‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Fires of Pompeii”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read till you’ve seen the episode! And no comments from party poopers — this is a love fest only.
David Tennant
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Partners in Crime”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read till you’ve seen the episode! (It airs on Sci Fi tonight…) And no comments from party poopers — this is a love fest only.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Voyage of the Damned”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read till you’ve seen the episode! (It airs on Sci Fi tonight…) And no comments from party poopers — this is a love fest only.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Army of Ghosts”/“Doomsday”
Russell Davies, you magnificent bastard. I told myself I wasn’t gonna cry. I’ve seen these episodes a bunch of times now, I should be over the crying. But I cry every time. Every damn time I cry.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Fear Her”
It makes for a refreshing change that the ‘villain’ is not some megalomaniacal alien who wants to take over the world for its own nefarious alien purposes, that it’s just a lonely child who doesn’t mean ill but is acting purely out of fear and a terrifying isolation.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Love & Monsters”
(intro to my Who blogging, please read before commenting / previous: Episodes 8/9: “The Impossible Planet”/“The Satan Pit”) When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. No, the truth is the world is so much stranger than that, … more…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Impossible Planet”/“The Satan Pit”
It’s like Milliway’s, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, except without the bar, this station on the impossible edge of a black hole, hovering at the edge of oblivion, and for what? Really, for what?
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Idiot’s Lantern”
So I started by Googling the phrase “idiot’s lantern” because it’s *such* a perfect euphemism for television, even better than “boob tube,” but I’d never heard it before, and I wondered whether scriptwriter Mark Gatiss invented it.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Rise of the Cybermen”/“The Age of Steel”
It’s probably not in the least bit surprising that the genre of the Information Revolution — science fiction — is the one that does satire on the tentacly power of the corporation so well.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Girl in the Fireplace”
It’s the Doctor’s tragedy in a nutshell. He meets an extraordinary woman, and in the space of an afternoon, falls in love with her, is challenged by her, and then loses her across the unspannable abyss of death…
