After a period of several months since I saw “The Girl in the Fireplace”, it’s finally on to the next adventure for David Tennant’s tenth Doctor, “The Rise of the Cybermen”. And if I thought “Fireplace” was fairly good despite its problems, the same cannot be said for “Rise”, which has to set the record [...]
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Disappointing, for many reasons. David Tennant deserved better. But the episode has some very good moments that almost redeem it. It is very much an average season-ender for the Russell T. Davies era with a lot of plot elements that are becoming well-worn by this point. The opening scenes drag the viewer back to the [...]
You always know that an episode is going to be disappointing when a sonorous narrator intones something meant to be deep and dark and foreboding, but which is so poorly written that it just makes me want to laugh instead. “In the last days of planet Earth, people had bad dreams”. Bad dreams? Is that [...]
“Water always wins.” I have mixed feelings about “The Waters of Mars”, the latest off-year special with David Tennant’s tenth Doctor. On the one hand, it’s a good old fashioned “monsters against a small group of humans” Doctor Who plot that’s well excecuted and fast-paced.
Frustrating. That word sums up my reaction to “Journey’s End”, the final episode of Doctor Who’s fourth series. I really want to like this episode, but it has several major flaws that I simply cannot overlook. Once again, as often seems to be the case with RTD ‘epics’, what we have here is a great [...]
It’s a clip show! Sort of. Okay, not really. “Turn Left” takes the well-worn idea of an alternate timeline created by a time traveller changing the past and does something quite interesting with it. The story follows Donna as she visits a fortune-teller in on an alien planet,
“Midnight” is the bottle show of season four. It’s limited in scope but still fairly dramatic, using the small cast and single setting to good effect. It reminds me in some ways of the play “Twelve Angry Men” where the drama consists of a jury in a room debating the details of a murder case. [...]
The first multi-Doctor story of the new series is short and sweet, and a lot of fun. Set in the final minutes of “The Last of the Time Lords” between Martha’s departure and the Titanic crashing through the wall of the TARDIS, it sees Peter Davison return as the fifth Doctor opposite incumbent David Tennant. [...]
I’m of two minds when it comes to this episode. On the one hand, it’s a pretty strong action runaround with some great visuals and an inventive enemy. On the other hand, the security system that prevents access to the secondary control room is stupid beyond words, as is the escape pod control box on [...]
I’m not quite sure where to begin with this one. It is very much a mixed bag, and I honestly can’t quite decide whether there’s more good or more bad, but I’m leaning towards the latter. “The Runaway Bride” is full of ideas, but not all of them work. And the villain of the piece [...]
