May 2011
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Doctor Who Series 6 - The Almost People
Misdirection - a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract its attention from another. There’s nothing I love more in fiction than a good plot twist, something that forces you to re-evaluate everything that came before it, and makes you see that what you thought was happening was actually something else. From The Mayor of...
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Doctor Who Series 6 - The Rebel Flesh
(WARNING: Contains spoiler for the film Moon)
Running through corridors, steam-bursting valves, monstered-up guest stars, questionable moralising, if any episode comes close to traditional Who, then The Rebel Flesh is it. But along with that traditional feel also comes predictability, dodgy performances, and bad dialogue. That’s not to say that there weren’t parts of the episode I...
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Doctor Who Series 6 - The Doctor's Wife
When we think of the greatest love stories ever told, those that come to mind are Romeo and Juliet, Cathy and Heathcliff, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth, but we often forget about one of the strongest and longest relationships ever known, at least in the realm of sci-fi, and that is the Doctor and the TARDIS.
The Doctor’s Wife was a celebration of the bond between Doctor and TARDIS, a...
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Can Boston Rob Finally Win Survivor?
“I wanna win Survivor. This is something I’ve been trying to do for ten years now.”
Other than “What in the hell ever happened to Colleen Haskell?”, the most important question when it comes to Survivor is “Is Boston Rob capable of winning the game?” And this Sunday we find out, as Rob Mariano heads in to the Redemption Island finale as the clear...
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Doctor Who Series 6 - The Curse of the Black Spot
Doctor Who has a tradition of making pseudo-historical episodes, in which the Doctor travels back to a significant point in history, and often meets someone famous from that era, learns about them, and then helps them out. It has been an important element of the show since the original incarnation, as evidenced by episodes such as Marco Polo, The Aztecs, and The Highlanders. And this...
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Tyler the Creator - Goblin Review
If you haven’t heard of Odd Future up until this point then you must have been living under a rock, no scratch that, you must have been living under a mountain glacier. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are internet hype-machines, a bunch of angrily enthusiastic teenagers screaming “SWAG!” at your granny, kick-flipping skateboards at authority figures, and body-bagging anybody...
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Doctor Who Series 6 - The Day of the Moon
One small step for man, one giant leap for mainstream television. Just as the 1969 moon landing was a monumental occasion in human history, this week’s episode of Doctor Who was a momentous occasion in television history, on a smaller scale perhaps, but important nonetheless. At the climax of The Day of the Moon all I could say was “wow”. Not only had we just witnessed a...
