Warning: spoilers. Read no farther until you’ve seen the episode It’s the fate of The Time of the Doctor to be overshadowed by the fact that it immediately follows the 50th Anniversary Special. In a way, it should be. While…
Month: December 2013
Dr Who: The Leisure Hive
The first thing you notice as Dr Who’s eighteenth season begins is that everything looks, and sounds, different. It’s 1980 now, and on screen is probably the largest visible change since the last decade turnover, 1970— when the series switched…
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Dr Who: The Horns of Nimon
“It seemed so small a price.” “It always does.” Before the final decline of the Classic series in the mid-to-late 80s, fans generally named The Horns of Nimon as one of the three worst episodes ever (the other two being…
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A Dream of Adventure
Sometimes I dream in stories. I love it when that happens. Last night’s was a particularly good one. The “visuals” were great (elaborate palaces and temples, and bleak dungeons underneath) and the story held together and mostly made sense— even…
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Dr Who: Nightmare of Eden
Warning: spoilers for the story This week’s story does a much better job than last week’s of keeping the silliness in check (with the exception of a couple of unfortunate moments). We’re still in Dr Who’s sitcom era, and so…
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Dr Who: The Creature from the Pit
I need to call the Brigadier for this one. Not Lethbridge-Stewart, the one played by Graham Chapman on Monty Python who’d show up to call a halt because things were getting too silly. This is Dr Who lost in its…
