Tag: Doctor Who
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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “The Magician’s Apprentice” (09.01, 2015)
“Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand. So here’s what you do: forget about the thousand, and concentrate on the one.” Steven Moffat has always been capable of a great turn of dialogue. He’s had an excellent sense of when to let them play out as melodrama (The “remember every black day…
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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “Dark Water” (08.11, 2014)
Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Rachel Talalay Everything in this episode seemed to be strong and interesting with one major flaw–it seemed that every scene was one step forward but the step was onto a rather narrow ledge. This episode opens with a cataclysmic event. Danny Pink is run down by a car, and…
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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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