Mark Goodacre and Loren Rosson have been keeping up their respective Who reviews (revWhos?). In a post today Loren reveals his dislike for the character driven stories of new Who, over against the plot driven stories of classic Who. I think he’s wrong generally, because plots where you care about the characters are more exciting [...]
Thank goodness Doctor Who is not an evangelical!
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In the excellent two-parter Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead the Doctor hits the solution to a puzzle by reflecting on the English language. Donna Noble and 4022 people before her “have been saved”. But who, wonders the Doctor, talks [...]
Possibly the best Doctor Who story of them all. It will depend on next week’s part two, and it’s rather hard to see how they can match this with an ending that will do justice to the menace and mystery.
I’d forgotten about this until some idle browsing reminded me. A few years back, this advert got banned from UK TV.
It was held to be offensive to the feelings of pregnant women and the bereaved. What’s interesting is that no-one seems to have objected to the message that we should “play more”. Instead they objected to the [...]
One of the rather neat touches (and an insider joke, I think) in today’s episode of Doctor who is the names of the Roman family at the heart of the Doctor’s visit. Caecilius was not only a real figure in Pompeii, but is with his wife Metella and son Quintus at the heart of one [...]
