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X-Men 97 is bottled nostalgia
When I rewatched the original 1990’s X-Men cartoon it was interesting to see that it wasn’t nearly as competent or as well put together as I remembered it being. It was still (largely) a pile of fun. The new X-Men 97 series is intended as a direct continuation of that original series and based on…
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I finally watched Star Trek Discovery Season 4
I gave up on Star Trek Discovery after Paramount began messing around with where and when Season 4 would be shown. This wasn’t a hard decision because the show had, by the end of season 3, essentially completed the broader story. After a long, circuitous and often grim path, Michael Burnham had become the captain…
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Smith Rewatch Finale: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
The one thing you never put in a trap is The Doctor, we were told earlier in the season. The one thing you never have to put in a trap is Stephen Moffat because he puts himself in them. The trap isn’t obvious but it closes tightly. Nu-who finishes each season with a big two-part…
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Smith Rewatch: The Lodger
Since this episode was made James Corden has gone from being a relatively famous sitcom actor to an internationally famous vaguely annoying guy. The writer of the episode fell into one of those transphobic mind warps that litter the English countryside and emerged TERFified. So has The Lodger dated as badly? Overall, it still works…
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Review: Rebel Moon (Netflix)
So imagine a cheesy 80s/90s sci-fi/fantasy book cover, not one with a big busty woman on it and maybe not one that ever existed except in your head. How about a long-haired bare-chested space guy wrangling a griffin in a wild-west corral? Or a ninja laser sword samurai lady fighting a giant humanoid spider creature?…
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Smith Rewatch: Vincent and the Doctor
The previous two episodes were an update of the a classic story, while this one is a new story but one that follows an established template. Pick a famous figure from history, cast an interesting actor to play them, add some alien/time-traveller/quasi-supernatural complication and have The Doctor solve it while the companion gets excited about…
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Smith Rewatch: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
As an adult fan of Doctor Who, I’ve never really engaged with non-TV spin-off media. I’m not into Big Finish audio dramas and even things like restored lost episodes of the classic series don’t really interest me. As a kid though…the Target novelisations of Doctor Who were things I just gobbled up. At the time…
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Smith Rewatch: Amy’s Choice
Toby Jones has a lot of fun in the role of one of those intentionally annoying divine like beings that torture the cast of science fiction shows. In this case he is The Dream Lord, who we eventually discover is just some sublimated chunk of The Doctor’s own self-hate made manifest by psychic pollen. On…
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Smith Rewatch: Vampires of Venice
It is all a bit of a hand-wavy plot, a historical setting, evil aliens up to no good and then The Doctor saves the day. If the basic story is almost a parody of a stock Doctor Who episode, it makes up for that with two other elements. The first is the location. Location filming…
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Smith Rewatch: The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
I had been very disappointed in Victory of the Daleks to the point of wondering if the show was no longer really something I wanted to watch. The next story in the Smith era proved to be an absolute classic. As people have already mentioned, this was actually the first filmed but you wouldn’t guess…
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