The new series of Doctor Who has been on for six weeks now. Torchwood ended a little before that. A lot to review – and nothing to show for it. Anyone would think I’d been ill or something.
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I have to say I’m glad I’ve stumbled across ‘Ahistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe’. I’m suprised I wasn’t aware of it’s existence before now. I have treasured ‘A History of the Universe’ by Lance Parkin for a dozen years or more. I have a fetish for encyclopedic works about fictional and…
Noted the recent release of the Doctor Who: The Key to Time – Complete 7 Disc Box set) and have every intention of getting it the moment I win the lottery (yes, that soon!). I can see it’s one of those shameless money-grabbing re-releases with a smattering of additional material – but, considering I don’t…
Bizarrely enough, in the current vote to find the fan favourite Doctor Who clip from Season Three, the highest number have fans have voted for the scene right at the end of the series where the Titanic crashes into the TARDIS interior. Why? I have to admit to being totally flummoxed by this voting pattern,…
For my part, I find science fiction equals comfort. I could easily sit down for a mammoth session of Star Trek or Doctor Who in the same way I might settle in with a big tub of ice cream or a bumber tube of Pringles. I find the experience somehow soothing. I disengage to a…
I think that the problem with a new Doctor is that it challenges what we’ve grown comfortable with. I mean, who would have thought that anyone except William Shatner could play Kirk? Thing is, unlike ‘Star Trek’, Who challenges you with change every few years (or a couple if you’re unlucky, Colin). So, we, as…
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