We get the wrap-up to the "Monks Trilogy", with Bill helping the Doctor escape from captivity. The Doctor's manipulation of Bill was somewhat reminiscent of the way the Seventh Doctor would sometimes manipulate Ace.
The Monks were defeated awfully ea
Read more…This starts out like a cross between Doctor Who and the Da Vinci Code. This business of an ancient text that contains some horrific secret has been the making of a thousand crappy novels, and I don't really like it much better, here. To my mind, we'r
Read more…In which our heroes discover the horrors of space capitalism. The show's always tended to use evil capitalists as heels, even going as far back as "Planet of Giants" in the Hartnell Era. This attempts felt a little heavy-handed.
It's also an interest
Read more…A nice haunted house story, here, atmospheric and creepy. Another episode that they couldn't have done well before CGI.
David Suchet was good as the Landlord, pathetic and sinister at the same time.
More clues as to who's in the Vault, but nothing de
Read more…Another interesting episode. the show has always done these kind of period pieces well. I couldn't help thinking how impossibly lame the creature would have looked if they had tried doing this episode during the 1970's. CGI has really helped this sh
Read more…Finally got to watch this over the weekend. It was an OK episode, if a bit reminiscent of previous stories. The Doctor himself remarks that he's run into more than a few "last surviving" groups of humans over the years.
I was especially reminded of
Read more…I quite liked this, I thought it was a good start to Capaldi's last season. The story itself was good, and I liked Pearl Mackie and Bill, I think she has potential. I gather Moffat intended this episode to be a "jumping-on" point for new viewers, a
Read more…For a while now, I’ve been posting reactions to big “meaty” arcs such as The Eighth Doctor Adventures, Dark Eyes, Doom Coalition and The Collected War Doctor. Some of the stories I plan to listen to in the near future, though, are either one-off adve
Read more…Ever since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, the showrunners have continued to introduce interesting and unique alien races (or “monsters” in the parlance of the show’s fans). Quite often, though, species new to the audience will be introduc
Read more…The Sixth Doctor, my least favorite Doctor overall, is my third most favorite (behind the Eighth Doctor and the War Doctor) on audio. Like the other two [who got only a single outing as the Doctor (and a shared short feature) on the small screen], th
Read more…Saw this episode last night. It was a pretty funny pastiche of American super-heroes. I liked Justin Chatwin and Charity Wakefield playing the "Clark Kent/superman" and "Lois Lane" roles, and their interaction with Peter Capaldi's Doctor, who was al
Read more…Doom Coalition is, as of this writing, the most recent of the Eighth Doctor’s adventures yet revealed. It immediately follows Dark Eyes and, like Dark Eyes, is a sweeping 16-episode saga told in four parts. I’m always so eager to listen to these that
Read more…With no Doctor Who on television from Christmas day last year until Christmas day this year, 2016 was going to be my “Year of the Eighth Doctor.” But I finished The Eighth Doctor Adventures quite some time ago, and after that I took a nearly six mont
Read more…After “The Eighth Doctor Adventures” and “The Time War Saga—The Collected War Doctor” I took some time off from posting about Big Finish audios to catch up on some old Eighth Doctor stories from the time he was travelling with Charlotte “Charlie” Pol
Read more…The purpose of this thread is to discuss the War Doctor audios from Big Finish. Like the Eighth Doctor, who was featured in only one televised episode then went on to be featured in a long-running series of audio adventures, so too is the “War Doctor
Read more…I quite enjoyed this episode - a nice little comedy romp which sees the Twelfth Doctor encounter River Song. It's funny - I've never been the biggest River Song booster, but she worked better with the Twelfth Doctor than any of his predecessors.
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Face the Raven
1)Good to see Rigsy again, I liked that character.
2)"Did you make this human?"
3)"You've been retconned."
4)"She enjoyed that way too much." "Tell me about it."
5)Ah, the old hidden street trick.
6)And, there's Ashildr again.
7)"Someti
Read more…1)They're all Japanese-Indians?
2)"You'll consider yourself..." "Part of the furniture?"
3"Sleep dust?"
4)"You don't get to name things!"
Overall: Another one that I wasn't all that overwhelmed by. So, what, the bad guys win in the end? It felt too
Read more…The Zygon Invasion
1)I'm glad they finally addressed the Zygon issue from "Day of the Doctor", which I always thought was one of the biggest plotholes in that episode.
2)I liked the Osgoods' "Doctor Who" outfits.
3)"Doctor Disco"?
4)Nice picture of th
Read more…The first appearance of the Eighth Doctor was in 1996 in a TV movie designed to be the pilot for a new TV show. The series wasn’t picked up, though, so by that measure, the Eighth Doctor might be considered to be the least successful of Doctors. In 2
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