Recent content by Dr. Gargunza

Woogums LeFevre. ...I'm just going to concede now, thanks.

The railroad bridge sequence in Half-Life 2 ("Highway 17") gets me every time. You're hanging in the air, the "Point Insertion" music comes up again, and it feels so chilling and desolate. For console games (and this will show my age, har har), it's hard to beat the rooftop chase sequence in...

I have to defend H. G. Wells on that one: germ theory was relatively new in his time, and thus a pretty novel plot twist. Also, the idea that seemingly-unstoppable technological alien monsters could be felled by necrotizing bacteria was also a statement on the Martians' hubris. (Also, Wells...

Have you checked Netflix Instant View? They've got a couple of the surviving Troughton arcs on there, including the awesome "Tomb of the Cybermen." (I am, however, a bit ticked off that Troughton's "The War Games" is only available on disc--I've never seen the full arc, only about the last 1/3...

Tom Baker (#4) in "The Brain of Morbius." Saw it on PBS way back in the early 80's while staying at an uncle's house. This episode also introduced me to Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen, RIP), my favorite Companion. A fairly silly story with a ridiculous Frankenstein monster (a renegade...