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Friday, 30 July 2010

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter

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“Hello, Dad!” Wow. I was expecting this to be average-to-good going by my memories, which are fairly recent, after all. Stephen Greenhor...
Monday, 26 July 2010

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky

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The Sontaran Stratagem “Is that what you did to her? Turned her into a soldier?” I like the pre-credit sequence a lot; there’s someth...
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood

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“The circle must be broken.” Bit hard to know what to say about this one, really. It’s sort of… average. Not that it doesn’t have lots o...
Monday, 19 July 2010

Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii

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“You must excuse my friend. She’s from Barcelona.” It’s ancient Rome again. Gosh, how nostalgic. Particularly as we get an oblique refer...
Saturday, 10 July 2010

Doctor Who: Partners in Crime

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“You’re not mating with me, sunshine!” Ooh, new theme music! And no pre-titles sequence; it seems we’re relaunching the show again, and ...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Torchwood: Exit Wounds

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“I’m gonna rage my way to oblivion! Why? Give me one good bloody reason why I shouldn’t. One good reason why I shouldn’t keep screaming....
Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Torchwood: Fragments

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“The 21st century, Jack. Everything’s going to change. And we’re not ready.” It’s the penultimate episode, the calm before the storm; ...
Monday, 5 July 2010

Torchwood: Adrift

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“Do you know what’s happened to you, Gwen? You’ve become hard.” Back to traditional Torchwood values now; a Gwen episode, and the ret...
Thursday, 1 July 2010

Torchwood: From Out of the Rain

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“Make her cry. I want to drink her tears.” Objectively this should be a great episode; effective and fascinating concept, real atmosph...
Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Torchwood: Something Borrowed

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“By day you’re chasing the scum of the universe. Come midnight, you’re the wedding fairy…” Of all the weeks to watch this one…! It o...
Monday, 28 June 2010

Torchwood: A Day in the Death

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“I am literally too cool for school.” I’ve never come across any of Joseph Lidster’s Big Finish work so this is the first work of his ...
Friday, 18 June 2010

Torchwood: Dead Man Walking

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“I’ve been looking for the phrase ‘I shall walk the Earth and my hunger shall know no bounds’ but I keep getting redirected to Weight Wa...
Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Torchwood: Reset

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“What’s his… dabbling like?” “Innovative. Bordering on the avant-garde.” The first scene is from the point of view of a mystery perso...
Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Torchwood: Adam

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“I’m going to marry this bloody mad woman even if it kills me!” The opening titles start, and there’s a new character in them- yep, this...
Thursday, 3 June 2010

Torchwood: Meat

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“If we could find out how it worked, we could feed the world!” “We could release a single…” We start with Rhys at work; at last he get...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Torchwood: To The Last Man

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“It’s still warm, at least. Not been gone long.” The pre-titles sequence introduces us to Tommy and sets up the time paradox forming t...
Monday, 24 May 2010

Torchwood: Sleeper

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“Let’s all have sex.” “And I thought the end of the world couldn’t get any worse…” The “21st century is when everything changes” spiel...

Torchwood: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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“This is the entrance for tourists.” “I remember the last time you said that…” Well, serves me right, that does. There I go pretty muc...
Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Doctor Who: Time Crash / Voyage of the Damned

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Time Crash “You mostly went hands-free, didn't you? ‘I'm the Doctor! I can save the universe with a kettle and some string. And ...
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Monday, 17 May 2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Lost Boy

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Part One “Children have no place in my life.” Ah. It appears this write-up may also be a little longer than I’d intended my SJA write-up...
Sunday, 16 May 2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

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Part One “Somebody just walked over my grave…” Oh dear. Looking at my notes for this one it’s going to be the sort of full-length writ...
Thursday, 13 May 2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Warriors of Kudlak

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Part One “I’m not a conspiracy theorist!” Hmm. There’s no denying this is a great concept for a story, in theory; a Laserquest type esta...
Sunday, 9 May 2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Eye of the Gorgon

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Part One “It’s so sad. Everything she must have seen… and now everyone thinks she’s just crazy.” This is Phil Ford’s first script for any...
Sunday, 2 May 2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures: Revenge of the Slitheen

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Part One “Clyde, new too. Probably hang around with you until I meet cooler people.” I’m going to try and keep these SJA reviews a bit s...
Saturday, 1 May 2010

Doctor Who: Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords

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Utopia “It’s like I’ve got a sports car, you’ve got a space hopper.” I watched this episode on Tuesday and ended up filling up two pa...