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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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Time Can Be Rewritten: The Day of the Doctor
Time Can Be Rewritten: The Day of the Doctor [http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/time-can-be-rewritten-final-day-of.html] An infinitely more interesting examination of ‘The Day of the Doctor’ and the interplay between the Moffat and Davies eras of Doctor Who than my paltry rants. By the very clever Philip Sandifer,
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A Crappy Day (of the Doctor)
Oh, this is all spoilers, all of it. Don’t come near it if you’ve not watched ‘The Day of the Doctor’. It’s also a whole bunch of complaining. If you’d like to read something happy, read my jolly post on the same subject [https://thegreatescapism.com/
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A Nice Day (of the Doctor)
It’s becoming quite clear to me that I don’t particularly care for the premises of Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who stories these days. I love how he does them, but I’m rarely very keen on what… or indeed why, when I’m able to hazard a guess
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The Name of the Doctor
So, firstly, relief. They didn’t actually try to tell us the name of the Doctor. I was reasonably confident that they wouldn’t, after the whole issue last season when they said that the Doctor had definitely died, and it turned out that he’d been wearing a crazy
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The Ice Warriors
> It’s then that he issues the least scary command ever given by a Doctor Who monster: “Run down that machine as quickly as is safely possible. Sss.” As catchphrases go, it definitely lacks the snap of Exterminate. — Gary Gillatt reviews The Ice Warriors and shines a light on