Eh. I mean, he’ll probably be fine. Lightning might strike twice, he might Matt Smith us. It could happen. It’s an interesting step along the path of the Pertwee homages we’ve seen. While it’s been noted that he’s the same age Hartnell was in 1963,…
This time tomorrow we’ll know who the Twelfth Doctor is. I originally commented that I loved this post about how underrated the Sixth Doctor was, but I redacted it because I got to thinking about how this “role model” was primarily known for strangling his…
The insights are brilliant, and J.G. Ballard’s prose and imagery are impressive. Clearly this was also influential, at the very least on the Doctor Who episode “Paradise Towers.” Unfortunately, some of those brilliant insights are spelled out so explicitly, so on-the-nose that they’re robbed of…
While waiting in line to get our movie tickets, we were reminded by a monitor showing rotating trivia questions and preview clips that Monsters University is the only Pixar prequel so far. It sounds like an unremarkable fact, but there’s probably a good reason for…
The guys at Fanboy Planet, who are generous enough to run my Doctor Who reviews on their site alongside their much more diverse and comprehensive coverage of the world of fannish things, even more generously invited me to join them on their podcast last week:…
Spoilers within. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode…not that it would make much sense if you hadn’t. I could tell this was going to be a good one, because I got through about thirty seconds and then had to rewind to the beginning and…
A mystery preserved beats a poorly-solved mystery every time. Steven Moffat surely knows this, and that’s why I’m still betting we won’t hear the Doctor’s name tomorrow night; Moffat will find a way for us to have our cake but feel as though we’ve eaten…
Here’s the semi-traditional end-of-season ranking, leaving out the finale. It feels weird to include season 7a, since it feels SO different to me now. I can hardly believe how much more I’ve enjoyed the 7b stories than almost anything that’s gone before. Hide It’s picked…
We won’t learn the Doctor’s name this Saturday. Unless Steven Moffat has really come up with something incredibly brilliant that no one has thought of before, it’s not going to happen. He’ll whisper it to River Song, and probably also Clara, but we won’t hear…
After “The Doctor’s Wife,” a cozy little story about a man and his TARDIS, it was hard to imagine Neil Gaiman’s next script being a Cyberman story. It was even harder not to let my heart sink when “Nightmare in Silver” started out looking like…