“I’ve just spent the last hour putting up the new garden swing chair, while the hoomon just ran around throwing tennis balls at me and chewing the destruction booklet. I’ll maybe let him share the chair with me sometimes.” — Summer.
Yearly archives: 2016
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … A great start to the 6-part The Chase and an immediate improvement on the previous story. Beginning with a fun TARDIS sequence, enjoyable because we get to see the crew interacting without any jeopardy, the episode opens with the Doctor fixing the Time/Space Visualiser […]
70. The Executioners
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … After Ian rescues the Doctor, what follows is an episode of everyone sitting around waiting for the plot to unfurl around them. A rather muted end to a rather muted story. The Doctor comes up with some gadget doohicky reason for the “time track” […]
69. The Final Phase
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The adventure continues but the plot doesn’t progress (which, given how little plot there is, is quite a disappointment). Hartnell is absent, even from the cliffhanger in which Ian supposedly finds him. Hartnell’s absence is both a blessing and a curse. We miss his […]
68. The Search
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The adventure starts now as the regular runabout, with the authorities and the rebels each wanting to get their hands on the intruders. With the exception of the Doctor’s interrogation, there’s precious little of merit here. Some of the characters (largely the white suited […]
67. The Dimensions of Time
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … This opening episode is intriguing but, having seen it before, it doesn’t really have much rewatch value. The strange things that happen aren’t given any even vaguely logical explanation – just slipping a groove in time, and the Doctor not being sure about the […]
66. The Space Museum
“Yaaayyyy! Walkies! I’m making my hoomon run – just to keep his legs ready for his upcoming Half-marathon, you understand…” — Summer.
The World According to Summer
“Can I come out to play, yet? Puh-lease……” — Summer.
The World According to Summer
“I’m here, I’m waiting, I’m trying to work out what you want… You wanna play?” — Summer.
The World According to Summer
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Due to the “missing” nature of some early Doctor Who adventures, I only have the audio version of The Warlords.Once again the “older” Ian Chesterton’s scene (from the original BBC VHS release, included in the DVD set) details as much as is necessary of […]
65. The Warlords
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … The third episode of The Crusades returns to visual as well as audio, giving us a much clearer understanding of what the cliffhanger was all about. Barbara is kept hidden by a hated enemy of El Akir, who himself is shortly captured. In trying to […]
64. The Wheel of Fortune
Doctor Who, season 2 continued … Due to the “missing” nature of some early Doctor Who adventures, The Knight of Jaffa is reviewed here as the audio version. It’s difficult to get a true understanding of the episode without the visuals and, indeed, the last few minutes prior to and […]
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