DOCTOR WHO – LISTEN (S8E04)
In Doctor Who Listen, The Doctor hypothesizes that no-one in the universe is ever alone. He travels to Clara’s flat to share his theory, and finds her home from a…
In Doctor Who Listen, The Doctor hypothesizes that no-one in the universe is ever alone. He travels to Clara’s flat to share his theory, and finds her home from a…
Telling Clara to ‘take a punt’, The Doctor lands the TARDIS in a forest in medieval Nottingham where she hopes she can meet Robin Hood, despite The Doctor telling her…
While getting coffee for Clara, The Doctor uses the TARDIS to rescue Journey Blue, a soldier fighting the Daleks, from her exploding spaceship. Returning her to command ship Aristotle, he…
I’m a bit behind the 8ball with regards to my Doctor Who reviews (and blog updates in general to be honest) so many apologies for that, but unfortunately – life…
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 crams in three villains and one devastating ending. Garfield and Stone are great. The film around them is doing too much.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier turns Marvel into a seventies conspiracy thriller, and I think it’s one of the better MCU films so far.
The Time of the Doctor strands Matt Smith’s Doctor on Trenzalore for nine hundred years, and a messy first half gives way to a great goodbye.
The Day of the Doctor takes the Time War apart with a tired John Hurt, a weapon wearing Rose’s face and three men stuck on one big red button.
The Name of the Doctor answers the Impossible Girl question properly, goes to Trenzalore and ends on a John Hurt shot I can’t stop thinking about.
Nightmare in Silver gives me the best Cybermen in years and Matt Smith playing chess against himself, then buries both in a theme park.
The Crimson Horror drops the Paternoster Gang into a Victorian model village run by Diana Rigg at full tilt. I give it 4/5.
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS takes us inside the ship at last, then throws it all away with a reset button. A 2.5/5 from me.
Hide sends the Doctor and Clara into a haunted house in 1974, and the ghost story turns into something kinder than I expected. I give it 4/5.
Cold War thaws an Ice Warrior aboard a Soviet submarine in 1983 and leaves the Doctor with no TARDIS. Tense, tight and old-fashioned.
The Rings of Akhaten sends Clara to an alien market and a girl singing a god to sleep, then ends on a leaf. Thin plot, big heart.
The Bells of Saint John harvests people through the Wi-Fi as the Doctor meets Clara a third time. Fast and fun, but far too easily solved.
The Snowmen drops a sulking, retired Doctor into Victorian London and hands him a barmaid he can’t quite stop thinking about.
The Angels Take Manhattan sends Amy and Rory off with a chosen ending, a book from the future and the nastiest Weeping Angels idea yet.
The Power of Three drops a billion black cubes on Earth that do nothing for a year, wonderful about ordinary life and hopeless about its monster.