“The Fear Merchants” Review
Despite the fantastic opening (an agoraphobic man in dressing gown wakes up to find he has been left in empty stadium) this episode fails to excite. The only other decent […]
Despite the fantastic opening (an agoraphobic man in dressing gown wakes up to find he has been left in empty stadium) this episode fails to excite. The only other decent […]
The second doppelgänger story (after The Man With Two Shadows). This one has a different twist… It’s a story which features a lot of models in different senses. Col Psev […]
Oops. I should have posted this one a while ago… There are two ways Doctor Who appears to be in danger of disappearing up its own fundament in this story. One […]
Last night I went to Andy Lewis’s talk on “What Every Parent Should Know About Steiner Schools”. I’d blogged my current thoughts about Steiner education the day before, just out […]
I like a good western. And Toby Whithouse’s A Town Called Mercy is really rather brilliant. Genre episodes of Doctor Who work particularly well because, for a show that has to invent a […]
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 […]
A month ago I went along to a public workshop on naturalism, on the set of the Cherry Orchard at the National, The chair of the seated panel, Matt Wolf, […]
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 […]
Apparently no one gets excited about AV (Alternative Vote) except me. Even the yes campaigners interviewed on the radio are at pains to say how they know it’s nobody’s favorite […]
викWhy is reflexology more popular than iridology? In the absence of an evidence-base, what makes one treatment more successful (in terms of uptake) than another? Put another way, if I […]
The story so far… Noticing that each series of the post-revival Doctor Who tends to follow a similar formula, and include equivalent types of episode (eg. the celebrity historical, the […]
I think there’s quite a good little story about Roman Autons inside this overblown introduction to the season fnarg finale, but unfortunately it’s been smothered by a menagerie of meanies […]