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We mistake the perception of Time travel to believe that is us that is being placed in a different era, whether our own or of future’s past and present, we believe that the unlikely happening is for our benefit and not for what is taking place. Time travel exists, it is though like evolution, we cannot fathom it properly because we insist that we cannot witness it happening, we cannot see it with our own eyes.
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood” …
When you leave the world with an era, a defining state of art that carries your name, then you have stepped into history, not as a memory that will fade, but with the assurance that like Kings and Queens of old, your name will persist for all time.
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The point, so many armchair detectives will sagely advise, is that the act of murder in literature is not followed closely because the reader wants to feel the essence of the criminal mind at work, but to know that the restoration of order is forthcoming, and that justice, be it natural, or in some macabre fashion, will be swift.
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Arguably Doctor Who is at its best when it steers clear of the stars and takes its rightful place in the Victorian folk horror and the melodrama which accompanies it. After all, the era itself lends itself perfectly to the idea of the supernatural investigation, the race memory of what the destructive pursuit of empire has wrought in the landscape and the name of progress, and the terrors that have been faced by the aspirational working class as lives were pushed to limit, and the soul of humanity forsaken in the grabbing hands of capitalism, and the quest for the new Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
There is nothing wrong with an author plying their trade and their name across more than one genre, in fact, it should be urged of them frequently less they become comfortable in their approach, and stale in their delivery.
Variety is not a spice of life, it is the very condiment to which inspires and keeps the writer echoing the likeness of death, and if you can’t change the scenery that you physically see because you are forever tapping away behind a desk, your fingers becoming numb, your mind racing with words, then the least you can do is alter the perspective of the narrative, vary the image, take part in your very own revolution from a foot away from the screen.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There will be those that look upon the events in Whitechapel during the summer and autumn of 1888 as the gift that keeps giving. A morally objectionable standpoint in which to view the murder of five or more women during the reign of fear imposed by one or more individuals as a sideshow, a ghoulish fairground in which many take delight in the detail without ever seeing the truth of the women at the time who were slayed, and the plight of the working class in a city that was at the heart of Empire.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The power to transcend your initial boundaries, your formative experiences, which like dogma you clung to and preached as your only guide in life, is such that if you can appear in more than a single place or reference at once, truly shows just how impossibly universal you have become.
The point of such illumination is to be a presence for others, not to stumble through life as though you are here but for a short while, but to know that what you learn, you can teach, and in that lesson learned you can be seen as influencing more than just one section of society, but across the whole spectrum of humanity.
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When you are young you want to identify as the hero, to be the one who catches the criminals and be seen as a warrior in the war against evil, to be Wonder Woman or Batman, Spiderman or She-Hulk; when you are young you want to be the hero, as you grow older, as you lose the ability to be optimistic and heroically naive, the more you understand the villain, the more you can see the world through their eyes.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are quick to condemn the guilty for the crimes they have committed, the awful acts of ruin and despair they have brought to people’s lives, we seek to justify calling them evil, even when it is clear that their actions originate in the complex and dark recesses of the mind, a trauma, the after effects of PTSD; it is just easier to label all who cross a line of civility and humanity as evil.
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Follow the trail, check you can still see the breadcrumbs that once lined your way on previous occasions you walked through the forest of words, and don’t forget your lamp which casts a thousand shadows, which brings you face to face with the nightmares and ogres of repression, those beings that take delight as they taunt you as sleep, as you live in your bleak desires and dreams; for If It Bleeds, then let the trail lead, let it escort you straight to the crossroads of Heaven and Hell.