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We’ve held a village referendum

“They’re Galvy and the ‘cron, they’re Galvy and the ‘cron, one is a planet, the other was Megatron. To add to their cosmic crimes, they’ll annihilate more Primes, they’re Galvy, they’re Galvy and the ‘cron, ‘cron, ‘cron, ‘cron, ‘cron…”

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Knowing that Maurice LaMarche based his “Brain” voice in Animaniacs on Welles, all I could think of tonight was: “The same thing we do every night, Galvatron. Try to destroy the Matrix of Leadership”.

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Yeah, somebody must have pulled some serious weight in the contractual negotiations.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I saw it in the cinema tonight for the first time. I was astounded that Eric Idle got first credit. But I punched the air when Dare to be Stupid kicked in.

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That was lovely, in a silly 1980s bullshit sort of a way. And they finished it with Peter Cullen’s final performance in Optimus Prime: Awakening, which was really nice.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

About to see Transformers: The Movie on the big screen, redressing a grievous wrong I felt I was done 40 years ago.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This constant desire to recreate bits of the past shows no creativity whatsoever. It’s just fetishisation.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watching the 2002 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles and two of the cast are, coincidentally, in the same Doctor Who episode (Richard E Grant and Neve McIntosh,The Snowmen). If anyone keeps a list of such things.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The twist: it was a Tom Baker episode. The letter was from one of Katy Manning's next-door neighbours.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? … I lied.”

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Waiting on the doggy’s blood test results. I know he’s old, and we’ve long since resigned to the fact that he’s not immortal, but it’s still a worry.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And Dolly was an uncredited producer on Buffy. Buffy > Anthony Head > Dcotor Who.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In my headcanon, Barry, Hal and (yes, sadly) Ollie are all dead, and Wally, Kyle and Connor have all stepped up to fill their roles permanently.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Name your fav film from when you were 17. I’m spoilt for choice, but going to be boring.

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Man in Suit Making Hand Gestures

ALT: Man in Suit Making Hand Gestures

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you see this, post a character that starts with W.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Alec Guinness as George Smiley.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Date yourself with an image of your first ever computer. (but we got this secondhand, in 1991, by which time everyone else had Amigas or Atari STs)

OotS is the best, though. I got into it when it did the Gygax tribute page, and I’ve followed it ever since. Got all the softcovers, too.

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I’m only sticking with OotS and Girl Genius (I just did a *huge* catchup on that, so it’s all fresh ). Gunnerkrigg Court disappeared up its own arse a long time ago, and the slice-of-life-y ones have rather outlived the point of themselves now.

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He’s on a very slow update rate right now because of a thumb injury, so if you can catch up you’ll not be overwhelmed. And it’s maintained its earlier quality, and then some.

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Episode 8 has screwed with my head. And I didn’t like the little stabby bloke either.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Getting ready for a weekend-long cinema marathon of Twin Peaks Series 3, which I haven’t yet seen in its entirety. Not quite sure if my brain will ever be quite the same afterwards.

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Which Doctor Who writers *wouldn't* you be surprised if you found out they founded the National Front? Is there something I should know about Pip and Jane Baker?

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I really rate The Unicorn and the Wasp as well. At his best he has a sort of sly self-awareness and a refusal to take himself seriously - both ironic, considering the "Doctor Who's Graham Linehan" role he's descended into.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I still get probably quite irrationally cross about the people saying "Gareth Roberts was always a shit writer" when it was revealed he was a transphobe. Some of his novels in the 90s were bloody great, and I'll stand by that regardless of how much of a prick he makes of himself.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy “New series of #Taskmaster” day! Regardless of him, or him.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yep. So mild-mannered, and so brutal with it. And he genuinely believes everything he does is justified. There's something creepily "real" about him.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Name a character you can't stand. This prick. But he does get the best death scene in the history of TV.

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Babylon 5: Refa's 'Why Did You Do This?'

Alt: Babylon 5: Refa's 'Why Did You Do This?'

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kipling’s poem “Danegeld” will never not be relevant.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m not a fan. I certainly don’t know it that well. I think, if I was going to pick a British sci-fi show, I might be tempted to go for Red Dwarf.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh fuck no. Some of the Forgotten Realms are half-decent (aside from bloody Drizzt), but they’re very few and far between.

Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I got home in the small hours to see a report on Ceefax that Dodi was dead and Diana had a broken leg. I thought "She's going to milk everything she can out of this", and went to bed. It's a good job there was no social media then, as I'd have been retroactively upbraided for posting that.

Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reposted by Colin Hicks

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I often find myself wondering if I'm on a list of local twats.

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Colin Hicks @docfilth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm more than a little dubious about this claim that JKR gets kids reading. How many kids who weren't readers before they read the Potter books carried on reading other books afterwards? And how many of them just read those and then went back to whatever else kids do these days instead of reading?