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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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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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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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> 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
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Please don’t suck. Please don’t suck. Please don’t suck. (via the BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/The-Day-of-the-Doctor-50th-Anniversary-Special-Update] )
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I’m oddly ambivalent about Neil Gaiman’s second Doctor Who script. I quite liked his first: it had creepy moments and some excellent villainous and macabre characters. Of course, it also had the TARDIS getting mixed up about which door the “PULL TO OPEN” sign refers to, but I
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The best thing about ‘The Crimson Horror’ is that the Doctor isn’t in it for the first half. The worst thing about ‘The Crimson Horror’ is that he isn’t in it in the second half, even though they got Matt Smith to turn up anyway. But I’ll
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Since the Doctor is a hero who doesn’t use violence (usually), he presents, I guess, a reasonable challenge to the unimaginative writer. If you’re not capable of imagining clever ways around problems, then you might end up writing twenty minutes of the Doctor running around after tough guys
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Just taking the Doctor’s bow tie away makes him appear at least 30 percent more frazzled. This was used in ‘Hide’ to excellent effect.
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How wonderful to get an episode of Doctor Who that isn’t immediately forgettable. ‘Hide’ kicks several key goals that make you feel like it actually has a reason to exist. It has characters in it: not just vague ciphers, but actual interesting people who you get to spend a
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> To you, I haven’t even been born yet… and to you, I’ve been dead a hundred billion years. Is my body out there somewhere, in the ground? But here we are, talking: so I am a ghost. To you, I’m a ghost. We’re all ghosts,
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I think ‘The Rings of Akhaten’ was trying to do something interesting, and I really respect that. I don’t think it totally managed it, really, but good on it for trying. I mean, the singing was cute, and the scenes between the kid and Clara were heart-felt. But in
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When popular TV tries to talk about computers, and the internet, and other things that it doesn’t particularly understand, it can get really awkward and cringe-worthy. The second half of new Doctor Who’s seventh season, ‘The Bells of Saint John’, runs into a few howlers as it tries
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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