J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth stories weren’t cranked out to satisfy an audience demand, and writing them wasn’t even Tolkien’s day job: writing the legends of Arda was effe…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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Pocket Books’ Star Trek novelisations offer a dizzying array of interrelated series. None of them are treated as being particularly canonical by more “central” layers of the franchise – the movies and television shows – and how much they treat one another as being canonical varies significantly as well. For instance, as I understand it … Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Sky’s the Limit| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Published in 1989, Endangered Species was Gene Wolfe’s final major short story collection of the 1980s, coming hot on the heels of 1988’s Storeys From the Old Hotel. This means that as a collection it’s picking over a span of Wolfe’s career – ranging from his 1960s early efforts through to then-recent 1980s tales – … Continue reading Endangered Species, Engrossing Wolfe| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
In my previous foray into the Eighth Doctor’s audio adventures, we explored the end of his travels with Charley and C’rizz and his departure (mostly) from Big Finish’s main range, all of which happened as a result of the Eighth Doctor Adventures radio series becoming a big enough hit that Big Finish decided to make … Continue reading Doctor Who: Sounds of the Eighth Legacy, Part 3| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Here we are with the penultimate article in my read-through of the Missing Adventures novels from Virgin Books. By this point in time, it was understood that the Virgin licence would be coming to an end. For the New Adventures, this kicked off a period of tying off the loose ends and telling the last … Continue reading The Virgin Missing Adventures: From the Sands of Time to the Speed of Flight| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Time to once again check in on Big Finish’s output of Seventh Doctor audio adventures. Last time I thought the crop of stories was pretty hit and miss, after the initial flurry of adventures …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
10 posts published by Arthur during May 2025| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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The story so far: the First and Second Doctor’s jaunts through time and space are a fading memory, now that we’ve an entire season of the Third Doctor being stuck on Earth and working w…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Odds are that any modern text you look at which purports to unpack “ceremonial magic” or the “Western esoteric tradition” will, on some level, owe a certain debt to the Herm…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Ritual America – or, to give the book its full title, Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence On American Society – A Visual Guide – is a big, chunky, coffee table…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
What’s in a name? Sure, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet – but if you called roses “roses” and called turds “roses” you’d have an enormous amo…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
In writing A Magick Life Martin Booth sets himself a challenge. Biographies of figures like Aleister Crowley can be difficult because he was one of those people who devote their lives to subjects w…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. One of th…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. In princi…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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The story so far: the Virgin New Adventures have wound their way through numerous story arcs and phases – the Timewyrm saga, the Cat’s Cradle trilogy, the arc surrounding Ace’s departure and return and Benny’s arrival, an era of tension among the TARDIS crew, the alternate history crisis, an experimental period, the build-up and aftermath … Continue reading The Virgin New Adventures: From Happy Endings To Damaged Goods| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The cult of the Divine Order rules over its home dimension, which it dubs “the light universe”, with an iron fist, ruled over by the entity known only as His Divine Shadow (Walter Borden) – a messianic figure whose essence is passed down from body to body, the brains of his former bodies being preserved … Continue reading Lexxual Debauchery: Season 1| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a tentative beginning and a gradual process of refinement and development, Deep Space Nine kicked off the Dominion plot arc, which saw growing tensions leading to a slide towards conflict. The show ended its fifth season with the Dominion War erupting, leading to season 6 beginning with an intriguing experiment … Continue reading Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Season of Leavetaking| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Hooray! My Big Finish listening process has looped around to the Sixth Doctor again, which always feels like a treat; he really does represent the best of what the company does. And this clutch of stories is even more of a treat because over these four main range releases we’ll enjoy Colin Baker teaming up … Continue reading Doctor Who: The Sonic Salvaging of the Sixth, Part 8| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after being hauled to the Delta Quadrant by the vastly powerful entity known as the Caretaker, the USS Voyager has spent entirely too much time dealing with the Kazon, picked up the trail of the Borg, and dialled up the sexy by adding Jeri Ryan to the cast. Now series co-creator … Continue reading Star Trek: Voyager – The Season of the Dark Frontier| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
To all external appearances, Stephen Brown (Chris Wilkes) is an ordinary British lad in his late teens, living with his dad Simon (Tony Goddard), his stepmother Jennifer (Angie Goddard), and his st…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
10 posts published by Arthur during June 2020| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
David Lynch is one of my favourite directors, but other than my reviews of Twin Peaks and its tie-in materials I haven’t really touched on his work much on here. As with The Book of the New S…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
When I want to take in some Lord of the Rings I tend not to go back to the original book or the movies – dipping into the BBC Radio adaptation is my preferred way, and I remain of the opinion…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after embracing an overtly New Age, Theosophical and Gnostic-tinged worldview in an extremely public manner, David Icke finds himself the subject of widespread ridicule. In the mi…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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The story so far: after a shaky start, Deep Space Nine spent its second season recalibrating its formula, with broadly positive results. At the same time, The Next Generation aired its final season…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far – Star Trek: The Next Generation has proved so successful that it’s spawned its own spinoff show, Deep Space Nine, and the first season has set up the basic parameters …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
In 1993, the Star Trek franchise tried something unprecedented – putting out a spin-off series to air in parallel with the still-ongoing Star Trek: The Next Generation. In principle, The Next…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a bumpy start and a period of readjustment, Star Trek: The Next Generation clicked into its archetypal form in season 3 and kept up high standards into season 4. In the proc…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
OK, that’s an article title which needs a bit of justification. I’m not using “perfection” here in the sense that the show could not possibly getter, or that it would stop d…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Star Trek vs. Star Wars is a silly, undignified playground debate, like Nintendo vs. Sega, and the idea that one franchise can be held to be objectively better than the other when they’re rea…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
You could make an argument that Star Trek wasn’t quite Star Trek in the early stretches of its first season. So many of the features we now regard as essential to the franchise – includ…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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Metal Hurlant – it means “Howling/Screaming Metal” in French – was a comics institution. You can definitely make a case that you don’t get 2000 AD without Metal Hurlan…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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The story so far: Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare On Elm Street craftily blended the techniques and tropes of the slasher movie as developed by Halloween, Friday the 13th, and a tidal wave …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
As we’ve previously seen, the early days of the Seventh Doctor’s run in the comics pages of Doctor Who Magazine came at a difficult time for the publication, with Richard Starkings and,…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
6 posts published by Arthur during January 2011| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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It’s been a difficult time for Starfleet, but now that the Enterprise-E has defeated the Borg Queen’s plan to assimilate Earth and the tide has begun to turn in the Dominion War, Picard…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Last time we checked in with the Seventh Doctor’s audio adventures on Big Finish, it was a period when the newly-expanded companion lineup of Ace and Hex was really getting up to speed. This …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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The story so far: actually, there’s not much need to do a “story so far” with the Missing Adventures is there? The whole point of the sequence is that it’s meant to provide …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
By the time Sylvester McCoy debuted as the Doctor, the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine had gone from being an odd adjunct to the Fourth and Fifth Doctor’s eras to a haven during the Sixth …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after the Timewyrm and Cat’s Cradle cycles, after Ace’s depature and return and the recruitment of Benny, after a drift into increasingly grimdark material that turned…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: with the withdrawal of Cardassian forces from Bajor, the Federation took over the Cardassian space station known as Terek Nor and renamed it Deep Space 9. As the command crew deal…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The history of the bundle of neopagan movements known as “Wicca” is contentious. Almost as soon as it hit the public consciousness in the 1950s, it splintered, these schisms and off-sho…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
In the half-century since it first aired, The Prisoner has become a televisual touchstone, as great a leap forward when it came to the artistic potential of television as the original Twin Peaks wa…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
From her debut in The Marian Conspiracy through to mid-2006, Evelyn Smythe was the Sixth Doctor’s primary audio companion; Colin Baker would appear in a healthy number of audios with other co…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
After spending its early seasons going through growing pains under Michael Piller’s watch, in its third season Deep Space Nine was given into the care of Ira Steven Behr, who spent that perio…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after a strong but truncated first season, Voyager went astray a little in its second season, largely because of an excessive reliance on Kazon plot which just didn’t pan ou…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Years ago at the Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet was tested to its limit against the Borg, not least because they had successfully abducted and assimilated none other than Jean-Luc Picard. As Locutus…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: after spending its first two seasons under the stewardship of Michael Piller, Deep Space Nine spent its third season shifting gear, new showrunner Ira Steven Behr swiftly making h…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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Time again for another batch of Colin Baker audio adventures from Big Finish. Last time, we got to the end of the Wilderness Years, and as I explained in my latest Davison-focused article, that mea…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Doom is a widely-beloved classic for a reason, and whilst there’s much to be said for the simplicity of the original release or the community spirit of various fan-written engines usable to r…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: with the Missing Adventures series’ first few releases having established the series, we’ve seen a range of different writers taking a wide range of approaches when it…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Time for another entry in my series covering the Fifth Doctor-focused audio adventures from Big Finish. Last time, we got to the end of the Wilderness Years, which frees me up to rejig the format o…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
So, we’re dealing with an iconic 1990s TV series here, in the pilot episode of which (Pilot) we have a young woman showing up dead on the outskirts of a small woodland town in the Pacific Nor…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Time for the second part of my exploration of how Big Finish’s Doctor Who line exited the Wilderness Years. Previously, we’d seen how the Fifth Doctor audio dramas ended up being somewh…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. Philip K.…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. 1954-1955…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. Having fi…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. By 1960, …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Time for another instalment in my ongoing series exploring the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures put out via Big Finish. We’ve now hit a very special point in the sequence; after picking …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
The story so far: Peter Darvill-Evans has ascended to becoming editor in overall charge of Virgin’s fiction lines, leaving Rebecca Levene in charge of the Doctor Who novel lines. Under Darvil…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. Once upon…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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It is the 1st Century BC; the Roman Republic’s slide into dictatorship and Empire is gathering apace, driven not by Julius Caesar (John Gavin), who is as yet a young patrician still making a …| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Somewhere in the early 21st Century, over three decades after World War III was kicked off by a bomb of a hitherto-unknown variety detonating over Tokyo, the world is rebuilding. Neo-Tokyo rises, a…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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It’s been a while since one of these entries in my series of Philip K. Dick reviews, so let’s see what ground we’ve covered to date. Firat, we’ve looked at Dick’s earl…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
You can argue about who counts as the first cyberpunk author – some would advocate for Philip K. Dick, others might make a case for John Brunner, Niven and Pournelle’s Oath of Fealty is…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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This article was originally published on Ferretbrain. I’ve backdated it to its original Ferretbrain publication date but it may have been edited and amended since its original appearance. You could…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Stanley’s Kubrick as a director can be split into two halves: his early work up to Spartacus, and his post-Spartacus work. Kubrick’s first few movies were lean, low-budget noirs –…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
A warning in advance: this article is going to do absolutely nothing new. Griping about diminishing returns in the Alien sequels is a well-ploughed furrow. Still, with Disney threatening to make mo…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
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The tendency of the entertainment industry to try and turn everything into a franchise sometimes has strange results. Take, for instance, the example of RoboCop, where Paul Verhoeven’s origin…| Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
