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Big Trouble in Ancient China (Traversing “Marco Polo”)
Often when Doctor Who visits Earth’s past, a lot is made of whether the characters can “change” history or not. Outcomes vary, but it’s oddly refresh…
2 years, 7 months ago
Ultimate Fighting Championship (Disarming “The War Games”)
Season 4 Episode 20
The Doctor tends to find himself thrust in the middle of many battles throughout history, but what if he landed in the middle of all of them? That ma…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Trouble With Gallifrey
Season 4 Episode 19
The original revelation of the Doctor’s origins was a slow burn: It took Doctor Who six seasons to finally give concrete answers to who he was and wh…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rage-Quitting Doctor Who: A History
Season 4 Episode 18
Whether you’re a fan of a TV show, movie series or comic book, it’s almost guaranteed your fandom will be tested at some point. As creative teams com…
2 years, 8 months ago
Hospital Food (Regurgitating “The Tsuranga Conundrum”)
Season 4 Episode 17
If you’re going to attempt a tense thriller in Doctor Who, sometimes the horror can get really intense, such as in The Waters of Mars. And sometimes…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jones and Smith (Courting “The Doctor’s Wife,” with guest Dave Kitchen)
Season 4 Episode 16
When is a TARDIS not a TARDIS? When it’s a bitey mad lady, of course. Yes, The Doctor's Wife shows a side of the show’s signature blue box that we’ve…
2 years, 8 months ago
Invasion Inception (Thwarting “The Invasion of Time”)
Season 4 Episode 15
You’ve got to hand it to the Doctor — he’s single-handedly saved Gallifrey almost as many times as the Earth, and The Invasion of Time even lets him …
2 years, 8 months ago
Who Counts as a True Companion?
Season 4 Episode 14
It’s a long-debated subject among Doctor Who fans: Who counts as a companion? It used to be that traveling in the TARDS, typically across different s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Treasure Flap (Pillaging “The Smugglers”)
Season 4 Episode 13
In the new series, it’s customary to offer freshly onboarded TARDIS crewmembers a choice: Would you like to go to the future or the past? Back in the…
2 years, 9 months ago
One Really Small Step (Eclipsing “Kill the Moon”)
Season 4 Episode 12
“Fearlessly bonkers” is how director Paul Wilmshurst described Kill the Moon, a — shall we say ambitious? — episode of Doctor Who that presumes the m…
2 years, 9 months ago