Tournament of Time – The Masters
Given random pairings of eight screened portrayals, we decide which Masters are more important to the full Doctor Who story, and who we’d most love to see again.
Classic Rewatch: Frontier In Space
Doctor Who has always been rife with complex backstories and themes of conflict drawn from the news and events of the time. Call it “present day problems, presented in another day”, if you will. From workers striking against the regime, to species in tense stalemates on the brink of war, to contending with the horrific aftermath of genocide and mutually assured destruction, the program has used our own chaotic world and its occupants as the inspiration for otherworldly tales. When […]
Classic Rewatch: The Claws of Axos
This gem from 1971 has Pertwee and Delgado at their finest, wardrobe and special effects at their most questionable, and a story that just pops.
A Masterful Villain
It makes perfect literary sense. How do you create a villain who is legitimately threatening, an engaging and interesting match for the protagonist’s strengths, but is not over-powerful? Simple solution: You take the hero, and make them evil. If someone is so near to your intellectual and capable equal in nearly all counts, the “chess match” is all the more balanced, and victory that much harder to attain. So it makes sense that Doctor Who showrunners would nurture such a perfect foil, and […]