DaviesDavis Tennant and Billie Piper must have needed a couple weeks off from filming. The result, the worst Doctor Who episode ever made, including all of the Sylvester McCoy years.At least it had ELO music in it.
Let’s face it, last week on the Impossible Planet the Doctor was left in a pretty precarious position…
It’s no secret that, a few years ago, I bought a Mac and have subsequently dumped all my Windows PCs ad for everything I do at home – for myself, this just has never been a problem. But there is one area where it has been a problem – work.
I’m beginning to feel like I’m heaping superlative on top of superlative for the season’s reviews of Doctor Who, but I simply can’t help saying that the Impossible Planet is possibly the best looking Doctor Who episode ever made.
The Idiot’s Lantern by Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss, who turned in one of the best episodes last season has delivered again. It’s 1953 London, on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation, and an alien lifeform existing inside television plans to feed on the 20 million people anticipated to watch the coronation. The term “Idiot’s … Read more
Last season, my primary complaint about the new Doctor Who was that, episode after episode, the Doctor never saved the day. Today’s episode, the conclusion to last week’s “Rise of the Cybermen”, reverts to last season’s habit and I didn’t mind one bit.
Crazy Jim’s has been just around the corner from my house for years, and I must admit, I don’t go there very often. Not because I don’t enjoy it, but just because it’s small, crowded and a little on the expensive side. The picture here was taken in August when we made our first “review” … Read more
I’ve always assumed it was a pretentious, fru-fru place, and it turns out I was right!One thing about pretentious restaurants, no matter how good something sounds, they always manage to find something to ruin it, some incongruous ingredient that indelibly stamps the chef’s unique perspective on the whole affair.I settled on the Stuffed Pork Tenderloin Medallions which is described as pork tenderloin medallions stuffed with chorizo sausage, cheese, onion and poblanos in a roasted garlic cream sauce…. Nonetheless, the pork was good, the stuffing inside was very good, the sauce complimented it nicely.Good thing there was an ice cream shop nearby so I could fill up after dinner.
The Doctor’s old foes the Cybermen are back.
So what happens when you take one of Britain’s finest writers of romantic farce and let him loose of Doctor Who?Well if it’s like last year, you get the stand out episode(s) of the season, with the two-parter, “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances”.