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Do the Fans Ever Fail #DoctorWho?
Fans are a funny lot. You can lay everything out in front of them. Hand over a simple concept on a silver platter, just to make sure they know exactly what’s going on. You can prepare them as much as you want. Trust that the imagination of the viewer is one of the most potent and powerful weapons a writer has when putting a story out there. You can make it exceedingly clear that the show…
Revisiting the Year that Never Was: @bigfinish's #DoctorWho The Year of Martha Jones Reviewed
The Year of Martha Jones from Big Finish is what happens when actor availability becomes a blessing for a company, and where having company becomes the opposite of that for the character played. But it’s also a release that, no matter how much further suffering Martha Jones will be put through, fans of the franchise have been waiting on for a long time. The boxset kicks off in an American diner,…
The Brilliant Rise and Questionable Fall of Martha Jones in #DoctorWho
The premiere of Series 3 of Doctor Who was once again in the hot seat. It was unknown if Series 1 was even going to be acceptable as the same Doctor Who, much less a bonafide hit. Going into Series 2, there were major concerns about having to replace Christopher Eccleston with the relatively unknown David Tennant. Series 3 would be without Billie Piper for the first time, so there were still some…
Freema Agyeman Returns to #DoctorWho for @bigfinish's The Year of Martha Jones!
Freema Agyeman is returning to the world of Doctor Who as Martha Jones, in a new set of audio adventures for Big Finish! After more than a decade away from the TARDIS, the Tenth Doctor’s companion will be back in The Year of Martha Jones, to be released in December 2021. Set between the 2007 TV episodes The Sound of Drums and The Last of the Time Lords, these new stories explore the year that…
Lockdown Recommendations: #Lucifer
I see you’re sitting there, twiddling your thumbs, waiting patiently for Doctor Who Series 13. So. What to watch while you wait for the next series? Let’s put some ingredients together: Lead character looks human but isn’t.They have a British accent.They shamelessly namedrop all the people in history they’ve met (including Attila the Hun, Oscar Wilde, and many more).They can escape from…
#DoctorWho Lockdown Rewatches to End with Utopia/ The Sound of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords #YANA
The final Doctor Who lockdown rewatch organised by Doctor Who Magazine‘s Emily Cook happens tomorrow (Sunday 28th February 2021) – and for the first time, it’s a triple bill. Fans across the globe will be getting together, albeit virtually, to watch Utopia, The Sound of Drums, and Last of the Time Lords, the Series 3 finale. Astonishingly, these tweet-along rewatches have been happening, on and…
With Series 5 of Lucifer currently streaming on Netflix, Lucifer himself, Tom Ellis has spoken out about people saying he would make a brilliant future incarnation of the Doctor.
Ellis recently said that, had he been offered the part before taking Lucifer, he would have jumped at the chance to play the Time Lord. Now though, he isn’t too sure his fans would see him in the iconic role. He said:
This is a season 10 review. But probably not the one you were expecting. Actually, it’s two reviews, of sorts – two people, chewing the proverbial fat over Peter Capaldi’s final season as the Twelfth Doctor. We’ve littered it with quotes to make us sound better than we really are, and hope it looks like we have a plan. Just think how unbearable we’re going to be when we pull this off.
Unexpect…
Freema Agyeman could be returning to the role of Martha Jones, the Tenth Doctor’s companion, for the audio company, Big Finish. She at least confirmed that she’s been approached by the company numerous times, and hints that she may be recording something for them.
The actress – who has since appeared in the successful Netflix series, Sense8, as well as the medical drama, New Amsterdam – says:
We last saw the Master descending in a lift, in the hopes that he’ll make it back to his TARDIS on the lower levels of the Mondasian ship. The inclusion of John Simm’s incarnation of the Time Lord in World Enough and Time/ The Doctor Falls leaves a lot of questions: what happened to him back on Gallifrey – if that’s where he ended up following The End of Time? What happened to his TARDIS, as…
As we wait to learn just how the Master escaped the wrath of Rassilon and found himself on board a colony ship with the Mondasian Cybermen at the least-inviting hospital this side of The Evil Within, we thought that it would be a good time to go over some of the craziest ideas that the evil jackanapes came up with. Some of you scamps may have only recently joined the Doctor Who fold, so coming…
While I find quite a few problems with Last of the Time Lords, I enjoy much of The Sound of Drums. In fact, there are only two things I don’t like about it. The first is ageing the Doctor. Nothing especially wrong with that – just a personal preference. (Oh, but I really dislike him being turned into a tiny thing in the next episode: why get two of the best actors on TV – David Tennant and John…
Recently, I was rewatching the Master trilogy of Series 3 – Utopia, The Sound of Drums, and Last of the Time Lords – in preparation for John Simm’s reappearance in the latter half of Series 10. But this time, something leaped out at me. Martha’s plot thread is a missed opportunity. It’s easy to sit here with 10 years’ hindsight and no show-running experience and think that we could make a great…
Truth or consequences? No, wait, that’s a different one isn’t it? I don’t know, aliens these days – always imposing their own “truths” on us mere mortals. In The Lie of the Land, Toby Whithouse delivered a tale of Earth under an oppressive regime, the Doctor faking it, and Bill transmitting a message of love. In my review of the episode, I said: “Toby Whithouse is one of my favourite writers, and…
