Doctor Who, SFF, history, and other things I think about far too much
Well, not just first impressions, the first couple of episodes impressions, which in the terrible ways of modern telly is a third of a season. I'm currently having Voyager on in the background while doing chores and it's twenty-six episodes a season. TWENTY-SIX. I've stopped being bitter about Kes leaving because in modern terms she's…
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So here’s the thing: I’ve been enjoying this season of Doctor Who very much, it’s fun and delightful and Bill is superb, HOWEVER, it has also been Wholly Unsurprising; other than the Doctor acquiring a professorship and more permanent Earth residence. Every story so far, I can more or less guess the plot beats if…
JUST OUT OF TIME (I finished writing just before this week's ep, but didn't manage to post it before I watched since PROOFREADING takes time; yes, I proofread these things, yes, I know I have many typos), this week’s rather late review type thing of Doctor Who. Spoiler: I loved it lots. I may repeat…
It’s late, I know. And ACTUALLY late, not just in the same week, but not as timely as I’d like late. NEVER MIND. Let’s cast our minds back a week and a bit to what was at the time MAYBE my new fav episode of the series. But now it has definitely settled down just…
So last week's Doctor Who was PRETTY DARNED GREAT. Here are SOME WORDS about how great it was (if you don't want words, I was also talking about this ep on last week's Teevee podcast with me Verity! cohort Erika Ensign, and Jason Snell): SO PRETTY. I do like a pretty episode and this ep…
There was a Jessica Jones ep called Smile, wasn't there? I ASSUME THAT BODES WELL. (it did not bode as well as I thought it might, alas.) I do love it every time the Doctor admits he stole the TARDIS. I don't know why. It just delights me. Much like the Doctor OH SO DELICATELY…
Doctor Who is back on the tellybox! HURRAH! And so begins a new exciting series of NOT REVIEWS on this blog. Now you might be asking, possibly, heh, didn’t you do these so-called non-reviews last season of Doctor Who and NOT ACTUALLY FINISH? And, yes, that is correct. So, I shall be, er, finishing off…
Game of Thrones, remember that? I was doing a super timely review thing after each ep and then thought it would be extra awesome to wait weeks after the final episodes before finishing it off. Yes. I didn't forget. That would be silly. BUT GOSH. If you can remember what happened in the last two…
Continue reading ➞ Game of Thrones 609 Battle of the Bastards and 610 The Winds of Winter
Lovejoy! LOVEJOY'S IN THIS EPISODE! Ah, is there anything Ian McShane can't do? Mostly I'm quite sad at him being this nice guy in this nice community and then they all die. One might possibly argue that I should have suspected Imminent Death given they were decent people who just turned up, but no, I…
"Liz, by the end of this episode, you will be bawling your eyes out...for Hodor." "Do not be ridiculous, Hodor is an undeveloped, one-note character who's there, sadly, for cheap laughs, and to be The Big Dumb One. It is not a character trope that delights me. And this is not a particualrly interesting interpretation…
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