Tag Archive: Doctor who

The fundamentals of storytelling and how ‘Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum’ fails to incorporate them

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Tonight Doctor Who gave us The Tsuranga Conundrum. It stands out from every episode aired so far this series in one main regard: it’s bad and doesn’t function on any level. As usual… Continue reading

Lucy Re-View

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What’s a ‘Re-View‘? For starters it is either a horrible pun or a horrible abbreviation. For us it means we’re watching old shows or films and reviewing them. We’re ‘re-viewing’ them, or viewing… Continue reading

How to Make a GOOD John Constantine TV Show

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A cigarette smoking man steps out of the shadows in a long trench coat. If he’s near so is trouble. He’ll either save you or use you, or both. His name is John… Continue reading

Let our TV characters live!

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Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Daredevil, Battlestar Galactica and all of Joss Whedon’s work. What do they have in common? Death, death and more death. Not just the death of minor monsters… Continue reading

Elementary: ‘The Smartest Show in the Room’

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What’s the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation set in contemporary times? If you said Sherlock you’re wrong. It’s actually Elementary. I’ll go into reasons for why it is the better of the two soon,… Continue reading

I like Twitter

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I don’t do Facebook status’. Not more than one every 3 months in the last few years anyway. I share links I find interesting that others will hopefully do also. So in my… Continue reading

Doctor Who and the Adventure of the Rose-tinted Glasses

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Doctor Who has become a bit divisive recently. Stephen Moffat has been tearing many away from their childhood favourite through bad plotting with ridiculous premises, frantic episode pacing and bad characterisation. Or has… Continue reading

Why is Malcolm Tucker a hero?

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Next month begins the new series of Doctor Who. The most significant feature of the upcoming series is that it will be the debut series of Peter Capaldi as The Doctor. The role… Continue reading