[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

4×12: “The Stolen Earth”

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up” – C.S. Lewis

There are moments in adulthood when you yearn for the thrill of youth. Usually, it’s at times when your body doesn’t quite behave in the way it should and always has done before, when they stop making birthday cards with your age on them (ever seen a “Happy 37th” card?), when you hear yourself for the first time starting a

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Tags: Captain-Jack, Childhood, David Tennant, Doctor Who Forum, Donna, Harriot Jones, Medusa, Rose, Russell-T-Davies, Shadow Proclamation, Stolen Earth

4×11: “Turn Left”

In much the same way that Martha Jones’ arrival in Torchwood for three episodes heralded the begining of a trilogy of stories based on Owen Harper, we have now seen the hotly anticipated return of Rose in a story focussing heavily on the new companion, Donna.  Many will argue that this is all just and proper given the tour de force that Catherine Tate delivered in this, the 11th episode of Series Four. The same people will be

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Tags: Bad-Wolf, Billie-Piper, Catherine-Tate, Donna, Martha-Jones, Neil Gorton, Rose, Sarah-Jane, TARDIS, Turn Left

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

4×02: The Fires of Pompeii

Just from the pre-credit sequence, you could determine that, if nothing else, we were in for a visual treat with The Fires of Pompeii as the sets at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome were sumptuous and gave a depth and richness to the exterior shots that was a cut above 95% of any other dramas you care to mention. The other hints of what was in store came from the dialogue between DT and CT (a useful shorthand that is gaining popularity on “teh internets”), here we

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Tags: Caecilius, Cambridge Latin, Catherine-Tate, Cinecitta, David Tennant, Donna, Peter Capaldi, Phil Davis, Pompeii, Pyroviles, Rose, Vesuvius

4×01: Partners In Crime

Season premieres from year’s past have all been thematically similar.  Russell T Davies pens a tale that introduces the audience to the new dynamic of Doctor/Companion that serves to set the scene for what’s to come over the next 12 weekends with the story generally seeming of secondary importance to character.  In 2005, Rose kicked off the new era as the very first story (re)introducing us to the mythology of the show through the wide eyes of the eponymous,

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Tags: Bernard Cribbins, Billie-Piper, Catherine-Tate, David Tennant, New Earth, Partners In Crime, Phil-Collinson, Premiere, Rose, Russell-T-Davies, Sarah Lancashire, Smith-and-Jones, TARDIS, The-Runaway-Bride