Area Man Reads Fake Newspaper Headline, Skips Article

Area Man Reads Fake Newspaper Headline, Skips Article

TARDIS had half a day.

TARDIS had half a day.

Well, it's clearly both - this is an episode that clearly started out as a weak-ass MOTW episode onto which someone stapled Frank Black in a kind of halfhearted "ehhh, let's toss Millennium fans a bone" sort of gesture.

Well, it's clearly both - this is an episode that clearly started out as a weak-ass MOTW episode onto which someone stapled Frank Black in a kind of halfhearted "ehhh, let's toss Millennium fans a bone" sort of gesture.

@avclub-fe667cc638187e2a2ed9661c0b94f457:disqus  - The kind of "ideas" that turn up in New-Who are ideas like, "This alien is evil and scary and bad, and we know that he's evil and scary and bad because he looks evil and scary and bad!" And "history is a time-wimey magicky-wagicky thing that we can never ever change,…

@avclub-fe667cc638187e2a2ed9661c0b94f457:disqus  - The kind of "ideas" that turn up in New-Who are ideas like, "This alien is evil and scary and bad, and we know that he's evil and scary and bad because he looks evil and scary and bad!" And "history is a time-wimey magicky-wagicky thing that we can never ever change,…

You are missing nothing but a mediocre-at-best science-fantasy show with bad acting and worse writing. The series has gimmicks where it should have plots, melodrama where it should have character development, and collections of tics and catch-phrases where it should have characters.

You are missing nothing but a mediocre-at-best science-fantasy show with bad acting and worse writing. The series has gimmicks where it should have plots, melodrama where it should have character development, and collections of tics and catch-phrases where it should have characters.

I mainly hate on Doctor Who for calling itself "Doctor Who," rather than calling itself "Show About Random Idiot Who Runs Around Saying Gibberish Things Quickly Which We Have Decided To Give The Name Of That Old, Unrelated Series, Doctor Who."

I mainly hate on Doctor Who for calling itself "Doctor Who," rather than calling itself "Show About Random Idiot Who Runs Around Saying Gibberish Things Quickly Which We Have Decided To Give The Name Of That Old, Unrelated Series, Doctor Who."

"Millennium" was just about the saddest, most half-baked sorta-attempt to provide closure to a cancelled show. I remember wincing my way through half of it, and sighing wistfully through the rest - Henriksen is just too awesomely Henriksenish not to bring back fond memories of a time when Millennium-the-series was…

"Millennium" was just about the saddest, most half-baked sorta-attempt to provide closure to a cancelled show. I remember wincing my way through half of it, and sighing wistfully through the rest - Henriksen is just too awesomely Henriksenish not to bring back fond memories of a time when Millennium-the-series was…

Nah - ruining your own life is the most essential Charlie work of all.

Nah - ruining your own life is the most essential Charlie work of all.

I would have been happy if the show quit for good in the 90s at this point, to be honest.

I would have been happy if the show quit for good in the 90s at this point, to be honest.

I've talked about this before in the context of DS9 (another Ron Moore-related project), but I'm always, always wary when religion turns up in science fiction, because for the most part it ends up getting handled by writers who don't understand how religion works in the real world, why it appeals to people, etc. The…

I've talked about this before in the context of DS9 (another Ron Moore-related project), but I'm always, always wary when religion turns up in science fiction, because for the most part it ends up getting handled by writers who don't understand how religion works in the real world, why it appeals to people, etc. The…