Who-ology| S02E00 The Christmas Invasion
Season 2 opens with the TARDIS crash-landing in Cardiff to the horror of Jackie Tyler and Mickey Smith. Out of it stumbles an unfamiliar and incoherent man wearing the familiar black trousers, knitted v-neck and leather jumper of the Doctor.…
Who·ology #013 – S09E01 The Magician’s Apprentice and Over Indulgence
Welcome Whovians, to the new incarnation of Who·ology here on Reel World Theology. Unlike the return of Missy to this season of Doctor Who, we have reasons for the regeneration of this weekly feature from podcast to written review, but…
Who-ology| S01E11 Bad Wolf & E12 The Parting of the Ways (Pt.2)
A Eulogy for Nine: by Rose Tyler At the start, I didn’t know he would change me. I didn’t know I needed him to. I guess I knew deep down that I needed something–that feeling you get once in a…
Who-ology| S01E11 Bad Wolf & E12 The Parting of the Ways (Pt.1)
From moment one, this two-part story is a thunderstorm that only grows darker as the episodes unfold. We open on our 3 heroes being suddenly, mysteriously, involuntarily transported into separate live-action television shows that all end with human beings…”evicted from…
Who-ology| S01E11 Boom Town
“Boom Town” starts right out of the gate with an airy, carefree, light-hearted tone. In the way, we enter the story in medias res with Rose, Jack, and the Doctor as they land in Cardiff. We watch them laugh at inside…
Who-ology| S01E09 The Empty Child & E10 The Doctor Dances
This two-episode adventure is Moffat’s first real foray into writing for Doctor Who, after his highly respected WHO-parody called “The Curse of Fatal Death” which aired in 1999. These episodes, like much of Moffat’s writing, are full of delicious lines, and…
Who-ology| S01E08 Father’s Day
In previous episode “The Long Game,” we watched as the Doctor rejected one-off companion Adam for taking self-serving advantage of the Doctor’s invitation into time and space. The episode ended with the Doctor openly praising Rose, declaring that he “only travels with…
Who-ology: S01E07 The Long Game
“The Long Game,” written by Russell T Davies and directed by Brian Grant, takes the Doctor, Rose, and newly-acquired companion Adam (episode 6: Dalek) to Satellite 5, a space station in the year 200,000 that broadcasts news across the entire…
Who·ology #012 – S08E12 & Season 8 Review
The time has come where we wrap up the season by talking about “Death in Heaven” and then turn our attention to the season as a whole. What did we see in the final confrontation between Missy and the Doctor…
Who·ology #011 – S08E11 Dark Water
The End is Nigh! Part one of the two part finale is in the books and we can’t decide if it is terrible or really good. That, though, is the nature of two part episodes. We will be able to…