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…
Have you ever wondered what it’d be like if the Doctor was in Ocean’s Eleven? Well that is exactly the kind of situation the Doctor and Clara found themselves in when they awakened with their memories wiped and instructions to rob the most secure bank in the galaxy. Though what started as a bank robbery…
This week’s episode of Doctor Who, “Listen” gave us the most suspenseful and frightening Doctor Who experience since the classic Moffat episode “Blink”. Though unlike the original “Blink” – whose villains, the Weeping Angels, rapidly became overpowered and unbelievable – “Listen” proved to be much more than just a copycat. I’ll admit that there were…
Continuing the theme of this season, last night’s episode of Doctor Who gave us another look into who Capaldi’s Doctor is and what he thinks of himself by juxtaposing him with one of the most famous heroes of legend: Robin Hood. Considering one of my all time favorite movies is Mel Brook’s Robin Hood: Men…
The second episode of the new Season of Doctor Who ventured into familiar territory with the Daleks returning as the episode’s villains. So how do you make one of the oldest Dr Who villains still relevant? By now the Daleks basically equal defeat. We know how the stories go: exterminate, a chance to stop it,…
“Life returns. Life prevails.” At least that’s what the Daleks have to say about the trailer for the eighth season of Doctor Who. The last time we saw the Doctor, he had survived the Seige of Trenzalore with a little help from the trapped Time Lords he had been fighting to protect from the Daleks,…
2014 seems like the year of time travel. Between Once Upon A Time and X-Men: Days Of Future Past traveling to the past and the plethora of blast from the past summer blockbusters (Godzilla, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc), there’s definitely a theme of bringing the past to the present. Though what about the future…
Sherlock is about to face his toughest battle yet. No not a terrorist attack. Not even a new Moriarty-like villain. Instead he is facing the trails and tribulations of being John’s best man. Composed mostly of flashbacks, this episode can seem a little confusing – what Sherlock episode isn’t – but we’re going to break…
Exactly two long years after its Second Season, Sherlock returns to the BBC with Sherlock Holmes himself returning to London two years after his apparent death in “The Reichenbach Fall”. What has Sherlock been up to all these years? What’s changed in London since then and what’s coming? Most importantly, how did he fake his…
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