{"id":7254,"date":"2010-04-27T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/star-whale\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:30:07","slug":"star-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/27\/star-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><p>Harnessed beneath the floating future British metropolis, a star whale labored against zero gravity, acting as a gentle, unassuming engine to carry humans toward some uncertain destination. This is a near-spoiler, I suppose, since it gets at the gradually unraveling <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Smiler\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/who.jpg?resize=253%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"253\" height=\"186\" align=\"right\">premise of &#8220;The Beast Below,&#8221; the second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/dw\">Dr. Who<\/a> episode to air this season&#8211; Sat. night on BBC America. For the second consecutive week, I watched, not fully sure whether I would grow bored with Who&#8217;s kitschy special effects or impatient with the show&#8217;s fantastical excesses. Yet, like the week before (unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zap2it.com\/ithappenedlastnight\/2010\/04\/doctor-who-a-whale-of-a-tale.html\">some<\/a>), I was pleasantly surprised. 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