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The quintessential “mortgage lifter” for many a financially flagging PBS station, the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who was not always a big favorite in America. The series detailed the wide-ranging adventures of Doctor Who, a 750-year-old denizen of the planet Gallifrey, who came to earth in human form by way of a London [...]
Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 12 ‘The Pandorica Opens’ Recap
This episode accomplished something pretty major for Matt Smith’s incarnation of the Doctor. I won’t go into what until after the jump for fear that the Spoiler Police will clap me in irons, but the image along with this article is a pretty big clue.This episode highlighted one of Moffat’s greatest strengths as a writer: [...]
‘Doctor Who’ Season 5 Episode 11 ‘The Lodger’ Recap
After the disappointing ‘Vincent and the Doctor’ two weeks ago, it was nice to see the show return to greatness (or at least goodness) with an episode written by Gareth Roberts, who has written ‘Doctor Who’ for several mediums including television, audio, novels and comics. This episode is an adaptation of one of his comics [...]
‘Doctor Who’ Season 5 Episode 9 ‘Cold Blood’ Recap
Last week’s first-parter episode was a set-up for this week’s, which in turn ended up being a bit of a paint-by-numbers adventure for the Doctor and his friends. In fact, plot-wise the episode was reminiscent of the first time the Doctor encountered the Silurians back when he was Jon Pertwee. Fortunately, the ending had a [...]
Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 6 ‘Vampires of Venice’ Recap
The title of this episode was doubly-ironic. Minor spoiler: the Vampires in the episode weren’t actually Vampires and Venice wasn’t actually Venice. The episode was actually filmed in Croatia for cost reasons as well as the fact that the real Venice nowadays looks very different than the historical Venice of the episode.Given the big Vampire [...]
Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 5 ‘Flesh and Stone’ Recap
If possible, the Weeping Angels are even scarier in the conclusion of this two-parter than in the beginning. The episode was fundamentally a forty-two minute chase scene, but that helped provide a backdrop for deeper issues involving the plotline of the season.Still, it would be nice if they could do something more malevolent to a [...]
Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 3 ‘Victory of the Daleks’ Recap
They say a Doctor isn’t a Doctor until he’s faced down his most famous enemy, the Daleks. Every Doctor has faced them (it’s even implied that Paul McGann fought them in the Time War). It’s best that newbie Matt Smith got it out of the way early otherwise children would be asking “when will he [...]
‘Doctor Who’ Season 5 Episode 2 ‘The Beast Below’ Recap
As a long-time ‘Doctor Who‘ fan, let me begin by saying that while this week’s episode wasn’t quite as good as last week’s, it was still pretty darn good. Matt Smith is very quickly adjusting to his role as the Doctor and Amy Pond is proving herself to be a good match for him and [...]
‘Doctor Who’ Season 5 Episode 1 ‘The Eleventh Hour’ Recap (Season Premiere)
Eleventh Hour. Eleventh Doctor. Ha ha. We get it.Matt Smith comes out of the gate running. Literally. In his new regeneration, the Doctor doesn’t even get time to catch his breath since he’s dealing with his new companion Amy Pond as well as yet another alien that wants to destroy the Earth.This was one [...]