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Happy Halloween, everyone in the time zones where it's October 31st. It was another lean Halloween for me. It's a good thing I spend the whole month watching horror movies. This past week, though, my internet speed has been shit so streaming services were frequently interrupted by the old spinning loading dot with its little comet trail. I wonder ( Read more... )

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While I do like Steven Moffat, my favourite Twelfth Doctor episode of Doctor Who was written by Jamie Mathieson, "Mummy on the Orient Express". It's odd because the next episode, also written by Mathieson, is just so-so, "Flatline ( Read more... )

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I watched The Hand of Fear again last week, the Doctor Who serial from 1976. The whole four part serial is good but I especially admire the first episode. I mean, I guess the special effects for the first few minutes don't hold up to-day, though if you're like me, it's no impediment. But I'd unabashedly stand by everything else after that. It's a ( Read more... )

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And this week's was yet another good episode of Doctor Who. How tragic Davies decided to start the season with what's looking to be the two weakest episodes by a long shot.

"Dot and Bubble" was already being compared to Black Mirror before it came out but, let's be honest, Black Mirror took a lot of influence from Doctor Who and The Twilight ( Read more... )

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I've been rewatching the Twelfth Doctor run on Doctor Who lately. I started with his first full episode, "Deep Breath", which aired in August 2014, just about ten years ago. I remember when a decade seemed like a long time, crikey ( Read more... )