch a passenger flight, in 1930s Europe. Well, I suppose Flash may have returned to the US. The air-plane is attacked by flying furious hail.. Oh and Dale, looks the part. She has the look of a Heady Lamar. Dale is different to a female lead in a modern cartoon. She-ra or Princess Bubblegum. She is rather passive, she is openly intimated by Aura's desire for Flash. She is sent off to be married to Ming.

 There is a dancing bikini girl in Ming's harem

Zarkov has build an energy weapon that can destroy the sun. Which is nice, but there are Nazis... You can test this weapon..doc

If you have seen, the  1980's Flash Gordon film. Then you know the plot. The Professor, Flash, and Dale travel to Mongo, to stop Ming the Merciless attacking Earth

Mongo is actually a bit like Galifrey- In that  it is red tinted and   bigger than Earth and seems largely empty desert. Flash's ship, is attacked by alien dinosaurids. I actually wonder what these lizards are eating-The ape men and the dinosaurids both  as Mongo seems to be a desert. But I have digressed. Surviving the crash the trio, fight off the dinosaurids, with shot guns, despite the fact the Zarkov has death rays on his ship. Our trio is to be attacked by brute blue ape men. Nice scene with the Blue blue ape men, opening their temple to Ming.

 So, we have ancient sword and sandal epics. Then a jungle adventure

Lionmen, Lizard women, and  a bird woman.  This is actually from the earliest days of SF

 Russell T Davis must have seen this film and fallen in love. The lizard women have breasts- which makes no sense and guard the mines-They also eat the dying prisoners indeed actually fatten them up first.

 They are Princess Aura, the very sexual daughter of Ming.  She seems to be  sitting on straw, in a spaceship at one point

By the way Ming looks rather Peruvian, in particular because he just seems to be amused at everything. So a rebellion starts in the mine, and Ming has it flooded. Rather Dukhat like.., 

Then one of the scenes I remembered Flash beating a blind monster, by running about a shouting.

Oh and Ming commands, and Aerial navy.. nice.

After Than, the prince of the lion men, and Aura and Flash escape  Zac. The evil guardian of the mines. (Yes in the eighties, zac sounded mysterious)  We meet Prince Barrin, the last of the group. Prince Barrin, is a Green arrow, lookalike with a pencil thin moustache. Barrin who wears clothes, (Flash gets more and more undressed until the final scenes of the movie)is from Abroria, and wants Princess Aura to be his girl. Oh and I forgot Voltan, the King of the Hawk-men ala Brian blessed Voltan has giant pigeon air cavalry. Mongo has lots of Aves, but aside from Humans, and Lion people very few mammals it seems.

Well I do not want to do a walk through as such. But Voltan, is clearly a Viking, he has dancing girls, chicken legs and beer. Speaking of the cartoon girls there is a lot of cartoon flesh on view here. Voltan also wants to marry Aura, Yes he wants to secure an alliance but also get access to her chamber  Yes that is a motivation you do not see in cartoons anymore. It is probably true to the source material though

The final battle between Ming and Flash is a shoot out, like a western, and Ming falling to his death to be revealed to be a robot.. As people where not allowed to die, in cartoons. Hence the robot armies, and molemen

Interesting..  We learn that the Free world, will stop the the Nazis. Flash will live his dream on an Alien world.. Dale and Flash kiss, and kiss passionately

It is a strange piece, looking back. It is a lot more sexualized than other material I have seen. The characters are defined by their desires for each other. Ming wants Dale. Aura wants Flash. Barrin wants Aura. The different genres is good. There are consequences to peoples actions. Voltan's city is destroyed and seen falling to Earth. Oh and there are actual Nazis.

Almost

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I have started a new library job, at weekends. Last week, was my first weekend. It was also a very hot day. There have not been a great many changes, since I worked in Hades, but the new scanners that can return multiple books at once are great. Oh and someone stole a trolley!

QPR, began a new season with a loss against Preston. QPR are playing under multiple restrictions, and in a proudly pink away kit.

My Aunt is unwell. I wish her the best, also to my cousin, Mary Jo and her baby Belle

My Uncle John came to visit, in July. I enjoyed his company, and we went to many hostelries

My Sister is on Honeymoon... I wish her every happiness as she explores route 66

I miss my daughter, very much.