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Doctor Who (2005) s02e04 – The Girl in the Fireplace

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 24, 2020

The Girl in the Fireplace is an exceptionally affecting star-crossed lovers story, with the Doctor (David Tennant) happening across a portal to 18th century Versailles and—initially reluctantly—becoming involved Madame de Pompadour (Sophia Myles) as he tries to save her from time-traveling automato read more

Doctor Who (2005) s02e03 – School Reunion

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Jun 22, 2020

They did a CGI werewolf episode, so why not a CGI vampire episode—except the vampires are aliens who can’t really turn into humans except Anthony Head (get it, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” non-vampire, playing a vampire, get it—also, he plays the headmaster of a school; headmaster; get it). read more

Doctor Who (2005) s02e02 – Tooth and Claw

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 18, 2020

Tooth and Claw opens in nineteenth century Scotland, where a bunch of royals get attacked by a group of monks who know wire fu. Is it good wire fu? No. But it’s odd enough to get one interested and then it’s only a few minutes before David Tennant and Billie Piper find themselves in the same castle read more

Doctor Who (2005) s02e01 – New Earth

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 17, 2020

I just realized—while I was watching New Earth, which aired almost four months after the Christmas special, it never occurred to me how weird it is the show doesn’t try to establish Billie Piper’s relationship with the new Doctor (David Tennant). They have a bunch of scenes together but most of read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e13 – The Parting of the Ways

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 14, 2020

This episode just ought to be called Deusest Ex Machina because it turns out everything this season has been building towards is a giant reset for the series. Which does make sense, given the Doctor gets reborn whenever they recast, but it completely dismisses the idea of Christopher Eccleston havi read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e12 – Bad Wolf

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 12, 2020

At least it’s got Joe Ahearne directing. I mean, it’s not terrible. Guest star Jo Joyner is a nice “romantic” interest for Christopher Eccleston, which is this standard thing where Eccleston and Rose Piper go to some time period and don’t spend any time together and Eccleston has this chaste read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e11 – Boom Town

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 5, 2020

This episode is easily writer Russell T. Davies’s best so far. Maybe it helps he’s got Joe Ahearne directing, who’s even able to weather the Noel Clarke storm. Though it’s a new Noel Clarke. A moody one who’s not hanging on Billie Piper’s every word hoping for a kiss. In fact, they suggest read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e10 – The Doctor Dances

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 4, 2020

It’s a disappointing conclusion. It’s not a bad episode, but it’s a fairly obvious, kind of silly finish to the much stronger first episode. Partially because the show never really finds its footing with Christopher Eccleston and John Barrowman, who are now in a pissing contest for a number of read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e09 – The Empty Child

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 3, 2020

It’s a really creepy episode. Like, really creepy. Writer Steven Moffat comes up with a fantastic “villain,” this little kid in a gas mask who calls out, “Mummy,” over and over again. And then when he touches you, you get infected with something and eventually turn into a gas mask covered read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e08 – Father’s Day

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 2, 2020

I went into Father’s Day with high hopes; Joe Ahearne directing, Paul Cornell writing. I remember hearing about the episode (albeit vaguely) when it first aired because I knew Cornell’s comic book writing. So I went into the episode full of goodwill. It’s all about the obvious kid going and saving read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e07 – The Long Game

The Stop Button Posted by on Jun 1, 2020

This first half of this episode is really strong. The second half, not so much. Even after stunt guest star Simon Pegg gets better in the second half it’s not any better. Writer Russell T. Davies doesn’t have a good resolution for the episode’s intrigue and no matter how effectively executed the read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e06 – Dalek

The Stop Button Posted by on May 30, 2020

Okay, this one requires some disclaimers. First, when I watched the last episode and saw the preview of this one, I thought it looked terrible. Like, rolling my eyes terrible. Second, I was visually familiar with the Daleks from growing up in the eighties and whatever. I thought they were silly and read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e05 – World War Three

The Stop Button Posted by on May 29, 2020

Digital video in the mid-aughts was still very rough. Around the time World War Three came out, some of the best DV cinematography wasn’t being done in film or television but in art and technical schools, as creatives were figuring out how to best light for the medium. In other words, I understand read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e04 – Aliens of London

The Stop Button Posted by on May 28, 2020

Director Keith Boak is back and it’s obvious from go some of the problem with Boak-directed episodes is Boak’s a bad director. Some of the problems are budgetary, but Boak and cinematographer Ernest Vincze even make the non-effects stuff look like bad digital video. There’s an anti-suspense suspens read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e03 – The Unquiet Dead

The Stop Button Posted by on May 27, 2020

So the time and space machine is imprecise? Is that a “Doctor Who” thing? They bumble through the time? Because this episode is supposed to be Billie Piper getting to see nineteenth century Christmas in Naples or someplace but instead they end up in Cardiff (Cardiff gets a lot of deriding this epis read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e02 – The End of the World

The Stop Button Posted by on May 26, 2020

This episode is so much better than the previous one. So much better. And the only difference, besides setting and it not introducing a new lead character (Billie Piper), is a different director (Euros Lyn). Or maybe writer Russell T. Davies just had much better ideas for this one? Though the speci read more

Doctor Who (2005) s01e01 – Rose

The Stop Button Posted by on May 25, 2020

I am not a “Doctor Who” person. I’ve known some “Doctor Who” people, I count good friends as “Doctor Who” people. But there’s no way to talk about this show without prefacing with… I don’t get it. I still don’t get it. It’s like you have to be a certain kind of anglophile. What’s read more

Classic “Doctor Who” Time Travels Back to American TV

Cinematically Insane Posted by Will McKinley on May 29, 2014

Doctor Who fans in the United States are getting a (slightly late) 50th anniversary present. And it involves jelly babies. Starting this summer, 489 episodes from the sci-fi series’ initial, 26-season BBC run (1963-1989) will begin airing nationally on Retro TV, “the original classic programming read more

Doctor Who at the Movies

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 23, 2013

The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is an excellent time to look back at some of the actors who have played the adventurous Time Lord in the long-running British television series. For many actors who portray the iconic character, the role defines their careers, but you'll find them in some interesti read more

Doctor Who at the Movies

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Nov 23, 2013

The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is an excellent time to look back at some of the actors who have played the adventurous Time Lord in the long-running British television series. For many actors who portray the iconic character, the role defines their careers, but you'll find them in some interesti read more
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