Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Forgot to fix the intro after the previous book. This book has good chapters so it should just be a chapter an installment. This one even has 9 1/3 pages.
Last time we saw the current TARDIS crew–The Doctor, Ian, and Barbara–deal with their first travel without Susan. They got out of the ship and into the cave they materialized in. Excitement?
This isn’t the first time I’ve read this book but it is the first time reading it just after the episode it’s adapting. Actually, it’s the first time I’ve done this with any Doctor Who episode and I still haven’t watched the full version of Masque Of Mandragora though I have read that novel. It’s the only American novelization I have among my handful of British novelisations. (The spelling of novelization/novelisation depends on the country.) I know that this is the old days. Not a lot of the action even in later classic Who, nevermind what we usually get in the modern incarnations. Blame the time period, blame the budget, blame the presentation (still working like a recorded stage performance), or blame any combination of the three. It’s still an interesting story and one we’re going to get back to as we continue the adaptation of “The Powerful Enemy”, the first story in the arc.
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Netflix To Take Over Warner Brothers: What Does The Future Hold?
Well thanks a lot, guys. Now I have to push CBS Transformers off of the schedule this week because you drop this as people were going to bed last night. I had TWO installments auto-scheduled so today I could focus on getting my Christmas comic out by Christmas, but instead we have to talk backstage nonsense. Figures.
In case you somehow missed the buzz today, Netflix has won it’s bid to acquire Warner Brothers and everything that comes with it. Note that this is not yet a done deal. Final negotiations still have to happen, Paramount’s new owners Skydance, the most favored of the bidders, is raising a ruckus, and part of the deal is for Discovery’s side of things to take some stuff with them when they go, but for all intents and purposes the paid streaming service has won the day, the Warner Brothers back catalog, and the resources to make more theatrical and TV/streaming shows. Apparently everybody wants Warner Brothers…except people who own Warner Brothers. It wasn’t that long ago that Discovery Networks took this off of AT&T’s hands after they got it from AOL Turner Time-Warner.
Of course everyone involved with discussing the entertainment media have thoughts on the deal. I share some of those thoughts, and yet there are a few that aren’t being brought up that probably should. No matter how you look at it, this may be great news for Netflix and for David Zaslav’s accountant, but for the movie industry, fans, and various corners of geekdom this is not a good sign for the future. Let’s discuss.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 5, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Discovery Global, Hanna-Barbera, Netflix, news, Ruby-Spears Productions, Warner Animation, Warner Brothers, Warner Interactive, WB Games.
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