Classic Rewatch: The Twin Dilemma
Teen math geniuses are abducted to help carry out an evil plot, but the newly-regenerated Sixth Doctor is in poor shape to help effectively.
Classic Rewatch: The Caves of Androzani
The Doctor and Peri are quite literally caught in the crossfire of a drug-fueled power struggle that they had absolutely nothing to do with, and yet pay the ultimate price for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Classic Rewatch: Planet of the Spiders
Everyone has their phobias, be they great or small. For some, they focus on mortal dangers, like heights, open waters, small spaces. For others, they are rooted in the misunderstood or the alien, such as snakes, French mimes, or spiders. So what is the Doctor’s fear? What is that one flaw in their character that could be exploited so adeptly by a powerful adversary, that even they are found without rebuttal, without a plan, without a solution? It’s rats, isn’t […]
Twice Upon a Time
This week, we bid a most emotional farewell to our Twelfth Doctor, and shout in triumphant welcome to our Thirteenth. Steven Moffat gives us his final television story, and more characters returning than you could have imagined, in “Twice Upon a Time”.
Talkin’ About Regeneration
No one is quite sure whether regenerations are harder on the Doctor or his fans. Sure, he’s literally rewriting every cell in his body, but we’re seeing the close of a relationship with someone whom we don’t want to leave. One of the reasons why it seems so difficult may be the uncertainty over exactly who the next Doctor is going to be: physically; behaviorally; psychologically; emotionally. But maybe it’s not quite an unknown after all… We are in many ways a product of […]