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Forgetting
> The human superpower: forgetting. If you remembered how things felt, you’d have stopped having wars, and stopped having babies. — The Doctor, ‘In the Forest of the Night'
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The Caretaker
At times, ‘The Caretaker’ seems to be explicitly trying to be 'the funny episode’, with that sort of 'funny’ music they play on TV when everyone’s sneaking around acting slightly out of character. I didn’t like these bits that much. Capaldi’s Doctor does an awful
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Time Heist
I’ve never been so freaked out by new-Who than when the unfortunate bank-visiting gentleman turned his bald head to reveal that it was now concave instead of convex. Yeesh. This serves to make the Teller a much scarier creature than he otherwise would be… and he would have been
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Listen
As the fine folks on The Incomparable’s TeeVee podcast [http://www.theincomparable.com/teevee/] pointed out, this is a story with a pretty weird structure. In a way, it’s sort of reminiscent of some of Moffat’s crazier breakneck stories in season six, like ‘The Impossible Astronaut’. Short
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Robot of Sherwood
I have a meh-hate relationship with Mark Gatiss’ Doctor Who scripts. At their best, they’re tolerably pointless. At their worst, they’re accidentally horrible, like ‘The One Where The Doctor and His Friends Shot a Crazy Old Lady and then Crushed a Defenceless Slug Creature’ [https://thegreatescapism.com/post/
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Into the Dalek
I knew this story was going to involve a crazy plot where the Doctor is shrunk and goes inside a Dalek. I did not expect it to be spliced with a mixed-up and brilliantly acted romantic comedy plot. This alone reminded me of the freshness in Russell T Davies’ first
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Deep Breath
Nine episodes in, I’ve realised that I’m really loving Doctor Who again, for the first time since series five, if I’m honest. As a result, I now feel like I should have been saying something about it. But I haven’t been. Well, not online, anyhow. So…
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This is a very exciting time for racists!
> This is a very exciting time for racists! — Michael Che, The Daily Show Podcast without Jon Stewart: Episode 3. Which is a really awesome podcast so far, if you’re a Daily Show fan.
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> Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can
Beyond unhelpful
> It is beyond unhelpful, especially as a heterosexual person, to have your reaction be ‘it shouldn’t matter’. Of course it shouldn’t. Nobody thinks it should. — Thorplease [http://www.brocklesnitch.com/brocklesnitch/2014/7/13/thorplease##It+is+beyond+unhelpful%2C+especially+as+a+heterosexual+person%2C+to+
John Safran visits a white nationalist rally
> This really is the “It’s A Small World” ride of white nationalist rallies. — On the march [http://www.smh.com.au/national/on-the-march-20140602-39d0h.html##This+really+is+the+%22It%27s+A+Small+World%22+ride+of+white+nationalist+rallies.] , John Safran
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Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow, 2014 [http://letterboxd.com/tomcharman/film/edge-of-tomorrow/] Fun, decently put-together sci-fi action, that actually vaguely kind of made sense. Particularly benefits from great performances by Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise–the latter is a particularly convincing wanker, and so really sells the character he starts out with.