Up early to get to a breakfast meeting in Brussels, and it is clear enough to see no less than three bright planets – Mars in the west, glowing bright red at the feet of Gemini; Jupiter Saturn to the south, grazing Leo’s belly; and Venus emerging in the morning twilight, perhaps in Virgo, can’t be entirely sure from here. There are compensations for an early start.
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Ghost Light really is fantastic. And you are too charitable to The TV Movie.
I think the heroic wizard-scientist transformation only really kicks in at the start of the Dalek Masterplan. It’s the first story where he steps up immediately and takes responsibility for beating the bad guys, and moves from being the giggling grandfather to the guy at the centre of the story.