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I’ve been time-delaying my Doctor Who commentary in deference to American fans, many of whom have to wait two weeks to catch up to what’s being aired in Britain, but I think I’m going to go ahead and start dropping them as I write them instead. So my reviews of “Vampires in/of/whatever Venice” and “Amy’s Choice” . . . → Read More: posts from the future

In the midst of rushing to the scene of the Next Big Moment this season, a lot of people ask Doctor Eleven what his plan is, and he tells them he’ll figure it out when he gets there, or words to that effect. The first time was pretty funny, but the more he says it, the . . . → Read More: flesh and stone

Time was one of the reasons it took me a while to warm to New Who.

Classic Who, as you may know, typically ran stories in four installments of about 25 minutes each, so that a complete story would last 100 minutes. That’s somewhere between the length of your average contemporary Hollywood comedy and your average contemporary . . . → Read More: the time of angels

I’d list everything I hated about this episode but I would basically be quoting the script, word for word.

The concept we saw in the trailer — Daleks apparently helping the Allies in WWII — felt fresh and interesting, and there were so many ways it could have been explored meaningfully. That would have been quite a . . . → Read More: victory of the daleks

What makes Amy Pond’s rich history with the Doctor so interesting is that she has every reason to hate him. Consider: when she first meets him, he eats one bite of probably everything she has in her fridge or cupboards, making her slave over a hot stove at the age of what, eight? Then he inspects . . . → Read More: the beast below

This was a LOT of fun. Let’s start with the reasons it shouldn’t have been.

First there’s the new title sequence and the slightly different theme tune. They’re both shite. Though it could be worse: look at Caprica.

Then there are the overly familiar Moffat tropes: the girl visited by the Doctor at different, capricious times in her . . . → Read More: the eleventh hour

I’ve seen the first two episodes of season 5 of the new Doctor Who, and I’m so excited about them that I’m actually going to start writing in this blog again.

In fact, I’m seriously thinking about cleaning this one out and/or making a separate blog JUST to talk about Doctor Who. That’s how hard I’m nerding . . . → Read More: new who reviews