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Category Archives: Twelfth Doctor
Top of the Docs: Series 12 (2020)
Jodie’s first season was not exactly what I’d call a resounding success. In fact, for the first time in my life, having watched the show for nearly 4 decades, I wasn’t particularly excited to see it return. Could it bring … Continue reading
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Top of the Docs: Series 11 (2018)
Capaldi’s last season ended on such a high note, I couldn’t have been happier. There was some trepidation about how the new showrunner, Chris Chibnall, was going to work out but, like a certain ant, I had high hopes. Was … Continue reading
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Top of the Docs: Series 10 (2017)
Peter Capaldi’s final season saw both characterization and story come together to give us one of my favorite seasons of Doctor Who since the classic era, rising Capaldi to one of my all time favorite Doctors. It’s not perfect, but … Continue reading
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Top of the Docs: Series 9 (2015)
Peter Capaldi’s first season left something to be desired but for me, it was in the characterization that was truly off. The stories were, by and large, good, but written for a non-Doctor. For some strange reason, as if to … Continue reading
Top of the Docs: Series 8 (2014)
I was in Ireland when the announcement came that The Thick of It star, Peter Capaldi, would be playing the 12th Doctor. I had just seen him as a WHO doctor in Brad Pitt’s World War Z only to find … Continue reading
Class: For Tonight We Might Die
If you ask me, the Brits are superb storytellers. They have an idea, and they tell it, length be damned. If that means 8 episodes will tell the story, that’s what they will do. No need to drag an 8-episode … Continue reading
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The Target Storybook
When I was a kid, nothing was more exciting than getting a new Doctor Who book from the TARGET book range. I utterly adored them. Then, one day, I finished the collection and there were none left to collect. When … Continue reading
Cliffhangers: Moffat Era
DOCTOR: Oh, big mistake. Huge. Didn’t anyone every tell you there’s one thing you never put in a trap? If you’re smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing … Continue reading
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Tagged Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat
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Hell Bent
The Doctor is back on Gallifrey, but once again Doctor Who refuses to do what every other sci-fi series would do. Faced with this big moment, the episode is a stubborn rejection of the epic season finale battle with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashildr, Clara, Peter Capaldi
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Heaven Sent
The Doctor has always been something of a Prometheus figure, stealing (the TARDIS) from the gods (Time Lords), and giving help to humanity against their wishes (non-interference). It has taken over 50 years, but finally we follow through with the … Continue reading
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Face the Raven
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor Eagerly I wished the morrow, vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for … Continue reading
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Sleep No More
I thought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth is murdering sleep.” Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. … Continue reading
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Tagged Clara, Paranormal Activity, Peter Capaldi, Sleep No More
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Under the Lake
This articles covers the episodes Under the Lake and Before the Flood, which together form a single Doctor Who story. Writer Toby Whithouse looks to the past for this story, in more ways than one. He takes the base-under-siege format … Continue reading
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Tagged Before the Flood, Clara, Peter Capaldi, Under the Lake
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The Magician’s Apprentice
This article covers the episodes The Magician’s Apprentice and The Witch’s Familiar, which together form a single Doctor Who story. DOCTOR: Just touch these two strands together and the Daleks are finished. Have I that right? That was 40 years … Continue reading
The Woman Who Lived
This is very loosely the second part of a two-parter, exploring the character of Ashildr. There always has to be some Doctor Who jeopardy in every episode, and it is thrown in and underdeveloped, with no real motivation for Leandro’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashildr, Clara, Peter Capaldi
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The Girl Who Died
Doctor Who is often about figuring out how the Doctor will get out of a situation, rather than whether he will get out of it or not. That was the point of most of the cliffhanger endings. This episode plays … Continue reading
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In the Forest of the Night
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? For a long time now I have had a pet theory that Doctor Who isn’t really a science-fiction show. Yes, … Continue reading
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Flatline
When 14 episodes of Doctor Who per year were going to be too much for any lead actor to cope with, the Doctor-lite episode was invented, one that would include the Doctor but only to a limited degree, often allowing … Continue reading
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Tagged Clara, Danny, Flatline, Peter Capaldi
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Kill the Moon
If you are going to make a Doctor Who story about three female characters deciding whether to abort an unborn baby or not, good grief you need to be careful. The sensible thing to do would have been to drop … Continue reading
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Tagged Clara, Danny, Kill the Moon, Peter Capaldi
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The Caretaker
Once upon a time the headmaster of Coal Hill School made the assumption that the Doctor was there to apply for the job of caretaker (Remembrance of the Daleks). The Doctor has actually worked as a caretaker before, in The … Continue reading
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