Doctor Who returned this week and is finally under way with the normalcy of its 9th Season. Now when I say “normalcy”, I don’t mean that in a bad way. As you can imagine, Season premiers – like Season finales – are usually entities all to themselves in terms of complexity and action. In many…
The Doctor, Clara and Missy are back and if you thought last week’s Season Premier was an emotional roller coaster – you haven’t seen anything yet! How can the Doctor survive Davros and the Daleks? What does the episode title mean? What’s in store for the rest of the season? This and more will be…
After what’s seemed like an eternity, Doctor Who has finally returned to BBC – although something was different! The Season 9 premier was a strange amalgam of Who History and never before seen scenarios/choices. Rather than set things up slowly, this premier hit you hard right from the start and kept hitting till the very…
So ends one of the most polarizing seasons of Doctor Who yet. This episode perfectly combined everything of this season, while also bringing in many aspects of the series past. If there was something you hated about this Season, it was included in this finale; but so too were all the amazing parts. There’s a…
This Season of Doctor Who has overall been glorious. Between Peter Capaldi’s new Doctor and the darker tone throughout this season, it finally feels like fantastical show is grounded once again. True that last week’s episode – “In The Forest of the Night” was less than stellar, but from the looks of things that was just…
Named after the William Blake poem The Tyger – yes there was a tiger in this episode – “In the Forest of the Night” is the 10th episode of Season 8 Doctor Who; as well as the last episode before the two-part finale. That’s right, the finale is already upon us. So what did this…
If you’ve ever read Flatland by Edwin A Abbott, then you were well prepared for all the spatially abstract WTF-ness that this week’s episode of Doctor Who entitled “Flatline” brought to the table. “Flatline” had all the makings of a suspenseful/scary episode like “Blink” and “Listen”; but sadly missed the “relatability”. Though despite all this…
Call it a great pun or an easy joke; but just don’t call “Mummy on the Orient Express” a boring episode. With only 66 seconds to save a life, this episode gave us a great sense of urgency as well as an all-telling honest reveal by the doctor himself. Throw in some new sinister characters,…
This weeks Doctor Who was as surprising as it was brilliantly hard hitting. Not only did we have a companion tell the Doctor off for the first time; but also had an episode where the women held all the power. The uneasiness of last episode is gone and this season of Doctor Who is back…
The Doctor is back, or should I say John Smith – the Doctor’s usual human alias. In an episode that featured so many quick references to past Doctor Who story elements – John Smith, River Song, Coal Hill School -, none were given more than just a passing mention. Instead, the bulk of this episode…
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