“The Wedding of River Song” Review
Three thousand years in the future, a time traveller meets someone. A woman. A woman he’s never met before, and yet who knows his name. “There’s only one reason I […]
Doctor Who
Pre-Finale Questions
Doctor Who reaches the season finale with The Wedding of River Song on Saturday. There are a lot of questions still needing an answer. If we don’t get all the […]
“The Coming of the Terraphiles” Review
I don’t normally take my Doctor Who in text form but I was intrigued by Glyn’s tweet. https://twitter.com/#!/egrommet/status/104136671590760448 For about the first third, I was convinced Moorcock was purely pastiching […]
“Closing Time” Review
A rare dud among this year’s Doctor Who gems, Closing Time for the most part is a by-numbers episode, not just the poorest of this year’s crop but not as good […]
“The God Complex”
“So what do Time Lords pray to?” Another episode of such quality can only serve to strengthen my faith in the supreme Moffatt. He’s shown he’s capably of putting together […]
“Torchwood: The Blood Line” Review
Almost anything I write about Miracle Day is going to sound like the damnation of faint praise. In fact I found The Blood Line a satisfying, if at times completely ludicrous, conclusion to […]
“Torchwood: The Gathering” Review
Two months later. There it is. The thing that makes a show that uniquely offers the pleasure of Bill Pullman being hit by a pan in Swansea (and other such […]
“The Girl Who Waited” Review
Any attempt I make at a critical analysis of this episode is doomed to failure. I think this episode may have been entirely without flaw. This is not just my […]
“Night Terrors” Review
It feels like a long time since we’ve spent an episode on present day Earth (The Lodger?). It feels even longer ago that we used to return there every third […]
“Torchwood: The End of the Road” Review
What was the point of that? Most of the developments in episode eight of Miracle Day had me asking that question. The momentum from the flashback episode was instantly squandered as […]
“Let’s Kill Hitler” Review
Daylight. For the first time since Utah, there’s daylight. That reflects the lighter tone in this densely packed story that ends the Summer hiatus in series 32 (or heralds the […]
“Torchwood: Immortal Sins” Review
Seven episodes in Torchwood has suddenly gone “classic”, with a flashback episode reminiscent of Small Worlds or Fragments from Jane Epsenson, but it is (at least for the first 40 minutes) very, […]