1)We start out with Clara seeing various old Doctors, including guiding the First Doctor in his choice of TARDIS (And we get to see the TARDIS' "default" mode), and witnessing the the most moronic cliffhanger ever, from "Dragonfire". Shame they could
Read more…1)So, he actually took the two little kids with him. It wasn't that long ago that he dropped off Amy and Rory because traveling with him was too dangeroeus, now he's dragging two kids along.
2)"Cybermites" - This, I imagine, was what the Cybermats we
Read more…1)Ah, it's the Victorian Odd Squad again. While I like the characters, they're a little bit too "public" for believability's sake. Also, Strax the Comedy Sontaran is amusing, but onyl in small doses, please.
3)It takes awhile for the Doctor to even s
Read more…1)I liked the idea of the space salvage team - the interaction between them was interesting.
2)"Don't get into a spaceship with a madman. Didn't anyone ever teach you that?" Dude, that's the whole show!
3)When the one guy tears open the console, I he
Read more…1)"It's 1974. You're the assistant." A little gag, perhaps, on the facct that "companions" were called "assistants" in those days.
2)"Ignorance is Carlisle." OK.
3)"Don't trust him. There's a sliver of ice in his heart."
4)"It doesn't like me." I
Read more…1)"Hair, shoulder pads, nukes - it's the 80's, everything's bigger."
2)"It's an Ice Warrior." Good to see the Ice Warriors again, I've been waiting for the show to bring them back. I thought the Marshal was reasonably well updated. He looked recogni
Read more…1)The Beano - are they still publishing that? I thought I remembered reading that it had ceased publication. Of course, that doesn't stop him from having an old copy around.
2)"She's not possible." I'm really weary of the whole "mystery story arc"
Read more…It is no great secret that I am not one of the Eleventh Doctor's biggest supporters but I am not very impressed with this episode on a few levels. That is kind of surprising given the premise.
An ethereal form is using a means of mass media to captur
Read more…A Land of Fear
1)"I have the universe to explore."
2)I like the way Ian and Barbara butter the Doctor up - they've learned to play him a bit.
3)"The Doctor's put us down right in the middle of the French Revolution." I like how they have more trouble w
Read more…You’ve seen the ads (if you buy any IDW comics at all): “CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF DOCTOR WHO! A yearlong celebration, featuring all eleven Doctors, starts here!” I was drawn in by the beautiful first issue cover art (by Francesco Francavilla) used in
Read more…1)The bitey snowflakes are an amusing visual.
2)"I said I'd feed you - I didn't say who to." Simeon's a bit reminiscent of Kazran Sardick.
3)Steam Age Souffle Girl seems interesting - shame they didn't go with her, it would be nice to have a "non-mod
Read more…Thanks to my good friend Jeff (Not that Jeff, a different one!), I got to hear a Doctor Who audio adventure that I'd never even known about before. It's a fun story - Ian Chesterton, Steven Taylor, Sara Kingdom, Polly and Nyssa find themselves on a
Read more…When I watch Doctor Who on television (particularly the longer serials), I prefer to watch one episode each night, but listening to audio recordings of the missing episodes, I have adopted a “more is better” approach. It’s easier to keep track of the
Read more…Episode One:
1)"By David Whitaker" (as largely re-written by Terrance Dicks and Mac Hulke)
2)Of course, the really fantastic part of this is the idea that Britain could afford a space program!
3)Michael "Davros" Wisher plays the TV reporter.
4)The Doc
Read more…1)And the damned statues again. This is an inherent problem with having the show-runner be the main writer. Writers fall in love with their favorites, and tend to overuse them unless there's someone to restrain them, i.e., the show-runner. But when t
Read more…1)"Invasion of the very small cubes - that's new."
2)"Ten years" - Ten years since when? Ten years since fish fingers and custard? Or ten years since Amy started traveling with the Doctor? At the end of the Narnia one, Amy said it had been two yea
Read more…1)This time the logo's alll metallic. Is this going to be a trend?
2)"Is you an alien?" interesting reversal, where he lands in the Old West, and they're totally unphased by him being an alien.
3)"He shoots people's hats?"
4)I thought the gunslinger
Read more…1)I like Brian Williams, he's a fun character. Nice of NBC to give him the time off to do it.
2)"Nice to meet you." Wouldn't he have met him at the wedding, or did Brian have the same flu Wilfred Mott had?
3)This time the logo is all scaly, very am
Read more…1)Skaro? Didn't the Seventh Doctor blow it up 25 years ago? I guess it got better.
2)I'm not buying the Amy/Rory divorce scenario. Not that our heroes couldn't have marital troubles, more that the scenario as presented seems too "manufactured", too
Read more…1)The idea to do a "miniature" story had been there from the very beginning, but apparently Louis Marks had read Silent Spring, which is where the whole pesticide angle came from. And thus we get Forester, Doctor Who's first "evil industrialist".
2)T
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