Tag Archives: Paternoster Gang

A Good Man Goes to War

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Roger Pocock

This is something new: a mid-season finale.  It functions in a very different way to a season finale because instead of bringing all the plot strands together and resolving them, it instead resolves some while creating others, but leaving the … Continue reading →

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The Crimson Horror

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Roger Pocock

This might be the 100th episode of Doctor Who since it returned in 2005, but it feels more like a pilot episode for a Paternoster Gang spinoff, which bizarrely has never happened.  The Doctor doesn’t feature much in the first … Continue reading →

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The Snowmen

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Roger Pocock

The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe gave us our most straight-up take on Doctor Who as children’s fantasy fiction, but the approach endures here, as it has endured for the entirety of the Steven Moffat era of Doctor Who.  … Continue reading →

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Deep Breath

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Roger Pocock

So here we go again! I am going to have to tackle some big problems with this episode which will have far-reaching consequences for the next three years of Doctor Who, but first of all I really want to mention … Continue reading →

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