Who·ology – S10E02 Smile
“Smile. You’re in the belly of the beast.” – The Doctor Well Whovians, were you happy with our newest episode? Sorry, I couldn’t start the review with anything other than that question. Too easy. Whether you’re smiling or not after…
Who·ology – S10E01 The Pilot
“Time is a structure relative to ourselves. Time is the space made by our lives, where we stand together forever. Time and relative dimension in space. It means life.” – The Doctor The Doctor as a professor at a university…
Who-ology: Season 10 Preview
Whovians rejoice! That oh, so comforting whirr of the Tardis engine is kicking into gear again as season 10 is finally upon us. Give yourself a pat on the back for surviving the long wait. You deserve it. After all,…
Who-ology| S03E03 Gridlock
This episode has long been one of my favorites, certainly of season 3, possibly of all Doctor Who. There are so many threads worth following in this thematically rich story: kidnapping, drug addiction, terrible consequences of the human propensity towards excess, repentance and…
Who-ology| S03E02 The Shakespeare Code
This episode is all about the power of words. And who better to feature in a language-focused story than the generally-lauded King of the Written Word, William Shakespeare! “By the pricking of my thumb / Something wicked this way comes”: Also appropriate is…
Mad Man in a Box: Doctor Who, Part II
A tragic lonely alien – we dive back into our investigation of Doctor Who.
Never Cruel or Cowardly: Doctor Who, Part I
An anachronistic healer with a daft scarf – we finally tackle Doctor Who!
Who-ology| S03E01 Smith and Jones
In this second episode of the new season, the Doctor finds himself in a hospital that is displaced to the moon by the Judoon. These rhino-looking alien creatures are “police for hire” who have taken the hospital to “neutral territory” in order to…
Who-ology| S03E00 The Runaway Bride
“The Runaway Bride”—a Christmas episode—follows immediately on the heels of the season 2 finale: just after losing Rose, the Doctor is thrown into a new adventure. He doesn’t seek it out. It appears right in front of him in the…
Who-ology| S02E13 Doomsday
As noted in last month’s Who-ology, the Christian narrative starts with the distortion of truth in the Garden of Eden: with good being called evil, and light being called darkness (Isaiah 5:20, Genesis 3:4,5). That is the beginning of the…