1)BRITS...IN...SPAAAAAACE! It always amuses me how sci-fi tells you more about the time and place in which it was produced than about any potential "future" it might ostensibly be "predicting". Star Trek predicted a very "American" future, so it's
Read more…1)Watched the first story of the Moffat Era last night - it was fun. I thought the real star of this was young Caitlin Blackwood, who I thought did a very good job- it can be a real tricky business for a kid that age to be believable, but she carried
Read more…1)And so we come to David Tennant's final story. (No, I didn't have alot going on this weekend, as a matter of fact.) All in all, it's not too bad of a story, though it might've benefited from a wee bit of editing. And did anyone else notice that all
Read more…1)This is my favorite of the Tennant specials - in fact I'd go so far as to say that it's my favorite single Tennant story altogether. Interesting that his Doctor works best with a character who doesn't "hero-worship" him the way the other tended to.
Read more…1)This was an OK story, I guess - a different sort of "bus under siege" story from "Midnight". Can't say as I was too overwhelmed by Lady Christina - nothing against Michelle Ryan, but the character was fairly one-dimensional.
2)Malcolm and Mogambo h
Read more…1)This story featured the return of the Cybermen, but the real heart of the story was the Tenth Doctor meeting a man who just might be his next incarnation. I'd never heard of David Morrissey before I saw this, but he did a good job playing a "Doctor
Read more…This is an animated episode featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones, battling the space villain Baltazar (voiced by Anthony Head), who tricks them into going on a quest for "The Infinite", a mysterious object from the dark times. (How careless o
Read more…1)And now we come to what I like to think of as the Doctor Who answer to Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the Doctor and all of his spin-offs fighting a twisted guy with his army of faceless drones who wants to destroy all of the universes. Geez, they
Read more…As most of you reading this will be aware, episodes one and three of this six-parter are available on the “Lost in Time” DVD set. I liked part one because it was the first part of the story and therefore was easy to follow, but the stories moved so f
Read more…1)Another double-banking episode as the show takes another look into alternative time. We see how the various stories would've played out if the Doctor had gotten killed at the end of "The Runaway Bride". Most of it's handled reasonably well, althou
Read more…1)The first of this season's "double banking" episodes - this one focusing on the Doctor. It occurred to me while watching this last night, that it's probably only the third time I've watched, after the initial broadcast and when I first got the DVD
Read more…1)"Hello, sweetie." And so it begins. And, oddly enough, ends as well. While I've nothing against Alex Kingston, I've never been a huge fan of River Song as a character. It's just not a way I would've taken the character of the Doctor. In theory,
Read more…1)The latest "Team TARDIS meets a literary figure" episode finds our heroes meeting Agatha Christie. I'd never read any Christie before I saw this - I ended up reading a bunch of her books afterwards and becoming a huge Poirot fan.
2)We start off wi
Read more…1)Of course, the joke of this episode is that the actress playing the Doctor's "daughter" is the real-life daughter of the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, Georgia Moffett. The idea of a "progenation" machine is an interesting one, the thought of having
Read more…1)"Sontarans created by Robert Holmes" - Good to see the Sontarans, one of my favorites heels from the old show. I think they did a good job re-imagining them, although I'm not sure why felt a need to dress them in blue rather than in black. I liked
Read more…1)Ah, "Planet of the Ood", or, "The Sensorites" re-visited. Well, the show does so many stories about "humans menaced by aliens", it needs the occasional story about "Aliens menaced by humans." I like the Ood as critters, although I question how bei
Read more…1)This is another of my favorite episodes - an interesting first time trip for Donna Noble, where we get to see Catherine Tate really prove herself as a dramtic actress - I thought she was quite good in this. I also liked the interplay between her an
Read more…I wasn’t expecting the fourth set of lost television episode audios until next month, so I had a nice surprise earlier this week when they shipped ahead of schedule. I have wanted to see “The Macra Terror” ever since I saw “Gridlock” for the first ti
Read more…1)Now, we're up to the return of Donna Noble. From what I've read, when Catherine Tate was brought in as a companion, there was a bit of a stink, as she was apparently known mostly for comedy, and there were fears that she would "send the show up". O
Read more…1)Here we have the story that bridges the gap between the departure of Martha Jones and the return of Donna Noble. The main news is the stunt-casting of singer Kylie Minogue (I get the impression from RTD's book that he was just a wee bit star-struck
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