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Uncle Josh on Doctor Who and the Fifteenth Doctor

Published by Uncle Josh on April 1, 2025

This is spoiler-laden. If you haven’t watched the end of the the 2025 season (volume 3 season 2) then click away now. A brief history of my relationship with Doctor Who: As a kid, people told me it was the kind of show I would like, but I never really got to see it, so …

Uncle Josh on Canons

Published by Uncle Josh on November 21, 2024

I read this Reactor.com article about how there is “no canon in Tolkien”. It’s been sitting in my head ever since. I have also been one of those people who worried that a TV show or movie was fundamentally changing the canon of some intellectual property. I am changing in how I view these things, …

Uncle Josh on Six Words

Published by Uncle Josh on March 1, 2024

Back in January 2022 when I started my latest journal I did a Six Words exercise which I believe came from one of the Art of Manliness’ Journal Prompts. The goal of the exercise was to record six words that defined who I am at my best, my goal state, my Nature (in the Stoic …

Uncle Josh on Eve of the Daleks

Published by Uncle Josh on January 3, 2022

Note: Obviously, spoilers ahead, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know. We watched the latest Doctor Who special. It was a time loop episode and those kind of stories can be tricky to pull off. The other time loop story that always comes to mind is from Star Trek The Next Generation …

Uncle Josh on the Thirteenth Doctor (Part 1 of ?)

Published by Uncle Josh on November 27, 2018

I finally watched “The Witchfinder” and read the review on io9 and the comments. I cannot comment there for various troublesome login reasons, so I thought I would blather over here. The io9 review points out that this is the first story where the now-female Doctor is being held back because of her gender. There …