Osgood is a U.N.I.T. scientist and certified fangirl. Her first name is arguably Petronella, but it's always possible she was lying (although why would you make that up). She is almost certainly related to the Sergeant Osgood who was the Brigadier's top technical expert in "the Daemons" - not only does she have the same name, she also has the ( Read more... )

The Drum is an underwater base under the titular lake in "Under the Lake" run by Vector Petroleum. I like it because it's an underwater base. I seriously have a thing for underwater bases. But also - how many times have you seen an underwater base that is not an undersea base? Doctor Who has had a number of spacecraft chilling beneath lakes - ( Read more... )

One of the major themes of this upcoming season is looking to be hybridity (based on the season opener at least) - the friend in the enemy and the enemy in the friend and all that. We got a look inside the Daleks in a way we really never have before, and a look inside their creator. There is wonderful symbolism in having Davros carrying around ( Read more... )

As thinkingingallifreyan is fond of reminding us, the Moon is an Egg. But what kind of an egg is it? Well, that's the very crux of the question. [spoiler: it's a dragon egg. Naturally ( Read more... )

A lot of the last several seasons has been dedicated to the question of what makes a Good Man. Danny Pink, former soldier and current Coal Hill School math teacher - and Clara's series 8 love interest - is a Good Man ( Read more... )

Robin Hood is, among other things, the titular character in "Robot of Sherwood." Is he a robot? Um...maybe? Probably not. But what he is is absolutely everything you expect from Robin Hood - green-clad, dashing, laughing in the face of danger, unrivaled in archery, noble thief, the lot. Which, honestly, is totally unexpected. He is Robin Hood ( Read more... )

Chalk has always been an item you can reasonably expect to find in the Doctor's pockets, but never so prominently or significantly as in his most recent incarnation. Chalk and chalkboard deduction is a major background (and occasionally foreground) schtick of the Twelfth Doctor and I love it ( Read more... )

Courtney Wood is a student at Coal Hill School, which puts her in the distinguished company of the Renegade Dalek Battle Computer and Susan Foreman. Unlike them, she is not an alien menace shrouded in mystery and plain old creepy kid vibes. Courtney is a fairly ordinary teenager, which is to say, deeply unhappy ( Read more... )

The Matrix is the greatest repository of knowledge in the universe. It is, among other things, where all the Doctor Who episodes are stored. Even the missing ones. Even the ones that haven't happened yet. It is the font of the Time Lords' power. It is simultaneously race memory and data storage. It would be completely awesome if they could ( Read more... )

I've written before on the fact that the insides and outsides of the TARDIS exist in different dimensions and thus can be, with some effort, decoupled from each other, and just how cool this is. In "Flatline" the outside of the TARDIS - and just the outside - gets shrunk down to itteh bitteh side and it's completely adorable. I love this gimmick ( Read more... )