Since we won't get any new Doctor Who this year (whyyyy?), I've been randomly rewatching parts of the Moffat era as well Thirteen's first season. This didn't cause me to come to any new conclusions (the Twelfth Doctor seasons are my favourite of Moffat's reign, Chibnall's first season is enjoyable without being spectacular), but it reminded me of ( Read more... )

Doctor Who:

Aka when happens when Stephen Moffat looks at the last decade or so of movies having a go at Superman, thinking "nah!" and "I want to do a Golden Age Superman story, dammit! And a Superman/Doctor Who crossover!", and proceding to do just that. ("Miss Schuster and Miss Siegel": I see what you did there, Moff.) The result is the most ( Read more... )

With Doctor Who everywhere for the anniversary, literally on a global level, it's perhaps easy to lose sight of the fact that in 2005, when the show was relaunched, it was by no means guaranteed it would find a new audience. Especially considering the previous attempt to bring back Doctor Who - the movie of doom - had failed miserably. And the ( Read more... )

Joss Whedon and the Much Ado About Nothing cast answer questions about the film. There are jokes (there would be with the Usual Suspects involved), but also serious discussion. I think the first time I came across the "Beatrice and Benedick had a brief fling in the past which ended badly and that's what Beatrice's cryptic line to Don Pedro refers ( Read more... )

I am very pleased Judi Dench just got nominated for a BAFTA for her work as M in Skyfall, though confused about the category, because what do you mean, "supporting"? Clearly M was the leading female ( Read more... )

I hate bullies. Internet bullies who believe they're propagating "social justice" while doing their bullying are a particularly revolting suspecies. God knows I have my own criticisms of Moffat's writings, but death threats? With an added low of also going after twelve-years Caitlin Blackwood, who plays young Amelia Pond? What she saidNot that this ( Read more... )

Well, mostly. But in truth, the international edition of the BBC iplayer put Moffat's series Jekyll online and since I had forgotten what annoyed me about the pilot (which was all I had watched before) back in the day, other than James Nesbitt antipathy which I knew could be handled as since then, I had liked him in other roles, I decided to give ( Read more... )

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As was to be expected, the recent Doctor Who episode has already inspired fanfic. Two lovely episode tags, celebrating that most Whovian of 'ships the episode deals with:

Wonderfully and fearfully made

The conjugal bed

And a meta love declaration for that same ship: Bigger on the inside.

Neil Gaiman blogged about writing the episode: ( Read more... )

Since I have a few new people on my flist, let me repeat last year's pimping of In the Bleak Midwinter as one of my favourite Christmas movies. Directed and written by Kenneth Branagh but not starring him, about a Christmas production of Hamlet in the provinces, featuring the usual Branagh suspects as the ensemble, witty and despite stern ( Read more... )