Category: Wizards Vs Aliens

Wizards Vs Aliens "Twilight Falls" Review (Spoilers!)

11/27/2014

by Helen Langdon

The first season of Wizards vs Aliens had six stories (12 episodes). The second went a bit bigger, with seven stories (14 episodes). This third season kept it short and tight, with just five stories and ten episodes. But the length wasn’t all that changed. While the previous two seasons were jointly overseen by co-creators Russell T Davies and Phil Ford, Ford was flying solo on season three. This meant a move away from monster-of-the-week style adventures, and towards a more coherent season-long narrative, as the Lady Lyzera plotted to ransack the Neverside and Tom battled to come to terms with his magic again.

Wizards vs Aliens "The Key of Bone" Review (Spoilers!)

11/19/2014

by Helen Langdon

In this series, Wizards vs Aliens has had to deal with the loss of some of its major characters on both sides of the ongoing war, as well as introducing new characters and upping the stakes in the battle for magic. And up until the most recent episode, “The Key of Bones,” it was doing so well. But this episode? Not so much.

Wizards Vs Aliens "The Daughters of Stone" Review (Spoilers!)

11/13/2014

by Helen Langdon

“The Daughters of Stone” is the first Wizards vs Aliens episode without Benny (with Percelle Ascott’s name now gone from the credits), although it’s not like he’s been wiped out of the universe entirely. Tom asks what would Benny do, and the answer is, probably much the same as Katie does. In this story light on the aliens and heavy on the wizards, Katie calls Tom in to investigate ghosts in her grandfather’s theatre, which turns out to be a witch from the Neverside (witches are entirely different to wizards, being evil, and leave the negative gender connotations aside).

Wizards vs Aliens "The Quantum Effect" Review (Spoilers!)

11/4/2014

by Helen Langdon

Well, that wasn’t exactly a boring, status-quo-upholding story from Wizards vs Aliens, was it? Over the course of the two parts, Benny was recruited by an astrophysicist to save the world from global warming, Ursula and Michael were told creatures from the Neverside were appearing in the real world, and Varg created a new way to trap wizards. But none of that is what’s changed Wizards vs Aliens forever.

Wizards vs Aliens "The Secret of Room 12" Review (Spoilers!)

10/31/2014

by Helen Langdon

With a short montage summation of its basic premise (magic and wizards are real, normal people are the “Unenchanted” rather than Muggles and aliens want to eat all of the magic), Wizards vs Aliens is back for a third series. When we last left the magical crew, Ursula had died and come back, Benny had come out (after all, Russell T Davies wrote it), and Tom had averted the destruction of the Earth (again) and sent the Nekross back to Nekron. After a summer free of the extra-terrestrial threat, it’s back to school time! And this time, the main threat doesn’t come from the Nekross, but instead a new group of aliens, the Consolidation, who want to remove the Earth’s core.

Wizards Vs Aliens "Twilight Falls" Review (Spoilers!)

Wizards vs Aliens "The Key of Bone" Review (Spoilers!)

Wizards Vs Aliens "The Daughters of Stone" Review (Spoilers!)

Wizards vs Aliens "The Quantum Effect" Review (Spoilers!)

Wizards vs Aliens "The Secret of Room 12" Review (Spoilers!)

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