Doctor Who
It’s the fiftieth anniversary year of Doctor Who, and podcasts are springing up like… um… things that… I’ll get back to you. I’m having a bad day for similies. Anyhow, podcasts are tricky things. I find I prefer them when there’s at least: 1. Someone who
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I didn’t write anything about ‘The Power of Three’ because I was lazy. I didn’t write anything about 'The Angels Take Manhattan’ because if you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all. And, still, lazy. 'The Snowmen’ was better
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I have a fondness for Westerns. I have a fondness for Doctor Who. What could be better? This story had somewhat bewitched me from the beginning. I love a pre-titles sequence without the Doctor in it, and I love to see the Doctor wander into a horrible situation in full
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I just wrote a tirade about ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’ in email form. I’ve clearly got some issues to work through. Maybe after I write up ‘Mercy’ and 'Three’ I’ll be more appreciative. I will say this, though: you can’t make “fixed points in time” some
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> Anachronistic electricity, ‘keep out’ signs, aggressive stares… Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list? The Doctor, in the middle of a solidly awesome run of Doctorishness at the beginning of ‘A Town Called Mercy'
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After being burned a few times before, watching an episode written by Chris Chibnail which turns out to be “kind of entertaining” is rather relieving. Of course, I’d rather Doctor Who was aiming for more than “kind of entertaining”, especially in a year where I’ll only be getting
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> I hate funny robots. The Doctor, ‘The Waters of Mars’, commenting in advance on ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’. Which was actually kind of alright. Except for the robots.
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It has been said that the Doctor is worth the monsters. Similarly, ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ is worth the nonsensical. I don’t like making excuses for stories, but it’s an achievement to write an ambitious 45 minute episode which manages to paper over every crack. 'Asylum’ doesn’
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I have more to say about ‘Asylum’, but once again I haven’t managed to write it all down yet so instead I present this picture from the BBC’s gallery. Which, frankly, should be distracting enough for anyone.
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> Without a gun, you’re a tricycle with a roof. The Doctor on Daleks, ‘Asylum of the Daleks'
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> As for me, my favorite epic theory about Doctor Who remains that Graeme Harper and Robert Holmes are both, as ‘The Brain of Morbius’ suggests, pre-Hartnell Doctors, and that the making of 'The Caves of Androzani’ is itself a multi-Doctor story that explains how the Doctor got around