In general I try to keep this blog pretty non-partisan and pan-whovian. That is, rather, the point. But in honor of Moffat Appreciation Week, I want to take a look at Nancy, the hero and lead of "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances." A lot of sweeping generalizations are made about "Moffat's Women," and Nancy is the first woman he ever ( ( Read more... )

In the words of the (fourth) Doctor: "Never trust gimmicky gadgets!" The psychic paper used by the Doctor (and others) is a gimmicky gadget par excellence whose purpose is to answer the age-old question of "Who are you and how did you get into my house" - and should, of course, never ever be trusted ( Read more... )

This week in stand up guys who get hit by cars, we have Pete Tyler. Pete Tyler was a stand up guy. Then he got hit by a car. That is all you need to know about Pete Tyler. Well, and also that there's two of him ( Read more... )

Cathica Santini Kadanie is the head Journalist for floor 139 of Satellite 5, news hub of the purportedly Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. That is to say she's the one with the info-spike in her head, the conduit through whom all that information flows - in the Doctor's words "her brain is the computer ( Read more... )

The Ninth Doctor kicked off the latest incarnation of the show in 2005. He is fresh off of the Time War (whatever that was) and we do not see his regeneration.* His time as the Doctor is therefore as mysterious as it is brief ( Read more... )

NB: I am here addressing Jack as he appears in Doctor Who. I am aware of Torchwood, but (a) I haven't watched it, and therefore cannot speak intelligently about it, and (b) it's outside the scope of this project.

Captain Jack Harkness is a Time Agent. Or, rather, was a Time Agent. I've mentioned here and there that the power vacuum left by the ( Read more... )

Mickey Smith is in some ways the Harry Sullivan of the post-2005 series of Doctor Who. He's a regular guy, a nice guy, who spends his entire run on the show being verbally abused by the Doctor when he's not being ignored completely. And yet he gets through it without being horribly melted, and remains basically a nice guy in spite of all ( Read more... )

by special request for that same anon"Bad Wolf" are the Arc Words to Series 1/Season 27. They are in fact one of the first examples of Arc Words as a trope - a phrase or other set of words that is tied to a story arc in some yet-to-be-revealed way. The words "bad wolf" are scattered across the season in a variety of disparate locations...not all ( Read more... )

Cassandra is the self-styled Last of the Humans, and one of the attendees at the final destruction of the Planet Earth. She's also a completely flat piece of skin with a mouth and eyes, who needs to be constantly moisturized to avoid cracking. She's often described as a malevolent trampoline, because, well, she totally looks like a trampoline, ( Read more... )

Or...reavers. Is that what they're technically called? Whatever - Clock Roaches is an absolutely perfect name, so I'm using it ( Read more... )