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“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?” - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife [Note: Plot spoilers for The Time Traveler's Wife and Doctor Who] It’s no secret that Steven Moffat loves Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. The book’s concept of lovers living in out-of-order timelines became …
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Between cherry pie, doughnuts, and damn fine coffee, it should surprise no one that Twin Peaks fans have a taste for the culinary good stuff. So it was with great interest that we stumbled upon Cakes Cove, a Toronto-area specialty bakery who just happened to make a Twin Peaks-themed cake! And we just had to find out more …
By Rachel Stewart “When I can see I'll try again I've got my paints” - The Big Picture, Y Kant Tori Read The BBC has been slow to roll out details surrounding Jodie Whittaker’s groundbreaking turn as the Doctor. At the start of the year, the new logo was blazed in gold against a darkened …
By Rachel Stewart “We should be on by now.” - “Time” David Bowie On July 16, 2017, the world was introduced to the 13th incarnation of the Doctor - and it was Jodie Whittaker. After years of speculation, the Doctor was finally a woman. Initial reactions ranged from ecstatic to raging mad. “Doctor Who” fandom …
Welcome back to Matt Armitage's and my bi-weekly column showcasing the art and artists inspired by Twin Peaks, and in some cases other Lynch works. This week I talk to the supremely talented comic illustrator, Paul Hanley, about his Twin Peaks creations and what other TV and film inspires him. 25YL: Thank you for talking to …
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In Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 'Gotta Light?', David Lynch flew us into the heart of an atomic explosion and away into a strange monochrome dimension where he gave us a meditation on atomic age paranoia, the nature of pure evil, the redeeming power of pure goodness and the promise of strange and uncanny …
For a show about time travel it’s remarkable how rarely Doctor Who ever addresses the paradoxical trauma inherent in the concept of visiting one’s own future or past. Outgoing showrunner Steven Moffat, the man who coined the term ‘wibbly wobbly timey wimey’, would probably argue that, of all the writers the show has had over …
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And who by fire, who by water, Who in the sunshine, who in the night time, Who by high ordeal, who by common trial, Who in your merry merry month of may, Who by very slow decay, And who shall I say is calling? Leonard Cohen It’s a foggy autumn night in London. To locate …
Welcome back Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Dale Bartholomew Cooper! Okay, this is it. Dale is finally homeward bound. This is the last leg of the journey. They played the Twin Peaks theme as he leaves the hospital - nothing could be more clear than that. Dale is going home. Let’s look at some …