The Robots of Death, The War Machines

[nwhyte]

My Christmas present (well, one of them) from my wife was the DVD release of The Robots of Death, and we just sat down and watched it yesterday after lunch (after watching the other single DVD I got, the 1995 Les Miserables concert - my Christmas haul of DVDs also included the first two seasons of the West Wing, which I have somehow managed to miss

Comments

[scott_lynch]

Cutesy robots do zero for me as well, but I have always found D84 to be one of the most endearing supporting characters in the series' history.

"Please do not throw hands at me."

[nwhyte]

Yes, I think every rule of literature should have at least one exception, and D.84 is certainly mine!

[blue_condition]

The Robots of Death is just a damn good mystery story in the English tradition, but a debt it definitely has is to Bester's Fondly Fahrenheit....

The sandminer crew are one of the few ensembles in Who who actually give the impression of being a group of professionals working together towards a common economic goal - I was reminded a lot of them by Impossible Planet/Satan Pit's crew of fallible, well-rounded, motivated professionals.

[bennmorland]

Gerald Ford has died.