Category: Doctor Who
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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “In the Forest of the Night” (08.10, 2014)
Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce Directed by Sheree Folkson Since “Listen,” this season has really spiraled badly. It has lost track of the show’s usual mix of logic and science with magic and wonder, favoring the latter to such an extent that it has become absurd. It has lost track of any sense of Clara’s…
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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “Flatline” (08.09, 2014)
Written by Jamie Mathieson Directed by Douglas MacKinnon First, a note about last week’s episode: I did not review it because it was such a piece of unmemorable filler that I had nothing to say about it. I hardly remember it a week later–that’s how memorable it was. And then we get “Flatline,” which was…
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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “Kill the Moon” (08.07, 2014)
Written by Peter Harness Directed by Paul Wilmshurst The conceit of this episode is fairly simple: the moon is actually a giant egg that hatches some sort of giant space dragon that is forcing its way out in 2049. The Doctor arrives with Clara and Courtney Woods (the troublemaking student we met last episode) in…
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