MARK DAVISON

Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 11 – The God Complex: A Review

30th November -0001 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I should probably stop apologising for these episode reviews being late and just spend the time trying to get them done sooner shouldn't I?

It's particularly bad that I've been falling behind when it's been, for the most part, an excellent series this year (admittedly, it has caused the Guardian to run an article asking if the show's getting too complicated but, as the only bad episodes – the pirate-y one...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 10 – The Girl Who Waited: A Review

30th November -0001 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Well, that was a surprise. I already voiced my concerns about the trailer for this week's episode looking a bit uninspiringly action-heavy in the previous review, but I forgot to mention that the writer's sole previous credit on Doctor Who was for the season two Age of Steel two-parter – the storyline that well and truly turned the Cybermen from my choice of most creepy Doctor Who monster (seeing clips...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 9 – Night Terrors: A Review

5th September 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I went into this episode with decidedly mixed feelings – the new Who hasn't had the best track records when it comes to modern day domestic drama (remember Fear Her? And I'm not looking forward to the upcoming follow-up to last year's The Lodger), but I quite like Mark Gatiss, even if he was responsible for last year's Daleks-by-numbers episode. The line-up of guest actors didn't really inspire confidence either...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 8 – Let’s Kill Hitler: A Review

5th September 2011 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

This mid-season break has really thrown off my timing, hence the lateness of this review (in my defense I'm not one of those 'legitimate' TV critics who get to watch and write about this stuff in advance, I wish I was though as it would mean that I'd be getting paid for coming up with this nonsense). Although it did provide me with the opportunity to blog about a series...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 7 – A Good Man Goes to War: A Review

10th June 2011 | 7 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

So, that's it until September (I think). While the mid-season break may be a bit annoying, it does at least give me a chance to have a breather and catch up – as these reviews have been getting later and later. And, at least it was an interesting episode to go out on.

Interesting, but probably divisive, as it did involve Moffat taking his frantic storytelling style to a ridiculous extreme....

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 6 – The Almost People: A Review

2nd June 2011 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I suppose I'll have to take back some of the things I said about last week's episode then. In other words, I quite liked this week's one, even if it didn't use the opportunity to expand the story further. In fact the more I think about it, I can't actually remember that much in the way of plot developments (and I sat through the episode twice before starting to write...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 5 – The Rebel Flesh: A Review

27th May 2011 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I suppose, once again, I should start this blog with a couple of apologies. Firstly, despite encouraging you to join in the discussion in the comments section, it turns out that I didn't know how the system worked – so if you posted something there and it didn't turn up, I apologise (I think I'm on top of it now though and if I'm not commenting using the facebook account...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 4 – The Doctor’s Wife: A Review

19th May 2011 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Sorry for the delay in getting this up, unfortunately real life's got in the way a bit this week. Although part of the blame does lie with the episode itself as I did find that I had to watch it a couple of times before starting on this review. And even then, I still found myself struggling for words somewhat – mainly because I wanted to spare you all from...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 3 – The Curse of the Black Spot: A Review

10th May 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

After struggling to keep my gushing enthusiasm for last week's episode under control, I find myself with the opposite problem this time. Not that this week's was bad, it just wasn't really much of anything.

I don't think anybody was expecting it to be anything more than a filler episode (although with the series now being split into two shorter blocks of episodes, the presence of filler seems harder to forgive)...

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