“Listen” Review
It’s a rare pleasure when you really have no idea where an episode will take you next. In a restaurant for an excruciating first date? Under the bed in a […]
It’s a rare pleasure when you really have no idea where an episode will take you next. In a restaurant for an excruciating first date? Under the bed in a […]
I suppose I should have realised that there was a danger that having two iconic heroes in one story would result in a pissing contest. I had hoped that among […]
Despite an elevator-pitch style premise, and a plot that borrows elements from many previous episodes, I’d rate this as the best dalek story ((which I think is probably best defined […]
Well, it’s better than The Twin Dilemma, but it’s not as straight-forwardly enjoyable as The Christmas Invasion. In fact, I think it’s going to take quite a few viewings to […]
“It’s not a chair, it’s the most dangerous weapon in the Universe.” “Why can’t it be both?” In Day of the Doctor Steven Moffat has chosen to do two things: celebrate […]
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 […]
The debate had broken out again before the news of Matt Smith’s departure had hit the first editions. Will the next Doctor be a woman? Why does this ‘debate’ continue? […]
I’ve tried to avoid any of the names that are already doing the rounds (not that I’ve any objection to Ben Wishaw, Idris Elba, Ben Daniels et. al.) because there […]
Another Neil Gaimen episode was something to look forward to. The bad memory of the last time the cybermen appeared in the penultimate episode of a series was just a […]
By rights, putting that much slapstick in an episode of Doctor Who should have irritated the socks off me. Yet, even now, I’m chuckling at the puerile Thomas Thomas gag. How did The Crimson Horror get […]
This was an episode I was expecting would disappoint. An episode entirely set inside the TARDIS? Either it would be monotonous corridor wandering, as in Logopolis, or it would be […]
Set in 1974, there’s more than a small nod to Jon Pertwee in this one, that I feel goes beyond merely mispronouncing Metebilis (there’s no way uber-nerd Tennant would have […]