• What Did You Watch? 2026-02-18 (Wednesday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 04:30:41 2026
    I watched:

    Watched BASED Trans Women Break Their Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHTN4h8pak

    Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24
    Watched Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24

    PCB | AI Threatens Hollywood BIG TIME | Mando & Grogu Trailer | RIP Robert Duvall | Movie: Clue!
    Pop Culture Breakdown is BACK and tonight we discuss the MASSIVE
    step forward for AI that threatens Hollywood. As the recent AI Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt video proves, the uncanny valley has been bridged - is
    this the beginning of the end for Hollywood? We also review the
    Mando/Grogu trailer, we discuss Joan of Arc being a proud woman of
    color in a new movie, we bid a sad farewell to the great Robert Duvall,
    and our movie this week is Clue! Join our panel of pop culture pundits
    as we break down the highs and lows of the week in pop culture!

    0:04:16 THE BREAKDOWN
    0:05:01 A Ray of Hope: Department of Justice Launches a Probe Into the Potential Impact of the Sale of Warner Bros. on National Theater Chains 0:09:04 AMC Is Now Screening AI Short Films Before Theatrical Movies
    0:15:25 The Future with AI ? Not Limited to Just Movies
    0:47:11 Welcome, Doug Nelson!
    0:54:37 Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) Is Going on a Strike
    1:01:22 Final Thoughts on the Future ? For Now.
    1:10:08 SUPER CHATS
    1:11:53 Welcome, Andy Masterson!
    1:31:01 THE BREAKDOWN continued
    1:31:08 The Mandalorian and Grogu Final Trailer Does Not Convince
    2:06:04 Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 6, "Come, Let's Away"
    2:18:09 Saint Joan ? a POC Reimagining of the Classic 1923 Play by
    George Bernard Shaw
    2:28:19 SUPER CHATS
    2:41:50 ?? MOVIES WE LOVE -- Clue (1985)
    3:05:09 R.i.P., Robert Duvall (5 January, 1931 ? 15 February, 2026)
    3:15:54 SUPER CHATS
    3:35:32 Goodnight, Everybody!
    3:35:49 Some More SUPER CHATS
    3:40:06 Final SUPER CHATS
    3:42:11 The last second

    https://www.youtube.com/live/fI9rWKJJWig?si=ygvqDJCVHnSTi7Z2

    What did you watch?

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 07:06:34 2026
    Verily, in article <UBI20260218@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    I watched:

    Watched BASED Trans Women Break Their Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHTN4h8pak

    I'm playing this now. Hmm. What did you think of it?


    Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24
    Watched Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24

    According to Seth McFarlane, the "mystery" of who can understand Stewie
    when is really no mystery. Everyone can hear and understand Stewie, but because he's a baby, they don't take him seriously.

    This explains some sequences, but others don't fit IMO.


    What did you watch?

    On Monday, I watched an episode of The Masked Singer. It was the s14
    season premiere. This show is not for me.

    On Tuesday, I skipped TV in favor of a game.

    On Wednesday, I watched the first two episodes of season 2 of My Little
    Pony: Friendship is Magic. This is a two-parter named "The Return of
    Harmony." Discord, a newly returned spirit of chaos, sets out to destroy
    the Mane Six's friendship to clear the way to conquering Equestria. You
    may be surprised to learn that he succeeds, although everything's okay
    in the end.

    This one has always intrigued me because three of the Mane Six were easy
    to convert to enmity and chaos, but two were not. Rainbow Dash couldn't
    be persuaded to be disloyal, so instead Discord tricked her by
    convincing her that her hometown of Cloudsdale needed her more.
    Fluttershy couldn't be persuaded to be unkind, so Discord cheated by
    using an additional spell to turn her cruel.

    Tubi then suggested Can't Buy Me Love, a movie from 1987, and I watched
    it. A nerdy boy pays a popular girl to be seen with him. There's not
    much to say about this one, but it was a lot of silly fun. It made a few points about the shallowness of following trends and so forth, and
    everybody learned some valuable lessons and found themselves.

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.


    What did everyone else watch?

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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 07:41:27 2026
    On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:06:34 -0500, The True Melissa
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260218@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net >deliver unto us this message:

    I watched:

    Watched BASED Trans Women Break Their Silence
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHTN4h8pak

    I'm playing this now. Hmm. What did you think of it?


    Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24
    Watched Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24

    According to Seth McFarlane, the "mystery" of who can understand Stewie
    when is really no mystery. Everyone can hear and understand Stewie, but >because he's a baby, they don't take him seriously.

    This explains some sequences, but others don't fit IMO.


    What did you watch?

    On Monday, I watched an episode of The Masked Singer. It was the s14
    season premiere. This show is not for me.

    On Tuesday, I skipped TV in favor of a game.

    On Wednesday, I watched the first two episodes of season 2 of My Little >Pony: Friendship is Magic. This is a two-parter named "The Return of >Harmony." Discord, a newly returned spirit of chaos, sets out to destroy
    the Mane Six's friendship to clear the way to conquering Equestria. You
    may be surprised to learn that he succeeds, although everything's okay
    in the end.

    This one has always intrigued me because three of the Mane Six were easy
    to convert to enmity and chaos, but two were not. Rainbow Dash couldn't
    be persuaded to be disloyal, so instead Discord tricked her by
    convincing her that her hometown of Cloudsdale needed her more.
    Fluttershy couldn't be persuaded to be unkind, so Discord cheated by
    using an additional spell to turn her cruel.

    Tubi then suggested Can't Buy Me Love, a movie from 1987, and I watched
    it. A nerdy boy pays a popular girl to be seen with him. There's not
    much to say about this one, but it was a lot of silly fun. It made a few >points about the shallowness of following trends and so forth, and
    everybody learned some valuable lessons and found themselves.

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.


    What did everyone else watch?

    I spent the past week watching BOSCH season 3 where in the main issue
    is Bosch being framed for a murder.

    I also watched the latest episode of WILL TRENT. In this one we have
    the discovery of a serial killer after Will's old "friend" sees a
    killer and starts posting a "detailed" drawing of the killer leading
    to him being a target.

    What did you watch?

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 19:47:36 2026
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    . . .

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.

    I have no idea what you really watched. "The Deadly Assassin" was the
    third serial of season 14. Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) had been
    written out and Leela (Louise Jameson) has not yet been introduced. Tom
    Baker had been trying to talk producers into letting him carry the
    series without a companion but they reverted with the next serial. I
    liked that the show's structure was shaken up a bit, but Baker really
    needed to play off a co-star.

    It's a critical serial, introducing a good number of plot elements and
    back story aspects, like Rassilon's invention of their technology, that
    would be inconsistently used over and over again. It's one of the show's best-written episodes. Parodying the State Opening of Parliament was hysterical. It is so much better than The Five Doctors which is more of
    a ripoff than a continuation and I objected to turning Borusa mad.

    I think if this had been the episode you would have paid attention.

    https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Deadly_Assassin_(TV_story)

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 20:33:12 2026
    On Feb 19, 2026 at 4:06:34 AM PST, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260218@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.

    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of
    Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the episode would start.

    I was also surprised at the scene in the storm sewers when Leela is attacked
    by a giant rat and falls into the water. The Doctor kills the rat and helps Leela up. She's wearing a sheer white top which became see-through in the
    water and you could easily see her breasteses through the fabric. She was essentially topless in that scene. Not what I expected in a Doctor Who
    episode.

    Why couldn't this tradition have continued with Sarah Jane Smith, Pond, and
    The Impossibly Cute Girl?!?

    And I'm sure anim8r would include Donna Noble in that, too. ;-)



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 20:34:44 2026
    On Feb 19, 2026 at 4:41:27 AM PST, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:06:34 -0500, The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260218@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    What did everyone else watch?

    I spent the past week watching BOSCH season 3 where in the main issue
    is Bosch being framed for a murder.

    That family has the worst luck. In this season of THE LINCOLN LAWYER, Bosch's half-brother is framed for murder.



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 23:48:10 2026
    Subject: Doctor Who "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-02-18 (Wednesday))

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of >Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me >with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the >episode would start.

    This was a wonderful serial, the last serial of season 14. Producer
    Philip Hinchcliffe, who ran the show during its most creative period,
    was leaving. It was also the last serial directed by David Maloney, who
    would produce Blake's 7. Hinchcliffe wanted to go out on a bang; ths
    serial had especially high production values, relatively speaking.

    There is no cultural appropriation. Weng-Chiang was a future war
    criminal and mass murderer passing himself off as a god and performing a vaudeville stage act. His face was damaged so the actor Michael Spice
    was in heavy makeup and not yellowface. An actor who could perform in
    heavy makeup was needed and he didn't have to be Chinese. He's one of
    the great villains. Also says one of the most memorable lines of
    dialogue: She's got muscles like a horse!

    Also, it's fiction, not documentary.

    I was also surprised at the scene in the storm sewers when Leela is attacked >by a giant rat and falls into the water. The Doctor kills the rat and helps >Leela up. She's wearing a sheer white top which became see-through in the >water and you could easily see her breasteses through the fabric. She was >essentially topless in that scene. Not what I expected in a Doctor Who >episode.

    There's a note about this in the Tardis wiki.

    Louise Jameson didn't have a happy time filming the sewer
    scenes, as she was suffering from glandular fever which also
    forced her to cancel a forthcoming appearance on the Saturday
    morning children's phone-in show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
    (1976-1982). Not only did she have to contend with thrashing
    about in the water, but she discovered that the undergarments
    which made up her costume became partly transparent when damp.

    I've said this before. Leela (Louise Jameson) corrupted my yout'. We got
    these episodes as syndicated foreign programming on my local public
    television station a few years after their iniitial broadcast on BBC1.
    She was hot as anything, a premiere action babe. That savage warrior
    costume she typically wore, not in this serial, was more revealing than
    a one-piece bathing suit.

    Why couldn't this tradition have continued with Sarah Jane Smith, Pond, and >The Impossibly Cute Girl?!?

    Any brief hint of nudity of a gorgeous actress corrupts boys. It's worth
    the risk.

    And I'm sure anim8r would include Donna Noble in that, too. ;-)

    Oh! That's mean.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 20 01:10:10 2026
    Subject: Re: Doctor Who "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-02-18 (Wednesday))

    On Feb 19, 2026 at 3:48:10 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of
    Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me >> with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the >> episode would start.

    This was a wonderful serial, the last serial of season 14. Producer
    Philip Hinchcliffe, who ran the show during its most creative period,
    was leaving. It was also the last serial directed by David Maloney, who
    would produce Blake's 7. Hinchcliffe wanted to go out on a bang; ths
    serial had especially high production values, relatively speaking.

    There is no cultural appropriation. Weng-Chiang was a future war
    criminal and mass murderer passing himself off as a god and performing a vaudeville stage act. His face was damaged so the actor Michael Spice
    was in heavy makeup and not yellowface. An actor who could perform in
    heavy makeup was needed and he didn't have to be Chinese. He's one of
    the great villains. Also says one of the most memorable lines of
    dialogue: She's got muscles like a horse!

    Also, it's fiction, not documentary.

    I was also surprised at the scene in the storm sewers when Leela is attacked >> by a giant rat and falls into the water. The Doctor kills the rat and helps >> Leela up. She's wearing a sheer white top which became see-through in the
    water and you could easily see her breasteses through the fabric. She was
    essentially topless in that scene. Not what I expected in a Doctor Who
    episode.

    There's a note about this in the Tardis wiki.

    Louise Jameson didn't have a happy time filming the sewer
    scenes, as she was suffering from glandular fever which also
    forced her to cancel a forthcoming appearance on the Saturday
    morning children's phone-in show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
    (1976-1982). Not only did she have to contend with thrashing
    about in the water, but she discovered that the undergarments
    which made up her costume became partly transparent when damp.

    I've said this before. Leela (Louise Jameson) corrupted my yout'. We got these episodes as syndicated foreign programming on my local public television station a few years after their iniitial broadcast on BBC1.
    She was hot as anything, a premiere action babe. That savage warrior
    costume she typically wore, not in this serial, was more revealing than
    a one-piece bathing suit.

    I always kind of resented Leela. I started watching DOCTOR WHO one summer
    while visiting my grandparents in Boston. It was playing WGBH-PBS there at the time. I didn't know anything about the history of the show. I didn't know
    Baker was the fifth guy to play the role or that the companions come and go. All I knew was that Sladen seemed to be the main cast along with Baker. And I also had a major junior-high crush on Sarah Jane. Then suddenly she just
    leaves and here's this jungle girl trying to replace her in my heart. I wasn't having it.

    Why couldn't this tradition have continued with Sarah Jane Smith, Pond, and >> The Impossibly Cute Girl?!?

    Any brief hint of nudity of a gorgeous actress corrupts boys. It's worth
    the risk.

    And I'm sure anim8r would include Donna Noble in that, too. ;-)

    Oh! That's mean.




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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Thu Feb 19 21:08:11 2026
    Subject: Re: Doctor Who "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" (was: What Did You Watch? 2026-02-18 (Wednesday))

    On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:48:10 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of >>Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me >>with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the >>episode would start.

    Watchable here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8o9i1S0Ls

    This was a wonderful serial, the last serial of season 14. Producer
    Philip Hinchcliffe, who ran the show during its most creative period,
    was leaving. It was also the last serial directed by David Maloney, who
    would produce Blake's 7. Hinchcliffe wanted to go out on a bang; ths
    serial had especially high production values, relatively speaking.

    There is no cultural appropriation. Weng-Chiang was a future war
    criminal and mass murderer passing himself off as a god and performing a >vaudeville stage act. His face was damaged so the actor Michael Spice
    was in heavy makeup and not yellowface. An actor who could perform in
    heavy makeup was needed and he didn't have to be Chinese. He's one of
    the great villains. Also says one of the most memorable lines of
    dialogue: She's got muscles like a horse!

    The BBC disagrees. ;)

    Also, it's fiction, not documentary.

    I was also surprised at the scene in the storm sewers when Leela is attacked >>by a giant rat and falls into the water. The Doctor kills the rat and helps >>Leela up. She's wearing a sheer white top which became see-through in the >>water and you could easily see her breasteses through the fabric. She was >>essentially topless in that scene. Not what I expected in a Doctor Who >>episode.

    There's a note about this in the Tardis wiki.

    Louise Jameson didn't have a happy time filming the sewer
    scenes, as she was suffering from glandular fever which also
    forced her to cancel a forthcoming appearance on the Saturday
    morning children's phone-in show Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
    (1976-1982). Not only did she have to contend with thrashing
    about in the water, but she discovered that the undergarments
    which made up her costume became partly transparent when damp.

    https://youtu.be/Hq8o9i1S0Ls?t=4314

    I've said this before. Leela (Louise Jameson) corrupted my yout'. We got >these episodes as syndicated foreign programming on my local public >television station a few years after their iniitial broadcast on BBC1.
    She was hot as anything, a premiere action babe. That savage warrior
    costume she typically wore, not in this serial, was more revealing than
    a one-piece bathing suit.

    Why couldn't this tradition have continued with Sarah Jane Smith, Pond, and >>The Impossibly Cute Girl?!?

    Any brief hint of nudity of a gorgeous actress corrupts boys. It's worth
    the risk.

    And I'm sure anim8r would include Donna Noble in that, too. ;-)

    He would have died for such a thing. Literally. LOL.

    Oh! That's mean.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 20 03:51:25 2026
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 19, 2026 3:48:10 PM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    . . .

    I've said this before. Leela (Louise Jameson) corrupted my yout'. We got >>these episodes as syndicated foreign programming on my local public >>television station a few years after their iniitial broadcast on BBC1.
    She was hot as anything, a premiere action babe. That savage warrior >>costume she typically wore, not in this serial, was more revealing than
    a one-piece bathing suit.

    I always kind of resented Leela. I started watching DOCTOR WHO one summer >while visiting my grandparents in Boston. It was playing WGBH-PBS there at the >time. I didn't know anything about the history of the show. I didn't know >Baker was the fifth guy to play the role or that the companions come and go. >All I knew was that Sladen seemed to be the main cast along with Baker. And I >also had a major junior-high crush on Sarah Jane. Then suddenly she just >leaves and here's this jungle girl trying to replace her in my heart. I wasn't >having it.

    Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor.

    I believe I'd seen the two movie adaptations starring Peter Cushing
    first. I've got a vague memory that when I began watching the tv series,
    it would have been with the second serial, The Hand of Fear. That quite confused me as the second lead, Elisabeth Sladen, left as her character
    Sarah Jane Smith had been written out. Then, The Deadly Assassin with no companion, and then The Face of Evil, intoducing Jameson as Leela.

    Later, I got to see the Third Doctor era starring Jon Pertwee in which
    he's largely exiled on Earth, starting with season 7. Roger Delgado as The Master was introduced in season 8, and he gave a far better performance
    than all subsequent incarnations. The companions were the wonderful
    Caroline John as Liz Shaw in season 7, then Katy Manning as the horrid
    Jo Grant for the next three seasons. In season 11, we get Sarah Jane
    Smith, a breath of fresh air compared to Jo Grant who not only always
    had to be rescued and was there just so the Third Doctor could explain
    plot absurdities.

    Tom Baker was introduced in Season 12.

    We got the First and Second Doctors much later with lots of missing
    episodes as BBC had erased so many.

    . . .

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 20 04:30:43 2026
    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Ubiquitous wrote:

    I watched:

    Watched BASED Trans Women Break Their Silence
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHTN4h8pak

    I'm playing this now. Hmm. What did you think of it?

    It's refreshing to hear from trans people who afre not totally insane
    and feel the same way about the ones making them look bad.

    #LGBTwithouttheT

    Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24
    Watched Lois FINALLY Understands Stewie!? - Family Guy Season 24

    According to Seth McFarlane, the "mystery" of who can understand Stewie
    when is really no mystery. Everyone can hear and understand Stewie, but >because he's a baby, they don't take him seriously.

    This explains some sequences, but others don't fit IMO.

    Yeah, I'm not buying his explaination. He just doesn't want to say
    "It depends on what is funnier".

    What did you watch?

    On Monday, I watched an episode of The Masked Singer. It was the s14
    season premiere. This show is not for me.

    I watched it once and felt the same way, espcially because of Doctor
    Kim's antics and the the mystery singers aren't really doing the singing.

    Tubi then suggested Can't Buy Me Love, a movie from 1987, and I watched
    it. A nerdy boy pays a popular girl to be seen with him. There's not
    much to say about this one, but it was a lot of silly fun. It made a few >points about the shallowness of following trends and so forth, and
    everybody learned some valuable lessons and found themselves.

    I could have sworn this was covered on YouTube by This Aged Great.

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.

    An excellent classic ep!

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 20 06:37:38 2026
    Verily, in article <10n7pco$3q2of$1@dont-email.me>, did ahk@chinet.com
    deliver unto us this message:

    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    . . .

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in >partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and >Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant >wallpaper.

    I have no idea what you really watched. "The Deadly Assassin" was the
    third serial of season 14. Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) had been written out and Leela (Louise Jameson) has not yet been introduced.

    Yes, you're right. I was typing too fast. "The Deadly Assasin" was
    schedule, but that wasn't what was broadcast.

    I did warn you that I turned it on but didn't pay attention. :-)



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 20 06:39:30 2026
    Verily, in article <10n7s28$3qai2$6@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:
    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the episode would start.


    I've always thought that's an interesting display of why censorship is
    always bad. Nobody watches that episode because of its offensive
    depictions of Asians, but if they did, they'd see a real-live example of
    a Time Lord changing race. If the progressives hadn't declared it
    verboten, they would have had strong ammunition to argue for a non-white Doctor.

    --
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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Fri Feb 20 09:45:04 2026
    Verily, in article <10n9gl6$b5dd$4@dont-email.me>, did
    weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:
    I watched it once and felt the same way, espcially because of Doctor
    Kim's antics and the the mystery singers aren't really doing the singing.


    Is that the annoying guy's name? I didn't catch it.

    If they're not even singing, what's the point of all that? Yeesh.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Sat Feb 21 04:30:56 2026
    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Ubiquitous wrote:

    I watched it once and felt the same way, espcially because of Doctor
    Kim's antics and the the mystery singers aren't really doing the
    singing.

    Is that the annoying guy's name? I didn't catch it.

    Believe it or not, he's allegedly a comedian.
    If memory serves, his big break was on COMMUNITY and THE HANGOVER.

    If they're not even singing, what's the point of all that? Yeesh.

    Exactly! It's all pre-recorded and processed. They just do choriography karioke on stage.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Sat Feb 21 05:18:47 2026
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 19, 2026 at 4:06:34 AM PST, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260218@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.

    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the episode would start.

    I was also surprised at the scene in the storm sewers when Leela is attacked by a giant rat and falls into the water. The Doctor kills the rat and helps Leela up. She's wearing a sheer white top which became see-through in the water and you could easily see her breasteses through the fabric. She was essentially topless in that scene. Not what I expected in a Doctor Who episode.

    Why couldn't this tradition have continued with Sarah Jane Smith, Pond, and The Impossibly Cute Girl?!?

    And I'm sure anim8r would include Donna Noble in that, too. ;-)


    Oh! That?s mean!



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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Sun Feb 22 04:30:43 2026
    In article <10n7s28$3qai2$6@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
    "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    I then turned to Tubi's Doctor Who Classic Live channel and came in
    partway through "The Deadly Assassin," starring the Fourth Doctor and
    Second Romana. I didn't pay close attention, but it was pleasant
    wallpaper.

    I watched an old Tom Baker episode of the Doctor-- "The Talons of >Weng-Chiang", which the YouTubes apparently thought would seriously harm me >with all the warnings about "cultural insensitivity" they put up before the >episode would start.

    I couldn't help but notice it when it was on-demand on Tubi. [eye roll]

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Sun Feb 22 04:30:44 2026
    In article <10n8c9i$fbh$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

    I always kind of resented Leela. I started watching DOCTOR WHO one summer >while visiting my grandparents in Boston. It was playing WGBH-PBS there at >the time. I didn't know anything about the history of the show. I didn't >know Baker was the fifth guy to play the role

    Tom Baker was the 4th, not the 5th.

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