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Obras por Graeme Burk

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Short Trips and Side Steps (2000) — Author "Turnabout is Fair Play" — 137 exemplares
Short Trips: Steel Skies (2003) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Short Trips: Transmissions (2008) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
c. 1970s
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Canada
Local de nascimento
Canada

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Read this a while back. Superbly detailed and fun explanation of Seasons 1-6 of New Who. Helped me watch for the important details and understand the show better. Perfect for a newbie.
 
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Alishadt | 5 outras críticas | Feb 25, 2023 |
I think I would have liked this book so much better if it had been a pure book of information instead of two fanboys thoughts about all the Doctors, episodes, etc. I haven't seen the old classic Doctor Who so I thought it would be interesting to read about the series, but frankly it was too much about how Graeme Burk and Robert Smith? (Yes he really usees a ? after his name) thoughts about everything and anecdotes about their lives growing up with Doctor Who.



Still, there were some parts of the books I liked, the descriptions of each doctor was the best part, well until Robert Smith? decided to diss David Tennant and praise Matt Smith.



The only positive thing about that was that Graeme Burk thought vice versa.



The chapter about Christopher Eccleston was, however, really fantastic.



Also, I should probably have stopped reading after Matt Smith's chapters since they spoiled the season with Peter Capaldi that I have only seen the first episodes of. So, I kind of just skimmed the episodes they brought up (hell I skimmed some of the episodes from the classic show also, to much fanboys moments and I really do not need to know everything about the episodes before I watch them).



The worst thing is that I felt that I wasted time on the book and that is the worst feeling ever after reading a book...

I received this copy from the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review! Thank you!

Review also posted on A Bookaholic Swede and It's a Mad Mad World
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MaraBlaise | 1 outra crítica | Jul 23, 2022 |
An informative and opinionated guide to modern Doctor Who, episode by episode, starting with "Rose" in 2005 and covering everything up through "The Wedding of River Song" at the end of season 6, partway through the Eleventh Doctor's stint. It also (briefly) covers some additional material that was aired on TV, including a couple of animated specials and some individual scenes filmed for charity programs, and provides some background on various elements of the show, which may be especially helpful for viewers not fully versed in the classic series.

The analysis of each episode includes things like references made in it to previous stories, how the episode relates to whatever the ongoing story arc might be, a few lines about things like the Doctor's characterization and the development of his relationship with his main companion, plot nitpicks, and the episode's best and worst individual moments (although some of the selections for those are... surprising).

But it's the sections at the end of each segment, in which the two authors take turns offering up their own opinions on the story, that are by far the most interesting. Some times they both agree with me on something and I get to feel the nice, warm fuzzy glow of fannish harmony as we all reminisce happily about, say, how unbelievably good Christopher Eccleston's acting could be. Other times, of course, they are just very, very wrong. Smith?, in particular, often comes across as rather bizarrely contrarian, and Burk eventually spends way too much time pouting about how story after story isn't nearly enough of a "romp" for him. But disagreeing passionately with other Doctor Who fans, if it's done good-naturedly, is a venerable and highly entertaining pastime. The authors do it amongst themselves here, too, often cheerfully accusing each other of "having no soul" for disliking some bit or other of the Doctor Who canon.

It's all good fun, really, and it's also given me a bit of a hankering to go back and watch some stories that I haven't revisited in entirely too long.

There is, by the way, already a followup volume to this: Who Is the Doctor 2, which takes things up through season eleven (the first year of the Thirteenth's Doctor's era). I may have already added it to my TBR pile...
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bragan | 5 outras críticas | Jan 30, 2022 |
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it covers the first six series of New Who in detail, four RTD and two Moffat (ie Ecclestone, Tennant and the first two of Smith). The presentation is much more on reaction than data - few production details, but every story gets sections (sometimes very short) titled "Stand Up and Cheer", "Roll Your Eyes" and "You're Not Making Any Sense". The two writers then present their views of each story, which often agree but sometimes diverge rather drastically. Endnotes to some chapters explain various Whovian concepts eg Daleks, Tardis, Master, etc.… (mais)
 
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nwhyte | 5 outras críticas | Mar 11, 2018 |

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