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Christmas list
> 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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Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
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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Asylum of the Daleks
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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Silence of the Astronauts, Part Two
How cool would it have been to have had a story where the imprisoned Doctor is forced to work with the CIA to solve some unrelated spot of oddness? (The answer is: very.)
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Silence of the Astronauts
What better time to talk about Doctor Who’s sixth season than when we’re getting remarkably close to its seventh? I know, right? I’m the man on the scene. But I can’t let it slide. I somehow managed to write nothing about Doctor Who in 2011, and
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Community
I’ve not seen any of season three yet, but for those who’ve seen season two of Community, you might find Dan Harmon’s epic discussion with the Onion AV Club of the making of that year interesting. In particular, you may be kind of disappointed at studio bosses
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What happened to stock
No matter how out of touch you are with the rest of the world, it's reassuring to know that there's someone else out there thinking like you. It's tricky avoiding spoilers for a show that finished over five years ago, but I'm
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Bang
You might not expect, for an episode called 'The Big Bang', to get perhaps the quietest season finale we've had since Doctor Who returned. No massive armies; just one Dalek, and not even a fully-functioning one. Oh, alright, and the potential end of the entire universe.
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These are just like after-images...
> These are just like after-images… echoes, fossils in time, the footprints of the never-were. — The Doctor, 'The Big Bang' (…which I'm totally halfway through writing about. Yes, I'm late, yes, I'm borderline irrelevant. I might have finished it tonight, but it
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PvPonline >> Brent And The Devil, Pt 8
PvPonline » Brent And The Devil, Pt 8 [http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2010/07/14/brent-and-the-devil-pt-8] I've been watching season one of original Star Trek, and this is so very true. Spock gets a lot of shit for being the sensible, logical one. He must feel like he&
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I Can't Stand the Tension
Oh, these stories with their first parts that are almost entirely setting up the next. It’s not fair. On some level I feel cheated, since I’ve gotten 45 minutes of television that was reasonably exciting, generally thrilling, but had it easy because it didn’t have to wrap