Category: Reviews
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Review: The Beast Below
It’s not terrible It’s not that I thought it was terrible – and that’s a heck of an opening, isn’t it? – but rather that I think my expectations were just too high after the great season opener. To briefly recap: the Doctor and Amy discover to their horror that…
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Review: The Eleventh Hour
Regenerating the Doctor & the show There is something magical about a new Doctor. Undoubtedly because the regeneration trick created so long ago to allow William Hartnell to leave also enables the show itself to regenerate along with its main character and here, it’s all change; Stephen Moffat takes over…
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Review: The Impossible Astronaut
A beginning with a lot of questions To say that I was looking forward to the return of Doctor Who doesn’t really encapsulate the sheer bubbling effervescent glee that escalated within me during the long, long wait for the new season. Obviously this is a bad thing because how can anything live…
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Review: Day of the Moon
A second part without all the answers Nothing can live up to too much anticipation – or can it? The first episode of the new season had just about defied logic in living up to the hype but it was helped by the fact that it was the first part…
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Review: The Curse of the Black Spot
The curse of the 3rd episode Well, here we are again at episode three of a new Doctor Who season and here we are again with something that’s less than stellar. “The Curse of the Black Spot” is supposed to be a pirate romp combining both time and space but ultimately the…
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Review: The Doctor’s Wife
A TARDIS and her Doctor “The Doctor’s Wife” is an episode of two identities and two halves; the first is quirky and playing too hard for the laughs but the second is…stunningly tense, dramatic and emotional. The plot is quite ingenious; the Doctor is lured to a junkyard outside of…
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Review: The Rebel Flesh
A gooey mess When a solar storm sends the TARDIS to an Earth a short distance into the future, the Doctor ends up negotiating between a group of humans at an acid factory and (thanks to some solar radiation) their suddenly independent thinking and sentient clones. “The Rebel Flesh” is…
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Review: The Almost People
Almost bad until it is astoundingly good As a follow-up to “The Rebel Flesh” (32.05), this episode, which inevitably resolves the conflict between the clones and humans through judicious loss on both sides, is OK. As a prequel for the mid-season two-part story that is coming, it’s astoundingly good, shockingly…
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Review: A Good Man Goes to War
The mystery of River Song revealed So this is it: the episode where the mysterious identity of River Song is revealed so if you don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading! Indeed, the reveal of River Song’s identity is the climax of “A Good Man Goes to War,” with the…
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Review: Stargate – Continuum
A final adventure for the SG1 team Continuum was hailed as an old fashioned Stargate story; a trip back in time to the core concepts that characterised the early seasons. The movie delivers on that promise, focusing on the Goa’uld, time travel, past characters and SG1 saving time. Yet the…
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