Doctor Who Christmas specials are always the lowest point of the season, regardless of who’s writing them, and I think Moffat has a better track record of making them not suck than anyone else. There are only so many ways you can shoehorn Christmas into a story and still have it be interesting.

See also Happy, formerly on SyFy and based on the Grant Morrison comic, which had pretty much the exactly same scenario as a B-plot running throughout the second season. (Only it was good.)

It certainly got eco-friendly with Peri.

I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but those yellow horizontal glowing rock seams that keep showing up in the promo images for Boom look awfully familiar...

Also that what the hell ending would have made a tiny bit more sense if the Doctor explained that by defeating Maestro, music was flooding back into the universe, forward and backwards in time. That things would go back to normal and the timeline would reset itself eventually, but that the 1960's would forever be a…

Space Babies was extremely unobjectionable. Downright aggressive in it’s averageness.

Like most of RTD’s season openers, it was very silly (if you took a drink every time they said “space babies” you’d be in an alcoholic coma right now) and super light on plot, and mostly an excuse to quickly infodump what’s been…

Or that for-profit health care will willingly diagnose.
For chronic or tricky to identify blanket conditions like neuropathy/fibromyalgia, good luck getting any help from drive-thru health care providers like Kaiser. They used to just shrug and prescribe you pain killers... now they simply shrug.

Pretty much everybody…

At this point, I feel like Zaslav is deliberately feeding content to Ryan George.

Absolutely yes to physical buttons, brakes, gauges, and the all important spare tire. I was shocked by that last one the last time I went used car shopping.

While I suppose we live in an age where cell phone ownership and cell coverage is mostly universal, why the hell pay for a tow truck if you don’t have to?

And…

If anybody’s confused as to what’s going on, read this article:

It definitely sounds like RTD is back.... for better and for worse.

I am glad that Ncuti’s Doctor and Ruby appear to have more chemistry than they did in the Christmas special because, whew... that was a rough one to sit through.

I feel like RTD (and really all the show runners) could use a Classic Who script editor…

Hope it doesn’t steal the ending of the Doctor Who story I came up with during COVID, where it turns out there’s an alien culture where dueling is “illegal” in much the same way as it was in 18th century Europe... in that you basically just can’t be caught doing it.

So the solution is to take your private blood feud…

Ha! I’ve said almost verbatim the exact same things about Groundhog Day myself, including the fact that leaving the loop will cause massive psychological trauma. He’ll suddenly go from an omnipotent god leaving his safe predictable home of hundreds if not thousands of years to a confused PTSD mortal (albeit one who…

Same here. The only companion romance I had zero problem with was River Song, because Moffat specifically crafted that relationship in such a way that the two characters were on equal (or at least equally imbalanced) footing with each other. And if The Doctor ever had a “type” it would absolutely be River Song who’s…

When I said “hard Sci-Fi” I probably should have said “cautionary Sci-Fi.”
I was thinking more along the lines of the Kit Peddler stuff from the 60's, and Robert Holmes/Chris Boucher scripts from the 70's. Ark in Space and Robots of Death being the classic examples.

I think the closest Doctor Who has got to actual…

I’ve always viewed the character as being more asexual than sexually attracted to either males or females. Obviously a huge part of this comes from reading between the lines of the classic series mandate of “no hanky panky in the TARDIS” and companions like Jo Grant and Sarah Jane, who quite clearly loved The Doctor,…

RTD has, rather unfortunately, always leaned more towards Harry Potter than Hammer Horror or hard sci-fi (i.e. Doctor Who at it’s best), where it’s all loosely strung together spectacle and wonder, where you just kind of casually toss an explanation over your shoulder as to why the baddie is suddenly turning everybody…

As a big Don Coscarelli fan, I’m surprised I didn’t know about this book back when it was still available in hardcover.

I’m curious to know more about this prospective TV show. I looked up Adair Cole online, but I’m not familiar with any of his previous work. I really wish Don would team up again with Jason Pargin…

That silence you hear is is the collective fucks given by every North American Doctor Who fan who have had to deal with this minor inconvenience their entire lives. (Unless they happened to catch the premiere of The Five Doctors on PBS which aired on the proper 20th anniversary date instead of waiting for the…

This certainly has potential.
Though unless I start seeing rave reviews saying it’s as good as good as either of those two or The Endless, I’ll wait until it comes out on streaming.