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Category Archives: Twelfth Doctor
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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Tagged Class
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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
Posted in Cliffhangers, Doctor Who, Eleventh Doctor, Entertainment, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Clara, Peter Capaldi
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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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Ashildr, Clara, Face the Raven, Peter Capaldi
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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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, History, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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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Tagged Ashildr, Clara, Peter Capaldi, The Girl Who Died
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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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
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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Tagged Clara, Danny, Peter Capaldi, The Caretaker
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Time Heist
I love it when Doctor Who does something different, particularly when it crashes into another genre. Here, after a timey-wimey jump cut, the Doctor is forced to be the leader of a criminal gang robbing a bank, and he is … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Clara, Peter Capaldi, Time Heist
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Dark Water
This article covers the episodes Dark Water and Death in Heaven, which together form a single Doctor Who story. Once upon a time an old lady complained about Doctor Who to the BBC because she didn’t understand what a freeze … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Brigadier, Clara, Danny, Dark Water, Death in Heaven, Osgood, Peter Capaldi
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Twice Upon a Time
“A long time ago, at the South Pole, the Doctor refused to regenerate…” Sounds like the opening line of a children’s story, doesn’t it. And that title: a reference to the opening words of so many fairy tales. As somebody … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Doctor Who, First Doctor, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Ben, Bill, David Bradley, Peter Capaldi, Polly, Twice Upon a Time, William Hartnell
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The Return of Doctor Mysterio
I have to be up front about this. I’m not a big fan of the superhero genre. It has always struck me as being something that tries to keep one foot in sci-fi and one foot in fantasy and ends … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Christmas, Nardole, Peter Capaldi, The Return of Doctor Mysterio
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The Husbands of River Song
Christmas Day is an opportunity for Doctor Who. It always pulls in a significantly greater amount of viewers than a standard episode, usually good for an extra couple of million and sometimes as much as five or six million more … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television, Twelfth Doctor
Tagged Nardole, Peter Capaldi, River Song, The Husbands of River Song
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