1)Here we have the introduction of the Doctor's newest companion, Martha Jones, as played by Freema Agyeman. I quite like Freema, and have nothing against Martha as a character - if I was less than overwhelmed by her, it's because after all the soap
Read more…1)In Catherine Tate, we have another person who was apparently a big deal in the UK, but of whom I had somehow managed never to hear prior to her appearance in the program. The impression I have is that there was alot of fear that all she could do w
Read more…1) Went back and re-watched the first story last night. The thing for me was, I was already fairly steeped in the show's mythology by the time I saw this, so I find it harder to imagine what it was like to see it when the viewers had no idea what to
Read more…1)At long last, Rose Tyler's reign of terror is almost over! ;) As I've said before, I actually kind of like Rose, but I do feel that she is somewhat overrated as a character. That said, she had some good moments in this story. "This is the story o
Read more…1)For whatever reason, I've always had trouble buying into the whole "people being turned into drawings" aspect of this, which has colored my perception to the whole episode. There's actually some good scary moments in this, including a "monster" tha
Read more…1)I'm not generally a big fan of these so-called "Doctor lite" episodes. I understand they have to do them for practical reasons, and one or two of them have been OK, but they're not my favorites. If I'm watching Doctor Who, I want to see the Doctor.
Read more…(Taking a break from the adventures of the Tenth Doctor - I need to steel myself before the horrors of "Love & Monsters" and "Fear Her", so I decided to reach back and watch something that was better-written.)
1)Of course, the main thrust of this is
Read more…1)Well, now we get the new show's take on a perennial of the old show, the "base under siege" story, with a diverse bunch of characters in an isolated situation being picked off one by one by an ibnsidious threat. I always liked these kinds of stori
Read more…1)A lightweight episode, somewhat redeemed by the fun performance by the woman who plays the Wire. ("Hungry!") I gather there's alot of references to early British TV here ("Alexandra Palace", "Muffin the Mule", and so on), that probably mean more t
Read more…1)So, now we get the new show's take on the Cybermen, in conjunction with the return of Peter Tyler. Certainly, the use of a parallel world is an acceptable science fiction way to bring back a dead character. On the other hand, I wasn't too wild at
Read more…1)Another scary story from Mr. Moffat - with clockwork robots, and a literal "monster under the bed". The idea of using body parts as technology is sufficiently creepy. I question the logic of the robots' solution to their situation - cannibalizing t
Read more…1)Ah, the late, great Elisabeth Sladen. As I've said elsewhere, the team of Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen were what got me hooked on the show. They weren't my first Doctor/companion combo, but they're the ones that really "clicked" for me. If they
Read more…1)I thought the werewolf was pretty well-realized in this. I'm not sure how an alien werewolf leads to Shaolin monks in Scotland, but, oh, well. There were some genuinely scary moments in this. The implication that the royal family are all werewolves
Read more…1)"Further than we've ever gone before." I liked this story OK, but I always thought that setting it in the year 5,000,000,000 was a bit much - not that the TARDIS couldn't go that far, but that it seemed unlikely to me that people that far in the
Read more…(The DVD set includes a "Children in Need" special, which is a brief bit set between the end of "The Parting of the Ways" and the start of "The Christmas Invasion". Basically, the scense concerns Rose freaking out a bit and the Doctor having a bad r
Read more…This was the second movie derived from Doctor Who, this one derived from the serial "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" As with the previous movie, the script follows the serial fairly closely, with one of two exceptions which I will note when they come up
Read more…One of the earliest WHO stories I ever saw, back in the '70s, and the first one I saw every episode of (having missed the last 3 parts of "THE SILURIANS" and Parts 4-6 of "THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH"). More frightful and horrific than usual, especiall
Read more…I'd been meaning to re-watch this picture for quite some time. For those of you who are not familar with it, in 1965, a theatrical film was produced re-making Terry Nation's first Doctor Who serial, "The Daleks". The plot follows the TV version
Read more…1)I've never seen most of these shows they're parodying, except for the one episode of The Weakest Link which had a bunch of pro wrestlers, and Booker T. was asked to name a single word of French and couldn't do it, and William Regal and the Anne Dro
Read more…1)According to our Russell on one of the extras, this was meant to be this season's "cheap" episode. If so,, then I think they did a good job covering it up.
2)The "Previously" part kind of gives away who the baddie is going to be in this one. Perhap
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