Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4th November 2025.

4th November, 2025.

Yep: it’s Tuesday.

And … ?

I’ve run out of bacon.

So … ?

I think today’s daily stroll is going to be in the direction of a shop!

Heigh … ho!

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A few days ago, now, a man named Anthony Williams attacked passengers on a train heading for King’s Cross.

And is being investigated in relation to other attacks.

At one point, he’s reported to have said “… the Devil’s not going to win”.

Right now?

I’m grateful the man’s been caught — alive — and been arrested.

That means we — and his victims — get some sort of explanation for what he’s done.

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There’s a lot of talk about Dr Who, over the past few days: given the announcement of the planned 2026 Christmas special.

Some reports tell us that show runner Russell T. Davies will be leaving after that special:  as will Bad Wolf, the Welsh studio that’s been making the show for the past few years.

I don’t know who would replace Davies: but Pete McTighe’s name has come up.

As has Jack Thorne’s.

McTighe’s co-written The War Between the Land and the Sea, the upcoming spin-off: along side a lot of other things.

Jack Thorne?   Wrote the fantastic series, The Fades, many years ago: and the critically acclaimed, Adolescence, more recently.

I’d prefer Thorne: as The Fades impressed me.

But am very aware McTighe’s got a history with Dr Who.

And his involvement may — may — also mean Bad Wolf’s continued involvement.

Complete with its experienced production crew, and the all important TARDIS sets.

As stupid as the decision will be, if Bad Wolf aren’t willing to rent those sets out?

Whoever the show’s new producers are going to build their own.

That will cost.

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The other thing that caught me?

Are the reports that the BBC will be airing The War Between the Land and the Sea in December of this year.

And that Disney+ will be airing it in 2026.

I can guarantee many will be pirating episodes.

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Reign of Fire: Blood, Guts and 40 ft long fire-breathing reptiles over a post-apocalyptic London

You know, I can just about remembered reading a quote — although lord knows where I actually saw it — from noted science fiction writer, John Wyndham.

He of Day of the Triffids fame, in case you didn’t know.

To the effect that says he — Wyndham — tried to write science-fiction that had two words as the central idea.

“What if … ?”

Day of the Triffids … ? What if plants COULD walk … ?

Chocky … ? What if your child’s imaginary friend … wasn’t imaginary … ?

Oh, and The Trouble With Lichen … ? What if there was just one anti-aging treatment that actually worked … ?

Trust me, there’s a point to this.

You see, I’ve just had a quiet night in, with a borrowed copy of the 2002, Rob Bowman directed film, Reign of Fire.

And ended up thinking “Well … what if dragons really DID exist … ?”

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Which is actually a good question, isn’t it … ?

What if they did … ?

Well, I’m thinking, here, that the film I saw, last night …?

Was a very entertaining attempt to try and answer that.

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2002’s Rob Bowman directed film, Reign of Fire sees Christian Bale playing Quinn: a man who’s grown up in the aftermath of his mother’s discovery — some twenty years earlier, and told in a flashback in the first parts of the film — of a nest of dragons found during digging under London.

Twenty years on, of course, and the world has been devastated by Ash eating dragons, burning their way across the globe and by the nuclear bombs the USA has dropped in an effort to wipe out the dragons.

And left it to small groups of survivors, struggling to grow crops and survive dragon attack.

One of which is a community lead by Quinn: a man who’s struggling emotionally with the memories of his mothers death, and and to support the small band of refugees’s he’s struggling to lead.

Until one day … ?

One day, the group is joined by a bunch of American troops, lead by Denton van Zan — Matthew McConaughey, in full-on John Wayne* mode — a man who claims not only to be able to kill dragons …

But also to have a plan to wipe out the entire species …

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Now …

Have I used the word, ‘impressed,’ yet … ?

Well, no.

It’s certainly the case, though, that Reign of Fire is certainly a film I was impressedº by.

OK, granted, it’s not an art-house movie about the meaning of life or mankind’s capacity to enlighten an otherwise corrupt and degraded universe.

Of course not: it’s about Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey fighting 40ft long, fire breathing dragons, after all.

But Reign of Fire a VERY entertaining film worth both watching and investing in, I felt.

Here …

Let me leave you with this …

Reign of Fire

★★★★

* Or possibly Slim Pickens.

º Rather than — going by one alternative in my Thesaurus — embossed …