Category Archives: Doctor Who
A Doctor Who Video Game is On the Way
I don’t believe I’ve mentioned this before, but Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is coming to Playstation and PC in March! Which sucks, because I have an X-Box 360. But then I also have a PC. So we’ll see! Still, the idea of a Doctor Who video game intrigues me.
So far the game looks to be a 2D platformer where you play as either The Doctor (Matthew Smith variety) or River Song, his on-again, off-again time-traveling future wife. You battle the usual aliens, possibly with a laser. Though as we all know, the Doctor doesn’t use weapons. So perhaps his levels will be clever puzzles. The game is fully voice-acted, but will the writing hold up?
I’ve only been a Whovian for about a year now, so I wonder if The Doctor will be able to translate well to an action game.
Check out the trailer!
TV Review: ‘The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe’
The great thing about the Steven Moffat-era Doctor Who Christmas specials is that they actually have something to do with Christmas. The earlier Russell T. Davies episodes only kind of took place on or near Christmas. Sure there were murderous Santa robots and Donna’s wedding reception was decorated for Christmas, but they lacked that special Christmas magic that Moffat captures so well as the show-runner. Not to mention the obvious homages to Christmas stories past. I already picked Moffat’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ episode as one of the best Christmas episodes ever on TV.
So it’s no surprise that the follow-up, ‘The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe’ is just as good!’
TV Rating: 4/5: Good!
What's in the box? Come and find out!
This episode contains a lot of the best parts of the Moffat and Smith-era Doctor Who. It’s whimsical, emotional and has some downright fantastic one-liners from the witty and banterish Doctor. It doesn’t reach the heights of the very best episodes, lacking in true character depth and badassery, but it’s still a very good episode. We even get a wonderful epilogue that ties the episode back into the regular series instead of just being a stand-alone Christmas episode. Paying homage to not just Narnia, but a lot of mystical, fictional realms, this episode has an adventure that is a lot like typical Doctor Who episodes. We’ve got a strange alien world, a ‘villain’ who isn’t what they initially seem and a death-defying race through time!
Plus the family element really grounds the episode and forms its emotional core. This wouldn’t be Doctor Who if we didn’t have one of those.
Follow me after the jump for a synopsis and more review of one very awesome Christmas special. And of course: Spoilers!
No seriously, full spoilers.
6 TV Shows with Great Christmas Episodes
Everybody loves a good Christmas special, especially me. Whether its the old-fashioned classics, like Rudolph or Charlie Brown, or maybe it’s newer movies that are particularly awesome, like Elf. Christmas has always been solid creative fodder for some really great entertainment. The combination of cheerfulness, the Christmas Spirit and some awesome characters and mythology makes for good storytelling.
All I want for Christmas...is this.
Nowadays, we don’t get a lot of those standalone Christmas specials, like Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or that one where Santa Claus teachers the Winter Warlock to walk again. Don’t pretend you don’t know the words.
Instead we get Christmas episodes of our favorite TV shows! Here are 6 TV Shows that have Great Christmas Episodes.
A Doctor Who Christmas
So I’m busy putting together a list of my 6 favorite TV show Christmas episodes. It won’t be done today, so to hold you over, enjoy this new trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas special coming out later this month. It’s a tiny morsel, but perhaps you’ll enjoy it. Maybe some good comic book news will break later today.
It’s also an excuse to finally post this picture I found online of all 11 Doctors drawn like the Whos from Whoville, the tall and the small.
Can you name them all?
Merry Christmas, Doctor Who
Back in the middle of all my Multiple Man grieving, I failed to note the announcement of this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special. I’m sure everybody could have heard the news a million other ways, but I want to mention it anyway. And here it is: Doctor Who is going to have another Christmas special, yay!
Why is that a big deal, you ask? Well, Doctor Who has a tradition of making their Christmas episodes a big deal. They occur outside of the normal season order, but at the same time they are still very important (and often times awesome) episodes. I never saw any of the pre-2005 reboot Christmas specials, but the new series has had some good ones.
The first was an alien invasion that introduced new actor David Tennant. There was the one that introduced Donna Noble, my favorite companion, a full year or so before she’d become a series regular. Then there was the Christmas episode about the Space Titanic.
One of the best was current Doctor Matt Smith’s first Christmas episode. He had to convince a miserly old man to be kind to others in order to save the Doctor’s friends. But the old man wouldn’t budge. So the Doctor went back in time to when the old man was a child and started visiting him every Christmas, having adventures together, in order to warm the man’s heart. Brilliant episode.
Well here’s the trailer for this year’s Christmas special, called The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe:
And here is the official blurb:
It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home, in this year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special, starring Matt Smith as the Doctor.
He promises to repay her kindness – all she has to do is make a wish.
Three years later, a devastated Madge escapes war-torn London with her two children for a dilapidated house in Dorset. She is crippled with grief at the news her husband has been lost over the channel, but determined to give Lily and Cyril the best Christmas ever.
The Arwells are surprised to be greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world. Here, Madge will learn how to be braver than she ever thought possible. And that wishes can come true…
So I have no idea what to expect…Should be good though!
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