Stargate: False Gods & True Myth
Happy 20th Birthday, #Stargate!
Oh! The Horror… | of Dissolution
Imagine for a second: an amorphous mass of gelatinous ooze engulfs a person and, just as they open their mouth to air their protests of fear, the pulsating form reaches out its bulbous tentacle and begins to slide down the…
Who-ology – S10E12 The Doctor Falls
The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor. Well, sort of. At the end of season 10 we’ve got a Doctor hanging on for one more ride, and a show we’ve gotten to know for over a decade about to…
They Won’t Let You Remember: Men in Black
We promise we’ve never flashy-thinged you. We can’t guarantee that the #MenInBlack haven’t.
Who·ology – S10E11 World Enough and Time
Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day. – Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress If we’re honest,…
Oh! The Horror… | of 2040: The Year of the First Female Mechanic
The second episode of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace finds its comedic locus in the obliviousness to the privilege that men have in society. Liz (played by the superb Alice Lowe) came to Darkplace as a new hire straight out of “Harvard…
Who·ology – S10E10 The Eaters of Light
So, that’s it. The Eaters of Light is the last episode of the Twelfth Doctor’s run that has a self-contained storyline. It was a solid entry, not without its holes, and one of the better of the current season. But…
Who·ology – S10E09 Empress of Mars
Put an ancient warrior race of crocodile-like beings on Mars with a Victorian-era army, a mummified queen about to wake, a Doctor, two companions, and a Tardis and what do you get? Turns out, surprisingly an underwhelming episode of television.…
Oh! The Horror… | of Slaughtered and Transformed Masculinity
Clearly Rambo (I refer to the general type) has his secure place in popular cinema. That place is not horror, however. If Rambo were to wander out of the action genre into a slasher film, he would end up dead.…
Who·ology – S10E08 The Lie of the Land
Last season in the episode “Face the Raven” the Doctor encountered what was called a “misdirection circuit.” This was created by alien creatures called lurkworms to hide trap streets from the minds of those passing by. The circuit was said…