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Happy (not necessarily genetic) Father's Day!

6/21/2015

by Helen Langdon

There’s gonna be a lot going around today about the best fathers in the world. But here’s the thing – sometimes the best dads aren’t necessarily the ones that give you part of their DNA. Maybe they’re related, and maybe they’re just convenient male figures in your life. Today we’re taking a look at some of the best surrogate father figures on TV.

Mothers' Day: The Mums of Doctor Who

5/10/2015

Not that type of Mummy

by Helen Langdon

Last year we talked about the dads of Doctor Who. This Mothers’ Day, why don’t we look at some of the best mums of Doctor Who? Motherhood means caring about your child, putting their welfare above your own, but it also means being able to let them go when they want to fight aliens and travel around the universe. Here are some of the Doctor Who mums we admire.

Who Only Live Twice!

4/4/2015

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by Helen Langdon

It’s that time of the year where Christian societies celebrate a man who died and came back to life so that we could all eat chocolate. And teach us about love and peace and stuff. But how does this relate in a geeky context? Well, what about those TV characters who died and came back to teach us a lesson about the fact that beloved characters never die? While a lot of TV shows are guilty of using the Back From The Dead trope, it’s Doctor Who which has turned it into an artform.

Doctor Who News: Guess WHO'S Back

2/20/2015

BBC

by Helen Langdon

It was the big reveal of the eighth season of Doctor Who. Missy, the mysterious woman who’d been haunting the Doctor’s steps and pushing him and Clara together, wasn’t just any old villain – she was the newly regenerated Master (after all, Steven Moffat made the Doctor female in The Curse of Fatal Death – it was only a matter of time before gender-bending Time Lords made it into the Whoniverse proper). But at the end of season finale “Death in Heaven” she was disintegrated by a Cyber-Brigadier. Wasn’t she?

Doctor Who "Last Christmas" Review (Spoilers!)

12/29/2014

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by Leah Stone

Have you ever come a cross a plot that do a lot to confuse you and tries hard to be intelligent but doesn't really do much else? This year’s Doctor Who Christmas special is basically that. It’s along the same lines as Inception, however they’ve replaced Leonardo Di Caprio with the grumpy and grouchy 12th Doctor. You don’t ever quite know what is real and what isn’t, so it is very easy to just get lost in figuring out the plot and not focusing on the other aspects.

Doctor Who "The Caretaker" Review (Spoilers!)

9/28/2014

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by Leah Stone

There always have been problems at Coal Hill School. It was the setting for the very first episode of Doctor Who, as the Doctor’s grandchild, Susan Foreman, was a student there. In Remembrance of the Daleks, the Daleks set up base at the school. Now, Clara is a teacher there, and in this week’s episode the school faces the threat of a Skovox Blitzer, one of the most dangerous creatures ever created, and one that had enough ammunition to destroy the entire planet.

TV Teaser: Doctor Who

9/26/2014

Doctor Who "Time Heist" Review (Spoilers!)

9/21/2014

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by Leah Stone

This week’s episode was like a Hustle special of Doctor Who.

Did you ever think The Doctor would be a criminal? No?

This week’s episode will prove you wrong.

TV Teaser: Time Heist

9/19/2014

Doctor Who - "Listen"

9/14/2014

by Cookie N Screen

Doctor Who has always been one of those shows that tentatively balances between the jovial family spirit and the downright petrifying. Ever since its conception, it has made children cower behind the sofa as aliens and monsters terrorized the screens. In New Who, there have been several episodes that have similarly captured that sense of dread and a handful of them were written by Steven Moffat. The show runner, even in isolated scripts during Russell T Davis’ era, has proved repeatedly he can give very good reasons for our (ir)rational fears. For example, Blink made those life-like statues monstrous and The Forest In The Library made us all afraid of the dark. Well, in Listen, Moffat is back in full force, to spook us all.

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