See the 12 February issue of the Tablet, an ultra-Catholic British weekly magazine, for a fascinating article about the Christian sub-texts of Buffy. Good for them in publishing something that will make many of their traditional readership sit up in surprise. By Gavin White, described here as a “former lecturer in church history at Glasgow University”. I wonder what he is doing now?
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Sharaz Jek is one of my all-time favorite classic Who antagonists, right up there with Sutekh and the Chief Clown. His costume and mask are so singular… there are so many times when DW’s costume designs are inexplicable visual noise, it’s quite startling when something so eerie and iconic comes along. The mask really does seem like the work of a beauty-loving perfectionist who’s become a twisted exile.
Weirdly enough, The Twin Dilemma is one of my earliest memories of Who… I caught a few moments of it on my local PBS station when I was eight or nine. A line like “Giant gastropods!” sticks in the memory.