Thanks to Netflix, I've recently watched all three available episodes of the BBC's new Sherlock, written by Doctor Who writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gattis. If you haven't heard yet, it's Sherlock Holmes stories set in the modern day, meaning that Holmes uses the Internet a lot to find out information -- for example, when doing the traditional ( Read more... )

It seems I have committed the cardinal sin of being the modern Doctor Who fan. I let myself get carried away with my expectations, and on top of that I forgot that modern Who isn't being written for the old-school fans with decades of continuity at their fingertips, or at least not entirely for them. So as a result, I was a little let-down by this ( Read more... )

I watched "The Impossible Astronaut" on Sunday morning, courtesy of Amazon. (I switched from iTunes to Amazon for my Doctor Who viewing, if anyone cares. This may prove to have been a mistake, as the picture quality seems a bit poorer at fullscreen, and the audio all comes out of my left speaker, for some reason.) Wow, that was a head trip, wasn't ( Read more... )

This is fantastic.

The fourth one, especially, killed me. I kept looking at it, cracking up, seeing some new detail, and then cracking up again.

OK, look...I don't do this TV thing very much anymore, so I'm a little fuzzy on how it works, and I need some assistance ( Read more... )

Not much I can say outside the cut, since I know at least one or two readers haven't seen "The Big Bang" yet...I even discarded several clever subject lines, just to be safe.

( Spoilers! )

BBC America started showing Doctor Who two weeks after it aired in the UK (give or take a few hours), which wasn't nearly as cool as the next-day deal they did on the specials last year, but two weeks, OK, that's doable. Unfortunately, they decided not to air a new episode on Memorial Day weekend, for the same bizarre reasons that Sci-Fi made a ( Read more... )

Yeah, more Doctor Who. I've seen "Flesh and Stone" now, and I'm starting to see what all the fuss is about.

( Best to be safe. )

Hey, check me out! I went three whole posts without talking about Doctor Who! In fact, I wondered whether it was worth posting about "The Time of Angels" at all, given that it's a two-parter, and many people who might read this have already seen Part 2. But I think I need to say a little bit about it because once again, I underestimated Stephen ( Read more... )

It's really getting kind of sad that I have nothing to talk about in my blog other than the latest episode of Doctor Who. But my "life update" goes pretty much like this: Been working, with some interesting developments I can't talk about just yet. Spending a lot of spare time with Sparky's baseball and soccer games. It's unexpectedly hot this ( Read more... )