– I’m a Time Lord. I’m the last of the Time Lords. They’re all gone. I’m the only survivor. I’m left travelling on my own because there’s no one else.
– There’s me . . .
Right, so: after the introductory episode in which we establish that the Doctor is alien and has a spaceship that [...]
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Looking Back at Doctor Who: End of the World
June 15th, 2010 · View Comments · doctor who, reviews, television
Tags:billie piper·cassandra·christopher eccleston·doctor who·end of the world·face of boe·rose·season one·series one·zoe wanamaker
Looking Back at Doctor Who: Rose
June 10th, 2010 · View Comments · doctor who, reviews, television
If you’re from another planet, how come you sound like you’re from the North?
Lots of planets have a North.
Confession: Though I enjoyed the few episodes I watched, I was never a huge Doctor Who fan. If I remember correctly, in the early 80s the show came on directly after 3-2-1 Contact, and I remember getting [...]
Tags:2005 series·billie piper·christopher eccleston·doctor who·first series·russell t davies·season 1·TARDIS
Thoughts on Lost – The End
May 24th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
I had this dream last night — Jack and Sun somehow got together after they were tasked with setting everything on the island back to rights. I’m not kidding. There was a Jack-Sun hook-up. This is not the first LOST-related dream I’ve had in the last five months, either.
Here’s another story: In my junior year [...]
Thoughts on Lost – What They Died For
May 19th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
I wonder if anyone else writing about this show found it hard to formulate thoughts about this penultimate episode, since it built up such a nice momentum going into the finale that I’m almost content to wait and see how it all plays out on Sunday. (I can’t believe this is going to be over [...]
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Very Concise Thoughts on Doctor Who – “Flesh and Stone”
May 17th, 2010 · View Comments · reviews, television
Alternate title: A Brief Sketch of My Thoughts on the Latest Episode of Doctor Who, in Roughly Chronological Order:
1. Nice.
2. Awesome.
3. OMG SCARY.
4. Awesome.
5. And also scary.
6. Seriously. Creepy.
7. Ha!
8. Aw. Sniff.
9. Ha!
10. Ha ha!
11. Nice.
12. Ugh.
13. UGH.
14. REALLY?
15. Seriously, REALLY?
And now a bit more detail: We just came off a season during which there [...]
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Thoughts on Lost – Across the Sea
May 12th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television, writing
Here’s the thing about origin stories: they’re never going to fully satisfy one’s need to know everything. Origins — true beginnings — simply don’t exist. There’s always something that came before, always the question “How?” looping back, over and over, until finally you get to a shrug and the unknowable.
The Mother says as much to [...]
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Thoughts on Lost: The Candidate
May 5th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
I’ve been reading a good deal of posts and tweets and other sorts of status updates about this episode, all from people who were absolutely devastated, reduced to a blubbery mass of tears, over what transpired in the second half of this episode.
Me? Not so much.
It upset me, for sure (my refrain last night was [...]
Thoughts on Lost – The Last Recruit
April 21st, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
I’m just jumping right in. I mostly liked this episode, though I grow increasingly tired of the way our group comes together and splits up, comes together and splits up, and all anybody ever seems to do is wander around the island. It’s a wonder they ever got off the island in the first place. [...]
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Thoughts on Lost – Everybody Loves Hugo
April 14th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, reviews, television
Well, now.
Well.
I didn’t take many notes as the show aired — compared to last week’s “Happily Ever After,” this was a relatively uncomplicated, straightforward episode in which characters move, the plot moves, and no new mysteries or questions crop up. In that, it was highly satisfying. There were still a few things I could’ve [...]
Thoughts on Lost: Happily Ever After
April 7th, 2010 · View Comments · lost, television
Why are Desmond episodes so good? It’s partly because Henry Ian Cusick is just so good, so fun to watch, but it’s also because Des eps always have to do with the timey-wimey stuff, the scientific explanations for why the island is like it is, its powers and limitations. It’s the same reason the Locke [...]