Who Indeed
Last week was intense: Holy Week, Passover, and the beginning of the new season of Doctor Who! Also, my friend Marshall’s birthday. The moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars…...
View ArticleWho’s there?
Ten points for the person who knows, without looking at the internet, the name of the play for which that’s the first line. Today I’m going to talk about costumes. Specifically, costumes and the way...
View ArticleWhose Motorcycle Is This?
Today I’m writing my last post on “The 11th Hour,” the first episode of Team Moffat’s run on Doctor Who. (I write “Team Moffat” rather than “Stephen Moffat” because no matter how much control the...
View ArticleJuxtaposition of the Daleks
This last week’s episode of Doctor Who left me surprisingly cold. This is partly due to my having just watched John Woo’s Red Cliff, the best war epic I’ve ever seen: casting, pacing, scheming,...
View ArticleUnresolved Sexual Tension is Lazy
Saturday’s amazing episode of Doctor Who pricked me into thinking about unresolved sexual tension, which is so common in media these days that it has its own acronym (UST). Unresolved Sexual Tension is...
View Article“You have to remember what I told you when you were seven…”
I don’t read Doctor Who blogs, generally. That’s important to understand the following, much as it’s important to know that Marley is dead if you want to understand the beginning of A Christmas Carol....
View ArticleInterview at Flames Rising
I debated opening with some joke about how the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, but I think Mark Twain would personally return from the grave and smack me upside the head for that....
View ArticleA Taste of Who
Ready for some Doctor Who a month early? Because I know I am. Turns out that Team Moffat produced a miniature Who two-parter for Children in Need’s Red Nose Day. All the usual Moffat-Who stuff is in...
View ArticleI May Have an Interlibrary Loan Problem
The funny thing about libraries is, they expect you to give their books back. And I refuse to give books back if I haven’t read them, or at least beaten my head against them until the blood flows....
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