…but,, here’s someone else’s review that hits on about 1/3 to 1/2 of the things that really irritated me about this dismal failure of a regeneration story. From Behind the Sofa – Return of the Fan****king Yeah, I welled up. Incredibly, I was still crying when I noticed that the glass doors weren’t even sealed. … Read more
Apparently Russell T. Davies had one last, constipated bowel moment to crap upon us before he departed.
A lot has been said about “Trial of a Time Lord”, some of it by me, but that’s neither here nor there. This Colin Baker series comes from another era. It was era of disappointment in many ways – of enormous potential squandered. A time when optimism was slowly eroded away to despair. I remember … Read more
I think I’ve finally figured out why I never seem to get around to reviewing the Doctor Who Christmas episodes – it’s because, Christmas is over and by this point it all seems hokey to dredge up stuff about Christmas. It’s like watching A Charlie Brown Christmas in July.
Therefore, I will make this short:
The BBC has posted some fascinating – if a bit difficult to navigate – documents concerning the creation of Doctor Who. BBC Archive – The Genesis of Doctor Who – The Creation of a Television Hero Particularly fascinating are the two reports by the BBC on the feasibility of Science Fiction on the BBC, written … Read more
For those of us what don’t get to see Children in Need.
I haven’t posted anything Doctor Whoish lately, except the depressing news that David Tennant has knavishly abandoned his efforts to be the longest running Doctor yet.
However, If I don’t go searching, not much Doctor Who news comes my way, today I ran across this article, (at ComicMix News) which purports to be “what we know” about the upcoming specials – although, from the comments, I see a healthy dose of skepticism, which I’m more than pleased to to echo.
I’m skeptical, but it’s fun to speculate.
Read on if you want to hear things that sound like rumors, but might actually be spoilers…
Damn! David Tennant has announced that he will leave the award winning BBC drama Doctor Who when he has completed the filming of four special episodes which will be screened in 2009 and early in 2010. [From BBC – Doctor Who – News]
My Apple TV did something very strange today – something that I can’t recall that it has ever done before. I think it crashed. One minute it was showing my flickr screensaver and the next moment I noticed it was asking me what language I wanted my Apple TV to operate in. I choose English … Read more
And this couldn’t be any more richly deserved… Future Doctor Who Executive Producer Steven Moffat has scooped his third Hugo Award in a row. Blink, written by Steven and directed by Hettie Macdonald, beat off strong competition from Paul Cornell’s two-parter Human Nature/The Family of Blood and Catherine Treganna’s Torchwood episode Captain Jack Harkness to … Read more