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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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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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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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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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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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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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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… 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