This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid on 1st March 2019. If you liked it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Doctor Who: The Astrea Conspiracy Aphra Behn is sitting …
We’re a few weeks out from the end of Peter Capaldi’s first year as Doctor Who, as well as the show’s most ambitious and almost successful Christmas special to date. As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m more invested in the show than I have been for years and that’s entirely down to the change in perspective …
The 12th Doctor is in: Silhouette, The Blood Cell and The Crawling Terror
I used to play rugby. I’m 6’2 and built large with it so it was one of those things I never really had a choice about. Most of the time I accepted it with the sort of resignation that you learn fast in the UK School Physical Education system. Big kid? Shot put, maybe discus …
(Written just over a week ago, with no spoiler info so this is all flagrant speculation) Let’s play spot the Doctor Who plot arc! Specifically, just what the plan is for the increasingly interesting Danny Pink. Below are some of the major theories, with evidence for and against. Activate the Speculatron 5000!
So I’m now two episodes into the era of Unbelivably Grumpy Scottish Doctor and I’m having an awful lot of fun. Capaldi’s an effortlessly great actor and he’s already starting to find lots of nuances and interesting corners to his version of the Doctor. Even better, at this point in the season, there’s a real …
(This essay discusses the entire series in detail. Spoilers for every episode abound.) In 1966, something terrible makes contact with the British government. Something worse delivers twelve children to it. One escapes to a life of homelessness and mental illness, a life of misery and nightmares of a man in a long coat who promised …