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Doctor Who: The Big Bang

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Tonight’s Doctor Who, The Big Bang, was farce.  Not quite pure farce.  More like 90% farce.  Not bad farce.  Proper farce.  Farce in a good way.  In a The Importance of Being Earnest or Noises Off kind of way. It could take its spiritual importance from the second half of The Importance of Being Earnest’s […]

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

So we got jammy dodgers, Where Eagle Dare, Asimov, Troughton and Daleks references for fun. Nice Dalek model on the plotting table to set them up and I thought the olive drab Daleks looked really good with the little Union Jack.  The new look Daleks don’t look quite so good.  I wonder if the main […]

Doctor Who: The Beast Below

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

So the second outing for the 11th Doctor tonight in The Beast Below. Interesting take on future Britain as a starship.  The sets were nicely dressed and with some interesting colour.  There was a lovely mix of retro, post war, grimy Britain littered with British icons with incongruous details like the rickshaws.  Small quibble if […]

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