Empress of Mars: God Save the Queen, Buried on Mars
NASA finds a message carved under the Martian ice, and Doctor Who delivers a proper old-fashioned romp about the British Empire meeting something older.
NASA finds a message carved under the Martian ice, and Doctor Who delivers a proper old-fashioned romp about the British Empire meeting something older.
Six months into the occupation the Monks have rewritten every human memory, and the Doctor appears to be working for them. The trilogy’s weakest instalment.
A pyramid appears overnight on a disputed border and the Monks offer to save the world, on one condition: somebody has to surrender to them willingly, out of love.
A Vatican text drives every reader to suicide, and the reason is the single best twist Doctor Who has pulled in years. Nothing you are watching is real.
A mining station where the spacesuits have killed their crew and are walking the corpses around, in the most savage and best-argued episode of the season.
Bill and five housemates take a suspiciously cheap house with a suspiciously helpful landlord, and Doctor Who does a straight haunted-house story rather well.
Doctor Who Series 10 kicks off with The Pilot, introducing Pearl Mackie’s Bill Potts alongside Capaldi’s Doctor in a thrilling, monster-filled season premiere.
Bill’s first trip into the past goes to the last great Frost Fair, where something enormous is chained under the Thames and being farmed for profit.
A colony built by robots programmed to keep humans happy, which decided that the first person to grieve was a fault in the system and removed everybody.
Doctor Who does a straight-faced superhero pastiche, introduces Nardole properly, and gives a grieving Doctor something harmless to do for an hour.
In a not unsurprising fashion, SHIELD is once again the tie-in to an upcoming big-screen Movie Adaptation (namely Doctor Strange). The second episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. gives us a…
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is leaning hard on Ghost Rider joining in Season 4 as a hook to get people watching the show, so it makes sense that Gabriel Luna’s…
The good Doctor himself, Doctor Who has been through innumerable casting changes. Since the sci-fi series has been on the air since 1963, we’ve seen a revolving door of actors…
I managed to get to the Christmas Special awhile back, but unfortunately I simply didn’t have the time available to give you my thoughts. Was it perfect? No, no it…
Hell Bent finally takes the Doctor home to Gallifrey, then spends most of its time undoing Clara’s death, which I never quite forgave it for.
Season 9 of Doctor Who gave us some of Peter Capaldi’s absolute best moments as the Twelfth Doctor. Coming hot off the heels of the incredibly tense, claustrophobic brilliance of…
A somewhat different episode to the one that I was expecting, Heaven Sent worked – although it wasn’t without its flaws. One thing I’ve come to expect from Capaldi at…
Bang & Kaboom … a major shift in direction here and while it’s one we all saw coming, it’s still somewhat troubling in this excellent episode written by Sarah Dollard.…
Continuing on from the interesting / intriguing / excellent but dumb Zygon episodes (Zygon Invasion falls into the dumb camp and Inversion into the excellent one with one of the…
The second part of the Zygon storyline was definitely better than the first. Perhaps most importantly it had one of THE most epic monologues by Peter Capaldi! Like so…
It’s probably easy to explain our slight ambivalence to Episode 7: The Zygon Invasion with the knowledge that the Zygons are our least favourite of the Doctor’s intergalactic enemies. Not…