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Sarah Jane Adventures - Season 5

The fifth and final (partial) season of The Sarah Jane Adventures will be available on DVD in the U.S. on June 12, 2012, six episodes and a documentary.

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Lodger" (SPOILERS)

1)An odd little episode, most of which is concerned with what it would be like to have the Doctor as a roommate. As such, it's got a number of amusing moments, with the Doctor making awkward attemots to be "normal". I gather James Corden is pals with

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Vincent and the Doctor" (SPOILERS)

1)Another "Team TARDIS meets an important cultural figure" story, this time Vincent Van Gogh.  Interesting casting choice, I hadn't realized that Van Gogh was a Scotsman.  As with Shakespeare, we're given the notion that Van Gogh can (literally, in t

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood" (SPOILERS)

1)In this story we get the re-invention for the new series of the Silurians, creatures first seen back int he 1970's. I can't say as I was perfectly happy with the new version of these critters - I accept that they had to be "modernized" a bit - the

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Amy's Choice

1)Another pivotal episode, as we finally get to see Amy decide where her priorities lie, whether with the Doctor or with Rory, which is good, because that whole storyline was beginning to be a bit wearisome.  We also get Rory's first "death", startin

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Doctor Who: 'The Ark in Space'

The first 9 months Channel 12 in Philly had DOCTOR WHO, they ran the stories completely out of sequence. No kidding. It was like, "ROBOT", then "THE SONTORAN EXPERIMENT", then "REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN"... no, not just every-other one. But I can't rem

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Vampires of Venice" (SPOILERS)

1)Now we get a "vampire" story, used essentially as a background for developing Rory as a character, and for developing the relationship between Rory and the Doctor, as well as that between Rory and Amy. I liked the way they had Rory criticize the Do

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone" (SPOILERS)

1)This story sees the return of the Weeping Angels, although I have to admit that I'm not perfectly happy with how they are handled. To me, the interesting thing about the Angels was their unique way of despatching their victims - sending them back i

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Victory of the Daleks" (SPOILERS)

1)The Daleks again - this time being all passive-aggressive. One gets the impression that this is the closest they come to pulling a practical joke on someone.  I do wonder why they build machines that they have to get other people to open for them.

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Doctor Who Reactions: “The Evil of the Daleks”

I have wanted to experience this story in its entirety somehow ever since I saw the second (and only existing) episode (of seven) on the “Lost in Time” DVD set. I don’t know if this one, being a Dalek story, was ever adapted into paperback, but even

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

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Eleventh Hour" (SPOILERS)

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The End of Time" (SPOILERS)

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Waters of Mars" (SPOILERS)

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.

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Planet of the Dead" (SPOILERS)

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Next Doctor" (SPOILERS)

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Infinite Quest" (SPOILERS)

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" (SPOILERS)

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: “The Faceless Ones”

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

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Doctor Who Reactions: "Turn Left" (SPOILERS)

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

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