I haven’t regretted my decision not to review series 12 at length, but not because I didn’t like it. It’s nice to relax and enjoy the show as a fan and not as a critic, ignoring the stuff I didn’t like and focusing on the…
I’m sad too, Drogon. I miss your mom already.
Things I learned from Doctor Who: it takes eight minutes to build a surveillance network from spare parts around a subterranean drilling site, per “The Hungry Earth.” It helps if you’re a Time Lord, or maybe just have a sonic screwdriver. If you don’t have…
Now that I have every classic series episode on DVD (including the ones I had to buy on Region 2 because I couldn’t find them at a decent price on Region 1), I’m going back to watch the ones I haven’t seen in far too…
“It’s better the second time, if only because all hope that it’ll be vibrant and exciting is safely dead.”
During the Moffat era, I posted my season rankings pre-finale, because finales are so often either uncommonly great or massive train wrecks. This time I decided just to triage the series, since it divided so evenly, and since I found it difficult to order my…
“‘It Takes You Away’ appears to change genre throughout the episode — from cabin-in-the-woods-style horror to dark fantasy to Solaris-esque SF, but really there’s only one overarching genre at work: the fairy tale.”
They really backloaded this season with the good stuff, didn’t they? I spoke way too soon about favorite episodes last week. This is riveting Doctor Who, put way over the top in more ways than one by Alan Cumming’s delicious “I know everything about Satan!”…
“It’s likely that future Doctor Who episode guides will recall this episode as ‘never letting us look at bubble wrap the same way again.’ But there’s a chance — just a chance, but a good one — that I’ll recall it as ‘my favorite story of the Whittaker era.’”
Despite the obvious historical milestone of introducing the first non-spoof female Doctor, the Who accomplishment Chibnall’s era may be most noted for in the long run is reintroducing the no-win historical. Prior to this season, the closest we’ve come to a past-history episode in which…