L. M. Myles
Autor de Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who
Sobre El Autor
Obras de L. M. Myles
Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who (2015) — Editor — 32 copias
Obras relacionadas
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It (2010) — Contribuidor — 264 copias
Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic (2020) — Contribuidor — 27 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Myles, Lizbeth M.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Scotland
- Lugares de residencia
- Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, UK
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- También por
- 9
- Miembros
- 204
- Popularidad
- #108,207
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 16
It's not my favourite story, but Myles successfully persuades me that there is quite a lot going on here, with chapters on:
* the opening titles, which have a unique-for-Old-Who pre-title sequence and a musical sting for the words "OF DEATH";
* the triple Doctor/Brigadier/Liz dynamic;
* the Doctor/Brigadier relationship;
* the Doctor/Liz relationship;
* the villainy or not of the three main guest characters, Reegan, Cornish and Carrington;
* the fact that there are no women apart from Liz;
* the problem of UNIT;
* fictional and real British space programmes;
* class divisions, especially Sir James Quinlan;
* the problem of the Ambassadors themselves;
* the problem of the absent TARDIS (though actually this does explain for me the silly time-travel bit in the first episode);
* the CSO special effects;
* the genre shading into spy adventure and crime-fighting;
* a note on Quatermass;
* a conclusion. "Ambassadors has been my favourite of season seven since I first watched it, and putting it under such close scrutiny has only increased my admiration and love for it. It’s a complicated, nuanced story that explores humanity’s conflicted, messy reactions to the unknown, and comes down firmly on the side of patience, knowledge, curiosity and trust."
As is probably clear, I don't go all the way with Myles on this - the internal inconsistencies annoy me too much - but it's still nice to read someone else's appreciation, even for something I don't like as much as she does.… (más)