‘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.
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‘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…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “School Reunion”
How I bawled and bawled, the first time I saw this episode. Because this is it, right here, the Doctor’s tragedy, and the tragedy of everyone who loves him: he’s destined to be lonely, and we’re destined to be left because he thinks he can deny the loneliness by shutting us out when we get too close.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Tooth and Claw”
The most interesting stuff in this episode is not the werewolf — not that the werewolf ain’t cool and all. It’s the Doctor and Rose, and how relaxed and easy with each other they suddenly are.
