Doctor Who – Extremis

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…

Game of Thrones 609 Battle of the Bastards and 610 The Winds of Winter

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…

Game of Thrones 607 The Broken Man

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…

Game of Thrones 605 The Door

"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…

Game of Thrones 603 Oathbreaker

Wheeee! So after a spiffy episode last week where there were amusing deaths and I felt seriously pandered to, this week feels a slight drop off. This is isn't to say it's a bad episode or sod all happened, but it wasn't terribly interested in moving along the story of most of my favourites, so…