“Torchwood: The Middle Men” Review
The middle: piggy-in-the-middle, middling, in the middle of it all. Being in the middle can be good, or it can be bad. Or it can just mean mediocre. At the start […]
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“Torchwood: The Categories of Life” Review
Threes. Everything comes in threes. Being alive, after the miracle, there’s three ways for that. Strands of subplot in this episode: there’s three of them. But maybe one would’ve been […]
“Torchwood: Escape to LA” Review
I like slow-build long-fuse stories. I enjoy the atmosphere and the interplay between the characters, and wondering what each twist and turn will bring. Or at least I enjoy it […]
“Torchwood: Dead of Night” Review
After the two transatlantic set up episodes which have deftly interwoven the storylines of our principle characters, episode three spends the first fifteen minutes hunkering down with our new Torchwood team […]
“Torchwood: Rendition” review
The second episode of Miracle Day gives away a little bit more of what kind of a beast this new incarnation of Torchwood is. I’m enjoying it a lot. From last […]
“Torchwood: The New World” Review
When a show’s been good, I’m always a bit apprehensive about a new series. John Cleese famously ended Fawlty Towers after just 12 episodes, while it was still good. Regrettably few […]
“A Good Man Goes to War” Review
It’s rather late to be reviewing the “mid-season finale” of this year’s split Doctor Who, broadcast 3 weeks ago, and while this post has been festering my brain has been […]
“The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People” Review
So far this year’s Doctor Who has gone in a totally new direction: scarier, uncompromisingly complex and heavily multi-layered. At first glance, “The Rebel Flesh” may appear to be a […]
“The Doctor’s Wife” Review
In the past 24 hours the legendary status of last night’s Doctor Who episode by Neil Gaiman has been cemented online by a series of awestruck reviewers. It’s certainly a […]
“The Curse of the Black Spot” Review
After the plot-ful and pacey opening two-parter, it was inevitable that the this episode would be considered filler (especially with Neil Gaimen’s much anticipated story following next week). That’s fine […]
“The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon” Review
The pattern is broken. For five series since Doctor Who returned in 2005 we’ve had 13-episode runs following a fairly predictable pattern; this time the run is split, and opens […]
Object Oriented Storytelling
Fiction subclasses reality, overriding certain methods and implementing the interfaces of genres. I touched in a post yesterday on the boundaries of the fiction within a story, the fact that fictional […]