******TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Actor Ncuti Gatwa blasted his way into Doctor Who lore following his pioneering ‘bi-generation’ from David Tennant‘s resurrected Doctor in “The Giggle,” the last of several Doctor Who specials from 2023. The returning Tennant’s three specials and Gatwa’s introduction marked the returns of producer Russell T. Davies, Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) and classic…
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BBC/Disney’s “Doctor Who”; a fourteenth series overview…
******TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!****** With new Disney money flowing into this 61-year old series, BBC’s “Doctor Who” just wrapped its 14th series/season—or 40th, if you’re a completist. A newly bi-generated Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) has a new (temporary) companion, Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson). Orphan Ruby’s arc was more or less completed at the end of the run. A…
Doctor Who Special #3: “The Giggle” wins the game…
After last week’s bizarre, creepy voyage to the end of spacetime (“Into the Wild Blue Yonder”) the third of three Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebration specials brings it home with the return of a classic Doctor Who villain (one not seen since the Hartnell era), a uniquely Doctor Who-style apocalypse, and of course, the introduction…
“The Power of the Doctor” relies heavily upon Doctor Who’s history and lore…
*****TARDIS-SIZED SPOILERS!!***** I just watched the latest Doctor Who special, “The Power of the Doctor,” and I’m not entirely sure what is that I just saw. I’m aware of a 90-minute story involving Daleks and CyberMasters (that name sounds like hi-tech exercise equipment) teaming up with the Master himself to activate all of Earth’s volcanoes…