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TARDIS Talk: “Under the Lake” (Series 9.3) (SPOILERS)

  • October 7, 2015
  • Tagged as: Cass, Doctor Who, persons with disabilities, Sophie Stone, TARDIS Talk

“Under the Lake” unapologetically stakes its claim in Doctor Who’s expansive territory of “base under siege” stories. It even ups the ante with a base, The Drum, that’s also under water and, by hour’s end,…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “The Witch’s Familiar” (Series 9.2) (SPOILERS)

  • October 2, 2015
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

Now that’s more like it! “The Witch’s Familiar” foregoes the epic set pieces and over-the-top theatrics of last week’s “The Magician’s Apprentice” in favor of a clean, compelling plot full of gripping, character-driven drama. Julian…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “The Magician’s Apprentice” (Series 9.1) (SPOILERS)

  • September 23, 2015
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

Who is the apprentice of this episode’s title? Is it Bors—poor, Dalek-ified Bors—as one might think from the highly amusing prequel episode “The Doctor’s Meditation”? Is it Clara, as the Doctor’s current companion? Regardless of…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “Last Christmas” (December 25, 2014)

  • December 31, 2014
  • Tagged as: Christmas, Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

“Last Christmas” is the most ambitious Christmas special Doctor Who has given us. What other adjective adequately describes a holiday entertainment that asks viewers to both disavow belief in Santa Claus and confront their own…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “Dark Water” (Series 8.11)

  • November 7, 2014
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

Contrary to my expectations, learning Missy’s identity wasn’t the most interesting thing about “Dark Water.” Sure, I’m curious to know how the Master escaped what appeared to be a self-sacrificial end in a blaze of…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “In the Forest of the Night” (Series 8.10)

  • October 30, 2014
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

Like the thoughts swarming so quickly around Maebh Arden that she couldn’t slow them down, the ideas in Frank Cottrell Boyce’s first Doctor Who story fly around so fast that I, at least, don’t feel…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “Flatline” (Series 8.9)

  • October 24, 2014
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

The sight of the Doctor’s hand moving the miniature TARDIS away from the train tracks in “Flatline” may be the weirdest sight Doctor Who has served up so far this season. (It’s certainly one of…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “Mummy on the Orient Express” (Series 8.8)

  • October 13, 2014
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

More than halfway through series eight, Doctor Who remains firmly on track. An artful and entertaining homage to Agatha Christie and old-fashioned mummy movies all at once, “Mummy on the Orient Express” also offers many…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “Kill the Moon” (Series 8.7)

  • October 9, 2014
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

Is “Kill the Moon” the first “base under siege” story in Doctor Who in which a base comes under siege from itself? Well, not the base, technically, but the moon—the egg—on which it stands. The…

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Mike
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TARDIS Talk: “The Caretaker” (Series 8.6)

  • October 1, 2014
  • Tagged as: Doctor Who, TARDIS Talk

So here’s a theory about the mysterious Missy, self-appointed “God” of the “Promised Land” (a.k.a. Nethersphere) to which deceased characters keep departing this season: She is the Doctor’s daughter. No, not Jenny, the super-soldier derived…

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Mike
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