Doctor Who: The End of Time Marks the End of an Era In Front and Behind the Cameras.
I am admittedly a multi decade Doctor Who fanboy, but I’m not an irrational one. I do believe that the health of the show since its return in 2005 is generally top-notch. We’ve had the pleasure over the past 5 years of seeing some of the best moments in the nearly half a century since the show’s inception . However, there’s a marked difference between Doctor Who in the 21st century vs. Doctor Who from the first 30 years. The End of Time, is a fitting example of some of the new show’s most enduring strengths and most nagging weaknesses. More importantly, it brings the new show to it’s most critical moment in it’s quest for long term survival, certainly a more critical juncture than the perplexingly sudden departure of Christopher Eccleston after one year in the title role leaking to the press immediately after the series premier.
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Doctor Who-The Waters of Mars: After 46 Years, the Program Still Has Some Shockingly Dark Places to Take Us.
Just one week before the 46th anniversary of Doctor Who you wouldn’t think there’d be many superlatives left. I’ve been an avid fan of the program for 25 years now and I don’t take the quality of the show lightly.
The Russell T. Davies era has brought us multiple superlatives for better and worse. At least two stories since 2005 rank what I consider among the best in the show’s 45 year run. Unfortunately, the lowest point and worst episode in the show’s history also has come out of the RTD era. The Waters of Mars is neither the best nor the worst in the show’s history, but it is far and away the darkest episode in the the series’ long run.
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If GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra Were a Horse, We’d Have to Put It Out of Its Misery.
I have to put the GI Joe phenomenon firmly in the same category as Transformers. While other kids my age were firmly engrossed in those two animated series in the 80s I was engaged in much more “mature” pursuits such as Star Trek, Doctor Who and mourning the loss of Three’s Company between planning my weekly schedule around Cheers and Night Court. However, the trailer for GI Joe tugged at the coolness factor of my long dead kid as well as the former lead actor from the recently resurrected Doctor Who, so I was hip for this, at least up until the first 45 minutes or so of sitting through it.
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead. The Second Special of the 2009 “Gap” Year is Stunningly Average
It was a big weekend for British science fiction as two cult programs made returns. While I’ll be covering the return of Red Dwarf after it’s decade long absence later this week, Doctor Who returned for the second of 4 specials to air in this “layoff” year after series 4. This also takes us one step closer to the close of David Tennant’s era as the lead actor in the longest running science fiction program in television history.
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Doctor Who - Matt Smith Chosen to Succeed David Tennant on the BBC Staple
Long time Doctor Who fans heads are probably exploding right now with the news that Matt Smith has been chosen to succeed David Tennant in the title role of the 45 year old program. At 26 years old he’s 3 years younger than Peter Davison when he took the role in 1981, a year before Matt Smith was born.
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Doctor Who - The Next Doctor…or not?
Christmas Day in the UK for the past few years has brought not only a joyous holiday celebration but joyous holiday television ratings in the form of geekish delight of the Doctor Who Christmas Special. As an in-joke, last year’s special had London evacuated on the holiday due to the mass panic of paranoia of further Christmas catastrophe. This year, the Doctor has decided to give the present day London a break and push the fright-fest back around 160 years to 1851. No break for London though as it gets some even more fierce destruction unleashed on the 19th century’s unwashed masses.
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Doctor Who - On the brink of extinction?
On the eve of the 2008 Christmas Special and on the trail of the official announcement of lead actor David Tennant and Producer Russell T. Davies leaving the series is there a danger on the horizon for the BBC’s flagship show or is it just getting started? There’s always a risk for a program when it loses it’s brains and charisma at the same time. This puts a whole new spin on things as we get our first fresh Who in a while this week.
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Doctor Who: Journey’s End
Four years ago, Doctor Who returned to the airwaves beginning a whole new mythology for the show while satisfyingly acknowledging the classic series as well. The contents of series 4’s last episode, Journey’s End tries to tie up most every loose end and unanswered question since the premiere in addition to tying up ends we didn’t know were loose in the first place. Russell T. Davies final regular episode of the series ends up being a long, gushing love letter to…Russell T. Davies?
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Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth
If you’re a long term Doctor Who fan or even just a fan of the new series, you were probably in one of two positions after the concluding moments of the The Stolen Earth: either laying face down on the floor or standing straight up in utter disbelief. This was one kick ass cliffhanger. But ultimately, where is this episode going to fit into the 45 year history of the show?
Old companions, old villains. The gang’s all here to close out the fourth series of Doctor Who.
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Doctor Who: Turn Left
It’s quite difficult to judge Turn Left on its own merits. It mostly exposition rolled into a fairly threadbare plot regarding whatever this time beetle thingy is attached to Donna. At least we can tick off the bit of foreshadowing from Fires of Pompeii now about what Donna has “on her back.”
It’s starts interestingly enough. Through some forces we don’t quite understand, Donna is put back into a position to relive a small moment in her life where a single decision was a catalyst for a series of events that changed the course of life on Earth. That event was simply making a right turn instead of a left one at an intersection.
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