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Shall We Destroy?: Reaction: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012. Reaction: THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE. Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Farren Blackburn, 2011. So, was it me, or is this basically total shite? That it manages to be simplistic yet somehow still laboured, is, I suppose, a triumph of sorts. But it’s entirely lacking in danger, far too well-equipped with wildly hokey concepts (piloting a disguised-wood spaceship thing through the vortex with the power of a mother's maternal instincts? I’ve spoken before about h...
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Shall We Destroy?: “A box with little windows! Terrific!”
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Friday, 22 June 2012. 8220;A box with little windows! Written by Steve Parkhouse, drawn by Mike McMahon, 1981. Comic collection is a bit blah overall - the stories are the sort of light silliness you'd expect of a seventies comic tie-in, rather than the sort of thing actually delivered in The Iron Legion. Notably, The Star Beast. By contrast, is something else. I know I’m behind the curve here… by thirty-one years (the closest I’ve got to it previously being an Adrian Salmon. They’re effortlessly m...
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Shall We Destroy?: April 2010
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Sunday, 25 April 2010. Reaction: THE TIME OF ANGELS. Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Adam Smith, 2010. Although not up there with Steven Moffat’s best stories, the bravura pre-titles sequence alone puts Victory of the Daleks. Stringent traditionalism in the shade. A country park, spaceship, and River Song contacting the Doctor across 12,000 years and blowing herself out of an airlock… That’s a brilliant couple of minutes of Doctor Who. Forest of the Dead. But then there's still next week's episode,...
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Shall We Destroy?: Stuart Manning
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Thursday, 12 January 2012. Apologies for the lack of recent updates (I've been posting more on my film/TV blog, Wild Horses of Fire! However, The Wedding of River Song. And The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. Reviews will be forthcoming in the probably-quite-immediate future. And after that I've got a bazillion other reviews lined up, of all manner of Who. Ish marvellousness - so fear not! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The sarah jane adventures. Adventures with the wife in space. Mush on a stick.
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Shall We Destroy?: "Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream"
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Thursday, 18 March 2010. Ice cream. Ice cream. Ice cream". Review: SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY/FOREST OF THE DEAD. Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Euros Lyn, 2008. It’s funny, but rewatching this story my overriding impression – over its cleverness and complexity, or visual beauty – is how emotional it is. I’m not one of those people who pride themselves on crying every episode, and lap up every contrived Emotional Moment, but for the whole last half of Forest of the Dead. I cried and cried. Self-aware ...
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Shall We Destroy?: Reaction: THE BIG BANG
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Sunday, 27 June 2010. Reaction: THE BIG BANG. Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Toby Haynes, 2010. Less a story than a puzzle box, though exhilarating The Big Bang. Can't help but be ultimately anticlimactic, given that nothing is resolved. I don't know what I was thinking, really, imagining that, say, the Dream Lord, or some similar vengeful supervillain would be responsible for the TARDIS' destruction. Obviously I reckoned without Steven Moffat's wormy brain. The revisit of The Eleventh Hour. Espec...
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Shall We Destroy?: Reaction: FLESH AND STONE
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Sunday, 2 May 2010. Reaction: FLESH AND STONE. Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Adam Smith, 2010. As Steven Moffat has made the analogy of this story being the Aliens. The overrated and dumbed-down action version, then? Presumably Weeping Angel³. Underrated, but beautiful and uncompromising) and Weeping Angel: Resurrection. Of which, frankly, the less said about the better*) will soon be on their way… Not to mention the superb and not superfluous at all Weeping Angel vs Smiler. Forest of the Dead.
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Shall We Destroy?: Reaction: LET'S KILL HITLER
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Thursday, 6 October 2011. Reaction: LET'S KILL HITLER. Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Richard Senior, 2011. As for River, in a way I sort of preferred her as a mysterious-but-glam archaeologist, though it’s undeniably good fun to see her psychopathic programming in action. Mels takes the piss a bit though: she’s like a refugee from some alternative-universe Hollyoaks. Case in point: River giving up her regenerative ability to save the Doctor is. However, overall, there’s something quite shon...
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Shall We Destroy?: January 2010
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010. Review: FROM OUT OF THE RAIN. Episode ten of Torchwood. Series two, written by Peter J Hammond, directed by Jonathan Fox Bassett, 2008. A one-off review of a single episode from Torchwood. 8217;s second series might seem random, but consider it the episode that broke the camel’s back. I haven’t actually watched that much Torchwood. Admittedly, Children of Earth. Was a massive step up, and heartening because, at the time of From Out of the Rain. Has to be the most irritating, s...
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Shall We Destroy?: November 2009
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Monday, 30 November 2009. The old man must die". Review: PLANET OF THE SPIDERS. Written by Robert Sloman, directed by Barry Letts, 1974. In the run-up to the Tenth Doctor’s swansong. It seems appropriate to attempt a re-evaluation of one of only three regeneration stories which thematically address the outgoing Doctor’s ‘death’. That acknowledge the momentousness of the current incarnation’s demise; in The Tenth Planet. The Parting of the Ways. And the exchange about the Brigadier’s watch is great ...
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