Moved

On a whim, I have moved this blog to Ghost. Not much should change on your end, except probably the RSS feed will fill up with crap you’ve already seen.

Tom Charman

Feb 14, 2016

On a whim, I have moved this blog to Ghost. Not much should change on your end, except probably the RSS feed will fill up with crap you’ve already seen. But I promise to maintain the same tireless dedication to writing almost nothing at all that you’ve come to rely upon.

I say “on a whim”. I have been vaguely planning this for at least two years.

Dot and Bubble

We’re comfortably in the very good middle of the season here. Davies and the guest writers are doing really interesting stuff. Everyone’s happy. Rave: Ncuti is just amazing at the end of the story. After the monster at the end of the book is revealed to be... racism,

73 Yards

Constraints make for interesting results. Ncuti Gatwa still had to finish Sex Education (which he was amazing in) and so Millie Gibson handles one episode all by herself, with Davies in full “Midnight” mode. Rave: Just beautifully judged spookiness throughout the story. If I’m picking one bit (and I

The Doctor and Ruby standing inside the TARDIS.

Boom

This story reminded me that while I love almost all Doctor Who in one way or another... I really love Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who. Rant: I love the general idea of everything, and the aggressive criticism of the military industrial complex... but the “we’re fighting ourselves” thing seemed

The Devil's Chord

I’m finding writing reviews dull, which is why I’ve missed basically the entire season. I’m trying a new format which feels less tedious; Rant and Rave. I get the worst part of the story out of my system in rant, and then rave about my favourite bit.

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Dot and Bubble

73 Yards

Boom

The Devil's Chord