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Doctor Who Reactions: "Empire of Death" (SPOILERS)

1. "I bring Sutekh's dust of death."  The Red Skull should sue.
2. "There will be birds."
3. The dust billowing through the city gives me "Crisis on Infinite Earths" vibes.
4. "Do you believe in the power of prayer?" I most certainly do." "Then tell your Maker that

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" (SPOILERS)

1. The TARDIS flying in and skidding to a halt is a cool visual, maybe, but what's wrong with it just materializing like normal?
2. "I knew Kate's Dad. He was the best of men."
3. "13 years old. Accelerated genius." I gather that  Lenny Rush is actually 16 year

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Rogue" (SPOILERS)

1. I'll say up front :I've never been a big fan of this "adventures of English aristocrats" stuff.  Not to sound like Dennis the Constitutional Peasant, but I can never forget that their oh-so-elegant lifestyle is made possible by their exploitation of

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Dot and Bubble" (SPOILERS)

1. Ah, so we're dumping on social media this episode.
2. "So, you're the rich kids!"
3. "I think  he's not as stupid as he looks." Nice.
4. "That was your first hug?" I don't get many, either.
5. "You're so good at walking." Yes, I am.
6. "Homeworld Population Zero"  Uh-oh

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Doctor Who Reactions: "73 Yards" (SPOILERS)

1. "We are in Wales." Aren't you almost always?
2. I've never been big on these "Doctor-lite" stories.
3. Nice to see Kate again.
4. "2031, the Great Russian War"". OK.
5. What the Hell was that all about?

Overall: Another fine example of Big Russ trying to be clever, b

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Boom" (SPOILERS)

1. The Anglican Marines- our Steven's getting in as many callbacks to his era as he can.
2. I'm thinking that the woman on the "ambulance" screen (Susan Twist) is the one that you're talking about.  She first appeared as Isaac Newton's housekeeper in "Wild

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Devil's Chord" (SPOILERS)

1. I've no idea whether that business about the Devil's Chord is real or not.
2. "I'm them." Pronoun trouble!
3. Did they sit down with Jinkx Monsoon beforehand and say, "Please play this part so over-the-top that characters like Witchie-Poo and Rita Repulsa wi

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Space Babies" (SPOILERS)

1. The Doctor gives a bunch of exposition up front, for the newbs, I guess.
2. "I'm the last of the Time Lords." Oh, come on, you know that others always turn up, eventually.
3. I like Rubathon Blue. Shame they couldn't have kept her around, at least for a whil

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Church on Ruby Road" (SPOILERS)

1. I gather that Davina McCall is a big deal in the U.K., even if she's not widely-known over here.
2. Likewise, Anita Dobson is a well-known soap opera actress over there, as well.
3. Ruby Sunday - another blonde from RTD. Hopefully she won't just be Rose Tyle

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Timeline of the Doctor's Regenerations (SPOILERS)

Timeline  Interesting.  I haven't seen some of the latest episodes ywt. I'll have more to say when I do.

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Doctor Who: The Last Day

In 2018 I wrote the following letter to Big Finish: 

I really enjoyed The Last Adventure, but how about a ‘last adventure’ for the Seventh Doctor? At the beginning of the TV Movie, the Doctor is returning from Skaro with the remains of the Master afte

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Giggle" (SPOILERS)

1. "Stooky Bill" was a real thing, not aomething made up for the show.
2. "You must be used to sunnier climes." "I was born in Cheltenham." The Toymaker being an ethnic stereotype and a racist is a callback to the fact that the original Toymaker back in the

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Wild Blue Yonder" (SPOILERS)

1. I gather that they caught a certain amount of heat for casting a non-white guy as Sir Isaac Newton.
2. The "mavity" joke was perhaps not as uproariously funny as RTD thought it was.
3. "There's something on this ship so bad the TARDIS ran away?" The HADS sys

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Star Beast" (SPOILERS)

1. We start with a recap of the story of the Doctor and Donna, which I suppose is a good thing for people who weren't watching it fifteen years ago.
2. The new opening is  OK.
3. "From a story by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons" which appeared in Doctor Who Weekly i

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Doctor Who: Once and Future

PAST LIVES:

The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form - instead, the Doctor’s past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly betw

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The Eighth Doctor: Time War Uncharted

I used to buy/listen to quite a few "Doctor Who" audios from Big Finish, mostly in my car during my daily commute to/from work, but the pandemic put the kibosh on that. My interest was primarily in the the Eighth Doctor, "my" Doctor. One way to save

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RIP William Russell

Story  Goodbye, Mr.Chesterton, it was good that we were able to see you that one last time.

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The Return of David Tennant and the Start of Ncuti Gatwa

The Doctor has returned with four episodes, three with Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and one fully focussed on Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth-- though he gets introduced in the third of these episodes. The post is not entirely spoiler free, so be wa

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'Doctor Who' Threads: A 'Moving' Appeal

OK, as some of you may have noticed, I have been slowly but steadily moving as many of the Doctor Who threads that are on the list of same into the new "Doctor Who" forum that the Skipper has recently created. I have now moved all of the threads that

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The William Hartnell Years in COLOUR

TRAILER.

I am generally against colorization of classic films, but this clip looks good. I don't know many details but I suspect the release will be confined specifically to the BBC's iPlayer. I do hope all the episodes make it to DVD eventually, but

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