In which I resurface to write about Legend of the Sea Devils.

Chapter Five of Doctor Who: Flux, Survivors of the Flux, returns to the frenetic jumping between settings seen in chapters one and three. A greater sense of urgency is balanced by disconcerting shifts in relative time. Yaz, Dan and Jericho have to cover more ground across more time than anyone else. The Doctor’s experience en route to and at ( Read more... )

Some remarks by me on last week's episode, before its context is changed by Survivors of the Flux later today:

I’m not able to offer reviews of every episode in this current series of Doctor Who, but Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels captivated with its grim sense of inevitability, its subversion of the Doctor’s control of events, and its ( Read more... )

After a very long night last night I'm not able to sleep tonight, so have finished watching Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass on Netflix. I'm not sure whether it was the towering work of art its admirers have hailed, but I don't think it was the damp squib its detractors have pointed to either. I could sense that it was full of references to other ( Read more... )

Thoughts over here on the first issue of Lytton, the limited comic series about the mercenary created by Eric Saward for Doctor Who in the mid-1980s, written by Saward himself and drawn by Barry Renshaw, published by Manchester-based Cutaway Comics. Also posted at https://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/2020/11/12/lytton-1-by-eric-saward-and-barry- ( Read more... )

( Picture as it appeared at The Event Library, where this post first was made )

( Image as shared on The Event Library, where this post first appeared )

Finally, a few minutes before Praxeus started, I completed my write-up of Fugitive of the Judoon for the Doctor Who News Page.

Also posted at https://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/2020/02/02/fugitive-of-the-judoon.html.

I didn't manage to review Orphan 55, which I found very variable - a weak set-up, strong but overearnest middle and solid conclusion with a final speech which wasn't quite earned and some odd choices throughout - I did enjoy Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, and some of what I thought is set out here.

Also posted at https://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth. ( Read more... )

I undertook the review of the second part of Spyfall for the Doctor Who News Page even though time was much more limited this week. The changes in the way I recalled the episode over the few days in which I wrote it are probably apparent! I enjoyed it, but I had a few concerns about some crucial moments.

Doctor Who 12.2 - Spyfall: Part Two, at ( Read more... )