Seeing Red

Joe Lidster seems to have penned a cracking story of the Sarah Jane Adventures if Part One of The Mad Woman in the Attic is anything to go by. A more creepy and less manic outing than the knockabout Judoon romp of last week, this tale focussed heavily on the character of Rani. An interesting twist was put on the scooby gang’s relationships as we found that the aforementioned Rani still felt like a bit of an outsider since her relatively late arrival after the departure of Maria. While in a bit of sulk about things, she got an email from an old friend asking her back to the town of Danemouth where she used to live, so she headed off to prove her independence. It appears

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Tags: Clyde, Doctor, Elizabeth Sladen, Joe Lidster, Luke, Mr Smith, Rani, Sarah-Jane-Adventures

[Even though it's a couple of days late, here's my Doctor Who review for Journey's End.  I'll add the pictures to the review later on (which won't matter for those RSS readers among you) but which brightens up my blog no end.  Please feel free to add your comments and thoughts?]

Hello dear reader(s). Well, how was it for you?  9.4 million people tuned in to Saturday night’s Doctor Who finale to be treated to sixty-five minutes of wonderful, sci-fi nonsense.  The abundance of newspaper articles across the whole gamut of broadsheets as well as the more typical tabloid fodder, plus guest appearances on TV shows and even features on the Six O’Clock news itself led to a kind of Who-Shot-JR

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Tags: BBC, Captain-Jack, Catherine-Tate, Daleks, David Tennant, Davros, Doctor, Journeys End, Rose, Time-Lord

The Poison Sky was the conclusion to last week’s cliffhanger although we then got another surprise one tagged on the end of the episode, which was only slightly spoiled by the BBC’s “One to Watch” trailer earlier in the day, more on that later though.  It hardly took a great mind to work out the best way to rescue poor Wilf from the car, in fact while the “great mind” was tinkering about under the car with his suddenly impotent

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Tags: BBC, Bernard Cribbins, Confidential, Doctor, Donna, Martha, One to Watch, Poison Sky, Rose, Sontaran, UNIT, Valliant, Wilf

Doctor Who Retrospective #9 of 10 “Boom Town” 

Boom Town got mixed reviews on first showing and in hindsight this may have been because it was shown following after The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances double bill, which will undoubtedly become one of the classic stories of the 43 years of this show’s history. It is certainly a filler episode, set in contemporary Cardiff (i.e. on the doorstep of the production team’s home) and features a re-use of the Slitheen (thankfully fart-free) so soon after their debut, so from a production

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Tags: Annette-Badland, Boom-Town, Cardiff, Christopher-Eccleston, Deus-Ex-Machina, Doctor, Doctor Who, noel-clarke, TARDIS, Torchwood