Wooooo!

Happy Halloween!

Hostile Dimensions

Hostile Dimensions review on the more general blog, a found footage movie about, hey, a mysterious door that leads to other times and places. A better found footage Doctor Who than the one the series actually made, if you don’t mind some blood and naughty words.

Only fourteen months to go

Doctor Who to return, without Disney money, for Christmas 2026. Which I suppose explains the DWM arguments about where it’s dead or not.

We’ll get The War Between The Land And The Sea in the meantime, sometime late this year apparently.

The Door In Time 2025?

Could run Doctor Who this academic year. I’d probably manage more than eight episodes.

40 years, 5000 sessions!

A GM talks about running Doctor Who for forty years! Starting with the FASA game and incorporating a variety of systems, outside adventures, players guest GMing sessions. In case you didn’t know how versatile a story engine Doctor Who is.

(My record is six years for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which is pretty versatile as well, and players taking producer roles and running a couple of sessions factored in too.)

Doctor Who: the CBeebies cartoon

The Doctor coming to CBeebies, as announced today.

Anywhere and Anywhen

Eight episodes, not enough, now I want to run Doctor Who again.

The War Between The Land And The Sea

The War Between The Land And The Sea trailer. Having a whole other series goes some way to make up for only getting eight episodes this year including a Doctor-light one.

The Reality War

15.2.8 The Reality War

Anita! Yay!

Wish World

15.2.7 Wish World

After a What The beginning, the classic reality is not as it seems to torment someone. And Conrad was already a prick, but even for a fascist that really leaned on retrograde thinking for a guy in his twenties these days. Bowler hats?

Although of course his Doctor Who book looks like that.

The Interstellar Song Contest

15.2.6 The Interstellar Song Contest

As multicultural things with lots of weird costumes and effects and eccentric side bits that goes out here on BBC One, Eurovision and Doctor Who have always been a bit connected, so here we are.

But as an actual episode it’s as RTD says Eurovision meets Die Hard, and that’s fun, and it’s also a lot of surprise guests.

Belinda rightly gets the big crying moment.

I was just thinking we haven’t had any animal people this year.

Iona Anderson (Wynn) looks so much like Eve Myles I was expecting that to come up somehow.

The Story And The Engine

15.2.5 The Story And The Engine

Largely a bottle episode - I wasn’t surprised when I learned writer Inua Ellams is a playwright. (Thanks to Emmet Asher-Perrin at Reactor for linking his prologue to the episode.)

Having downplayed Ncuti Gatwa’s Blackness, an episode stemming from where the Doctor feels more accepted. Various Doctors have had places to go and feel at home, but the ones we’ve seen are usually with recurring supporting cast in the U.K.

The delayed reveal of the Barber had me expecting him to be someone familiar. I hope he will be, or this gets us more of Ariyon Bakare as wise and possibly sinister mysterious characters.

Big slow artistic spider probably not going to set off too many arachnophobes, which is nice.

Lucky Day

15.2.4 Lucky Day

Going into the back half of the season unspoiled - I’d seen clips showing Ruby organising the defence of the pub and the bit with her telling the story (which in isolation made me wonder if this was really her?) but that was it.

So I didn’t know what was coming at all.

Dalek at 20

Having brought back Doctor Who could they bring back the Daleks and make them work?

Yes.

James Whitbook for io9 on Dalek twenty years on.

The Well

15.2.3 The Well

Happy to have one Aliens episode every year or two, and I appreciate the yes-obviously-Aliens-ness of it. And the Planet Of The Vampires look of the suits. (See also the second Aquaman film.)

And a heart-tugging central guest performance by Rose Ayling-Ellis as Aliss.

And then...

... Okay, you can get away with bringing back a scary one-time-only monster if you wait seventeen years.

And another bonus for watching the credits.

Next week, Ruby! And after that, I have no idea...