The Rethinking Of The Sandman
If film producer Jon Peters had had his way, the rethinking of The Sandman would have been drastically horrible. Luckily, the clever writer of said classic […]
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Doctor Who: “Hell Bent”
Even though “Hell Bent” is as unrepentantly sci-fi and literal as “Heaven Sent” is allegorical and rich with subtext, even though it’s as chaotic and […]
Doctor Who: “Face the Raven”
One way to gauge the sturdiness of a work of fiction might be: if you know the big spoiler, can you still enjoy it? The […]
Maisie Williams Returns To ‘Doctor Who’ This Week
After warning us to “sleep no more,” Doctor Who follows up by admonishing us to “Face the Raven.” While I appreciate the literary allusions, they need […]
Doctor Who: “Sleep No More”
Imagine, if you can, a monster that uses your time asleep to attack you…yes, a bit like Freddy Krueger. Imagine that this monster is so […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Inversion”
Imagine you’ve been forced to move to another country, one where you don’t speak the language and the customs aren’t your own. You probably still […]
Doctor Who: “The Zygon Invasion”
And just like that we’re back in a classic mode, in this case the Earth invasion stories that introduced UNIT in 1970 and continued through […]
Doctor Who, “The Woman Who Lived”
For a moment in this season’s opening two-parter I got the ghastly fear that by the end of this year we’d have a definitive, boring […]
Doctor Who: “The Girl Who Died”
Series 9 continues our tour of the classic series in general and the Tom Baker era in specific with a season 16/17 smorgasbord. Those two […]
Doctor Who: “Before the Flood”
It’s all about paradoxes this season so far. In the opening two-parter, we got the Grandfather Paradox: if you go back in time and kill […]
Doctor Who: Under the Lake
If you hear a classic series fan talking about the “base under siege” story, they’re talking about a story like “Under the Lake”. It’s a […]
Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar
I said last week that there was only one time travel story to be told about Hitler: do you go back and kill him before […]
Doctor Who: The Magician’s Apprentice
Reviewed by Drew Simchik That Moffat! Who else would be so clever as to start off a new season with an RTD finale? The first […]
Comic-Con 2015: ‘Doctor Who’ Cast Voicing ‘LEGO Dimensions’
All of time and space… whenever, wherever… it’s your choice. Basically, you just have to build it out of little bricks. Doctor Who fans just […]
Doctor Who Returns To Comic-Con In 2015
…and I know a few people who are all ready to line up. Peter Capaldi will be making his first Comic-Con appearance on Thursday, July […]
