tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post1177118415470620398..comments2024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:00Comments on Mirabilis - Year of Wonders: Tales of Old SkaroLeo Hartashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14417174942647091006noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-26267266693846774182024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:002024-02-03T13:09:38.313+00:00ThankssThankssDave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-21293169510533655762024-01-24T21:23:26.452+00:002024-01-24T21:23:26.452+00:00Very nice posttVery nice posttVeekohttps://vee-ko.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-20959660371801423462021-01-30T09:49:32.024+00:002021-01-30T09:49:32.024+00:00I hope I'd have behaved a little better than o...I hope I'd have behaved a little better than our Tel did there!Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-39577142917081287922021-01-30T02:44:07.354+00:002021-01-30T02:44:07.354+00:00Still, you can take comfort, as a writer, from the...Still, you can take comfort, as a writer, from the fact that the writer made a fortune, while the designer had to put up with the extra fiver he was given for his trouble...Paul Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825399893084157058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-53766031528858127882021-01-29T08:22:00.172+00:002021-01-29T08:22:00.172+00:00As a writer it pains me to have to agree. I wish I...As a writer it pains me to have to agree. I wish I could say the scripts had more to do with it, but what first grabbed my imagination along with that of a million other 6-year-olds was Cusick's remarkable design.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-12396688547095777752021-01-28T23:55:36.461+00:002021-01-28T23:55:36.461+00:00To be honest, I often incline to the view that Nat...To be honest, I often incline to the view that Nation is one of the less important elements in the Daleks' success. I put Raymond Cusick above him in importance, in that the look of the Daleks triggered the imaginations of so many people. If you imagine The Mutants, but with the Daleks looking like Marvin the Paranoid Android, I'd wager they would never have gone on to conquer the (metaphorical) universe.Paul Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825399893084157058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-4603729445670067182021-01-28T16:05:47.466+00:002021-01-28T16:05:47.466+00:00No argument from me on that score. Nation could be...No argument from me on that score. Nation could be a lazy sod of Thomsonian proportions. I believe we only got Genesis of the Daleks because Terrance Dicks rejected the outline Nation originally submitted: "Terry, you sold us this story once and called it The Mutants. You sold it to us again as Planet of the Daleks. I'm not buying it a third time. Write something new."<br /><br />And Power of the Daleks, probably their best appearance after The Mutants, was by Whitaker, who I think remembered Nation's point about Dalek psychology better than Nation himself sometimes did.Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-69218754623932793842021-01-28T12:52:33.293+00:002021-01-28T12:52:33.293+00:00It has to be said that after The Mutants, one of t...It has to be said that after The Mutants, one of the writers who handled the Daleks most ineptly was a fella by the name of Terry Nation. Unless you're going to tell me that Destiny of the Daleks (which also features Davros, of course) is better than anything David Whitaker wrote?Paul Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825399893084157058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-20654490483742643162021-01-14T11:15:26.355+00:002021-01-14T11:15:26.355+00:00If they had to do an adaptation of Hoyle's The...If they had to do an adaptation of Hoyle's The Black Cloud or Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes, they'd make the aliens' treatment of humanity something to do with bad parenting!Dave Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14468228790874490693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321339472666778123.post-5887716417623113632021-01-12T21:58:46.208+00:002021-01-12T21:58:46.208+00:00Love your observation about writers turning enemie...Love your observation about writers turning enemies into soap-opera ducky characters! It's so true. Evil. Alien. Things you can't understand. Those are frightening. Everyone isn't simply the result of a ducky incident.Baron Greystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636292202674906870noreply@blogger.com