#Out of the Unknown

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Out of the Unknown | S1.E6

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? | 1965

[fibula-rasa]

Out of the Unknown

1.01 No Place Like Earth

[imdb]

Original Air Date: 4 October 1965

Direction: Peter Potter

Production Design: Peter Seddon

Visual Effects: Bernard Wilkie

Performer(s): Terence Morgan, Jessica Dunning, Hannah Gordon, Joseph O'Conor, & Geoffrey Palmer

"'But there's no reason to go back to the primitive. What's been said and worked out is all there in the books—books that are here on Venus. What I've seen for myself and what you've told me goes against it all. The thing they've set up is something like an ancient slave-state. We all know there's a better way of life than that—so, for God's sake, what's happening? With all the knowledge from Earth behind them, and the chance to build a new Earth here, surely they aren't going to pour half of history down the drain?'

'The other man looked at him for some moments before he answered, then he said:

'"Son, I guess you've got it kind of wrong. Building a new Earth is just what they are doing. What you're complaining about is that they've not started in building a new heaven.'"

— from "No Place Like Earth" by John Wyndham

[dateinthelife]

7 January 1969

George Harrison and maybe Ringo Starr watch a science fiction thing on BBC 2:

Starr: Did you watch the BBC 2 thing?

Harrison: Yeah, there was that science fiction thing. It was amazing. Did you see any of it?

Michael Lindsay-Hogg: I only saw the last five, three minutes.

Harrison: It started very strange, where they brought – they had a fellow on a trolley, and they pushed him in, like, a cupboard or a fridge.

Starr: He was the body, wasn’t he?

Harrison: He was just, like, a body, yeah, that they were gonna use. And they did something. They were supposed to be in the year 2100 and something. And they went back to 1969, January. Focused in on the M1 on this car, and made him crash so that he’d… and then they somehow take his mind or whatever it is and transplant it into this new body.

Starr: Into the body that he put in.

Harrison: Rex Industries, they were called. And then suddenly it turned into all that crap about medals and things. That’s what gave me the idea, ’cause suddenly it was the bit where they were all coming into the ball, I think it was Austria, and they all had their medals.

Starr: Oh, I didn’t watch that.

Harrison: And some music was just playing. Music, like a 3/4 thing. And so I just had that in me head, just the waltz thing, and it was fitting ‘I Me Mine’. There was no words to it, I just…

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

A.E. van Vogt  and E. Mayne Hull - Out of the Unknown - NEL - 1970

[downthetubes]

Doctor Who: A Mind-Robbing Minutiae Mystery!

Doctor Who: A Mind-Robbing Minutiae Mystery!

[helmstone]

The Naked Sun — some thoughts

The Naked Sun — some thoughts

My Isaac Asimov reread continues with the sequel to Caves of Steel — The Naked Sun. We return to the covered city of Earth long enough for our hero, Elijah Baley, to be given a new assignment — investigate a murder on a Spacer World! What’s the story of The Naked Sun? Here’s a blurb from the version I just finished: On the planet of Solaria, Spacers live in almost complete isolation, tended by…

[anothersuperstition]

will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?

[icaruspendragon]

something the women in my family are absolutely flabbergasted by every time it comes up is the fact that i don’t own a scale.

“how do you know how much you weigh??” they cry.

“i don’t.” i simply respond.

“you look thinner, have you lost weight?” they ask at christmas.

“i dunno.” i say as i check on the turkey.

“you look bigger, have you gained weight?” they probe, as if my weight rests on their shoulders.

“i’m not sure, but it’s fine if i have.” i respond with a casualness they cannot comprehend.

“don’t you want to know if you’ve lost or gained?” they inquire over cups of coffee and a plate of untouched cookies.

“i do.” i take a sip. “which is why i don’t need to know.”

“we don’t understand.” they say.

“i’ll drive myself mad if i know. it’s been a question i’ve been looking for the answer to since i was in the seventh grade and my weight was the topic of conversation for the first time; the stretch marks on my calves puberty brought being questioned and condemned. and so i started weighing myself once a day. then twice a day. i gained weight as i grew and was told to stop. i got depressed when i was 16 and the weight i gained was more concerning than the scars on my thighs. the critiques turned to compliments during my first year of college when i’d started skipping meals and my body had to feed itself because i wouldn’t. everyday i stepped on the scale and smiled as i watched that number get smaller and smaller. hunger felt like victory. i started doing drugs that took away my appetite and then my strength. and started feeling guilt when my stomach felt full. and suddenly every time i looked in the mirror i hated what i saw. the more weight i lost, the better i was supposed to feel. each remark on another part of my body lost felt like a slap to the face. i was told i looked good but i knew i wasn’t good enough. and so i tried harder. and then i started to get dizzy when i stood. and i ignored it like i’d learned to ignore my hunger. and then one day at work i dropped like the weight that was never enough after i bending at the waist to grab a milk cap from the floor. and when the darkness faded, i was surrounded by panic as an ambulance was called. and then i was tested and prodded and poked because they thought something was wrong with my heart. and the problem persisted but they never found out why. but i’d known all along. and then i left home and its scale behind. and moved into a new home that was mine. so i bought plates and sheets and art for the walls. but i didn’t buy a scale. then every time i walked down an aisle i’d see the them and pause. and i’d think about the hunger i now kept at bay. and even though i didn’t know how much i weighed, i didn’t notice my body had changed. and i’d think about how i hadn’t been dizzy for months. and how i hadn’t fainted for longer. and then i’d keep on walking. and now most days i like how i look.”

“but don’t you want to be skinny?” comes their quiet response.

“i want to be myself in whatever body i have.”

they stare in disbelief. so i shrug my shoulders, and grab a cookie. and i smile at them as i swallow the first bite.

[saturncodedstarlette]

Vox : There is no Easter bunny. There is no tooth fairy. And there aRE NO HOT MILFS IN YOUR AREA

Y/N : BUT THE AD SAID—

Vox : THE AD IS A LIE

[coulsart]

This has been done for like four hours but I just got the chance to filter them for the internet - happy DLC day yay yay! We love that worm!

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny, desperate to get someone competent to help him with his growing problems in Amity, travels to a dimension full of heros and villians and in true Phantom fashion, overshadows one of the first Heros he sees- Nightwing.

He immediately tried walking away to a more discrete location to create a portal but was interrupted by Nightwings allies who were very suspicious of Nightwings sudden change in behavior. Unfortunately for Danny, he wasn't fooling anyone and made a run for it. He wound up ditching Nightwing and disappearing.

Danny, seeing how amazingly competent these people are, only becomes more determined to kidnap them and take them to Amity...

[fibula-rasa]

Out of the Unknown

1.01 No Place Like Earth

[imdb]

Original Air Date: 4 October 1965

Direction: Peter Potter

Production Design: Peter Seddon

Visual Effects: Bernard Wilkie

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Yuan likes boys. So, how can I push him away or judge him like other people? So you held him to sleep? He held me. Not the other way around. But you seemed to enjoy it.

[downthetubes]

Keith Page’s Alternative TV Viewing

Finding it increasingly difficult to find anything worth watching on modern television, comic artist and writer Keith Page finds it more interesting to go back to the dramas of the 1960s through to the 1980s

Finding it increasingly difficult to find anything worth watching on modern television, comic artist and writer Keith Page – creator of The Adventures of Charlotte Corday, Strawjack and Hancock – The Lad Himself, with Stephen Walsh – finds it more interesting to go back to the dramas of the 1960s through to the 1980s.  “There was a far wider selection of themes, sharp scripts and no ‘agendas’ or…

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo’s tendency to push his way into the spotlight despite clearly being a natural in the shadows. Hell, you could argue that his worst moments are when he’s forcing himself onstage, and his best are when he does things no one notices until it’s already been done.