John Smith, Gone But Not Forgotten

I thought that there was, quite simply, no way that “The Family Of Blood” could live up to the greatness of part one of the story, “Human Nature” that was shown last week. The second half of all bar one of the two-parters that have graced our screens over the last three years have been a little bit weaker than its preceeding installment. Additionally, Human Nature was such a fantastic 45-minutes of TV that it was always going to be nigh-on-impossible to top. I was ever so wrong.

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Tags: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Family-of-Blood, Human-Nature, Jessica-Hynes, Paul-Cornell, Remembrance, Russell-T-Davies, Time-Lord

Whose Boat Is It Then?

The twenty first week of the year came up trumps for some top quality viewing, which was for the best considering the terrible weather we’ve been having that’s forcing everyone indoors. The eighth week of The Apprentice was a bit of a weak affair relative to the rest of the series but still managed some great “reality” moments with Jadine finally being fired. I’m tempted to go into more detail on these episodes but I could do no better than (in fact, I couldn’t do anywhere near as well

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Tags: Andrew-Marr, Apprentice, David-Morse, Doctor Who, England, General, House, Lost, Paul-Cornell, West-Indies

Mr & Mrs
If part two of “Human Nature” lives up to the standards of this week’s part one, then I have a feeling that this may go down as one of the best Doctor Who stories of all time. Paul Cornell (read his blog, for it is good) is returning as a writer for the first time since “Father’s Day” way back in 2005 and he is in fine form. Adapted from his New Adventures novel of the same name, Human Nature starts with the Doctor and Martha seemingly in the middle of an escape from an unseen adversary.� However, realising that they have the ability to chase him

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Tags: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Freema-Agyeman, Human-Nature, Jessica-Hynes, John-Smith, Paul-Cornell

Doctor Who Retrospective #7 of 10 “Father’s Day”

Wow, just realised that I wanted to finish this retrospective series of reviews before Series Three debuts and suddenly the day is here and I still have the final four reviews left to do. Ah well, I may save the remainder for another time (or even squeeze ‘em in via a blitz of watching and reviewing today… we’ll see how the Other Viewer feels about that). Father’s Day was the eighth episode of the first series and it introduced an extremely significant character into Rose’s life, her father,

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Tags: Doctor Who, Fathers-Day, Paradox, Paul-Cornell, Pete-Tyler, Reaper, Richard-and-Judy, Rose-Tyler, Time-Travel