Now everyone else has had their say on Lie of the Land [note to self – it’s The Lie of the Land], I’ve decided too add my two penneth. For the first time this series, I liked the episode a lot more than I found fault. It’s not perfect, there are obvious holes, but it took…
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Thoughts ahead of The Lie of the Land
So, what do we know? Well, Bill seems to shoot the Doctor (didn’t River do that?) and Missy might be pulling her strings (a bit Witches Familiar?), meanwhile the Doctor has joined the enemy and gone a bit eccentric (presumably playing a long game). The trailers are scant, so what else do we know, and what…
Stuart Manning propaganda poster for Lie of the Land
Not only will we (I assume) get a poster from Stuart Manning this week for The Lie of the Land, but also a BBC commissioned poster used in their promotion. It’s the Monk’s propaganda poster to the left. Stuart at his best in my view! What’s more it looks good on my site with the red;-)…
Pyramid at the End of the World review
Again I’ve delayed reviewing a TV episode, and again it’s a reluctance to document exactly why I felt an episode didn’t work. At the highest (most abstract) I felt Pyramid at the End of the World was interesting, but beyond that it seemed a victory of style over substance. Harsh words, and possibly unfair, but bear…
The Secret History reviewed
Hooray! The main range has reached #200! This means the end of the Locum Doctors Trilogy and we (hope to) find out why various incarnations of the Doctor have popped back into their own past. This time the Fifth Doctor goes back to his earliest days and meets up with Steven Taylor and Vicki. This is also a…