As I’ve been watching and then writing about this second season of the current era of Doctor Who, I haven’t been able to help noticing the similarities that many of the stories have with their parallel episodes from the previous year. For instance, both first episodes were big…
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One night I was looking for something to watch and I landed on this, a 2022 Doctor Who-related documentary film, primarily about writer Matthew Jacobs and his experience connecting with the American side of Doctor Who fandom. Jacobs is the scriptwriter for the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie,…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve actually watched anything but the newest episodes. Before that, I was making a respectable run at getting through the original series, most of which I haven’t seen for decades. For various reasons,…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve actually watched anything but the newest episodes. Before that, I was making a respectable run at getting through the original series, most of which I haven’t seen for decades. For various reasons,…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve actually watched anything but the newest episodes. Before that, I was making a respectable run at getting through the original series, most of which I haven’t seen for decades. For various reasons,…
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Lucky Day, by Pete McTighe, is the fourth episode of the current season, and continuing the odd trend of this season mirroring the last one, it has a lot in common with the parallel episode from last season, 73 Yards. Both are “Doctor-lite episodes” that focus on Ruby…
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Sam leaps, not into anyone but as himself, to a bar in a mining town Pennsylvania on the very day of his birth. There he helps some miners who are trapped in a mining accident, but more significantly, he a bartender named Al who seems to know everything…
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Another month behind us. April was a bit less dynamic than March from a family perspective–none of my daughters got married, after all. But it’s been plenty busy in other ways. My wife launched out on a trip to Africa to help run some seminars for teachers. And…
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There have been some strange parallels between this current series of Doctor Who and the previous one, both produced by returning show runner Russell T. Davies. Each season is planned for 8 episodes. Both season openers—Space Babies and The Robot Revolution–are brightly-coloured whimsical pieces of nonsense. Each second…
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As mentioned previously, in “Impossible Voyages” I’m watching and writing about a run of new (to me) science fiction films to be watched over this year (and possibly beyond). You can read the rationale and ground rules here. In the meantime, we are advancing from 1930 to 1932 with…
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