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Doctor Who (2005) s03e10 – Blink
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 21, 2020
Blink is apparently not a backdoor pilot to a “Doctor Who” spin-off where recognizable cast—in this case Carey Mulligan on her way up—interacts with the world of Doctor Who without necessarily having to do a lot of scenes with David Tennant. Or Freema Agyeman, who’s second-billed but feels read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e09 – The Family of Blood
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 20, 2020
So I thought this episode—wrapping up a two-parter about the Doctor (David Tennant) turning himself into a human so as to avoid some aliens who are hunting him and losing himself in early 1900s England—wasn’t going to get any worse after Tennant, having regained his memory and alien… superpowers read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e08 – Human Nature
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 18, 2020
I didn’t have a great feeling when I saw Paul Cornell with the writing credit but I forced myself to be hopeful. Plus, Charlie Palmer directing, surely it would be all right. What’s the worst Cornell would do, another overly melodramatic time waster… And, yes, he does do another overly melodramatic read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e07 – 42
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 16, 2020
There have to be TV shows where they unintentionally duplicate episodes. Soap operas, whatever. The same plot must get repeated. Unintentionally. Because it very obviously happens intentionally, such as with 42, which is a riff on a great two-parter from last season, only without anything similarly read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e06 – The Lazarus Experiment
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 14, 2020
What is this show’s problem with companions’ mothers? We briefly met new companion Freema Agyeman’s mom, Adjoa Andoh, in the season premiere and she seemed fine. Nope. She’s possibly even more annoying than previous companion’s mom Camille Coduri, which doesn’t even seem possible, but the read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e05 – Evolution of the Daleks
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 12, 2020
Last episode I went in pretty hard on the British actors playing Americans but I think I may have emphasized accents too much. Hugh Quarshie’s accent isn’t bad. His performance is bad, his accent is fine. Whereas Andrew Garfield’s accent is bad and his performance is bad. Though even Garfield read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e04 – Daleks in Manhattan
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 10, 2020
So… Nicholas Briggs does do the Dalek voices in this episode. He’s been doing all of them, which is weird because the Dalek voices this episode are terrible and so… I figured it was other actors. But no. It’s Briggs. And he’s terrible. I was waiting for the Daleks to show up—they’re trying read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e03 – Gridlock
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 8, 2020
Really nice direction from Richard Clark this episode; really nice. It’s a strong episode overall, because it’s set out in space in the future, which are usually the best “Who” episodes (so far), but this episode manages to do it with a bunch of regular humans. Well, not regular humans. 5 billion read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e02 – The Shakespeare Code
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 7, 2020
I was expecting more from The Shakespeare Code. Dean Lennox Kelly’s Shakespeare is rather wanting. The characterization of it all seems more Knight’s Tale than anything historical or original. There are numerous quotations throughout, usually David Tennant making a quip and Kelly saying he’s going read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e01 – Smith and Jones
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 6, 2020
New only-other-billed actor (but technically not the new companion yet) Freema Agyeman guest starred at the end of last season but is playing a different character here. Thank goodness. Agyeman is a medical resident, so it’s going to be the Doctor and a doctor going forward, which is a lot better read more
Doctor Who (2005) s03e00 – The Runaway Bride
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 5, 2020
How does the Doctor (this time David Tennant) usually respond to his companion leaving the show for, presumably, their own projects? Does it matter if you inherent your companion from the last Doctor? Have English school teachers been reading themes on this subject for decades now? I’m vaguely curi read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e13 – Doomsday
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 4, 2020
The BBC does market research, don’t they? I’d love to see what their “Doctor Who” market research says as far as target audience. For instance, this episode—the momentous, earth-shattering (literally?) season finale, which will change the Doctor (David Tennant) forever–has the many experience read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e12 – Army of Ghosts
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 3, 2020
One Earth episode without Camille Coduri was clearly too much so she doesn’t just appear in this one, she also pretends to be daughter Rose (Billie Piper) and play companion to David Tennant. Coduri and Tennant don’t grate as sharply as one might’ve feared (hard to imagine her and Christopher read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e11 – Fear Her
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 1, 2020
For an Earth episode, especially one with a strangely disjointed narrative with dueling MacGuffins, Fear Her is okay. There’s not a very high bar for the Earth episodes so getting to see David Tennant and Billie Piper doing an ad for the 2012 Olympics in London. They show up—six years into Piper’s read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e10 – Love & Monsters
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 30, 2020
It’s a not bad concept episode (written by Russell T. Davies, which seems weird but whatever) about a regular bloke (Marc Warren) who records a video diary on his digital camcorder to upload at 160×120 to his FTP server to share his story about the Doctor. I mean, it’s a YouTube doc before read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e09 – The Satan Pit
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 29, 2020
So, the title sort of gives away the big reveal. The Satan Pit refers to the giant hole in the middle of the planet, where they’ve already dug twelve miles down and sent David Tennant and Claire Rushbrook to investigate. She wants to go in the existing pit, as opposed to the tunnel they dug. Tennan read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e08 – The Impossible Planet
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 28, 2020
The Impossible Planet has just what “Who” needs… right now anyway. There’s a new director to the series (James Strong) and a new writer (Matt Jones), and they give the series a push in a better (arguably best so far) direction. Is there going to be any momentum… probably not. “Who,” read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e07 – The Idiot’s Lantern
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 27, 2020
I had high hopes for this episode. Higher hopes. Between writer Mark Gatiss, who wrote something last season and I didn’t hate it because I don’t remember his name, and director Euros Lyn, I figured it would be fine. I just didn’t predict it’d be such a middling fine. Once again the Doctor (David read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e06 – The Age of Steel
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 26, 2020
I had low expectations for this episode, given the first installment was so unimpressed; writer Tom MacRae and director Graeme Harper do not improve at all this episode. The perfunctory cliffhanger resolution does nothing to ratchet up any enthusiasm. The stakes are simple—the Cybermen are taking read more
Doctor Who (2005) s02e05 – Rise of the Cybermen
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 25, 2020
The cold open of this episode looks pretty bad and the direction on the actors is terrible so I was just waiting to see it was Keith Boak. Then the opening titles rolled and I got a little hopeful upon seeing the writing credit—Tom MacRae, new guy (all the “Who” writers are guys so far), and the read more