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  • Doctor Who Review: 'Death In Heaven'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. Cybermen rise from long-sealed tombstones, ominous clouds loom over Earth’s surface, and the Doctor’s oldest nemesis the Master – now Mistress AKA “Missy” – reigns supreme. The Doctor sails high in the skies as Clara confronts multiple Cybermen on her own, and the…

  • New to Who: The Villains

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    Hello Whovians, and welcome back to ‘New to Who,’ where I, Hello McFly, will be your guide through Doctor Who. Halloween has come and gone, much like my love for confections and cobwebs, but before we ring the bells for a holly jolly holiday or mount the menorahs, I’m in the mood for one last…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Dark Water'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. Where do people go when they die – is it really the end-all be-all, or is it just another state of existence? The Doctor and Clara aim to find out by any means necessary, traveling to Who knows where seeking an answer. Yet…

  • New to Who: The Companions

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    Hello Whovians, and welcome back to ‘New to Who,’ where I, Hello McFly, will be your guide through Doctor Who. Being the last of your kind is a sobering concept to grasp, one the Doctor is unfortunately familiar with (well, until last Christmas, that is). For millennia he traveled the stars in his TARDIS, wandering the vast reaches…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'In the Forest of the Night'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review! Holy feral foliage, Batman – the world is encompassed by greenery that has seemingly sprung up overnight. When a school field trip goes from sleepover to survival, will the Doctor be able to save the world from destruction, and will Clara be able to…

  • New to Who: The Gadgets

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    Hello Whovians and welcome to ‘New to Who,’ where I, Hello McFly, will be your guide through Doctor Who. Every good sci-fi property has its fair share of technological wonders – Star Wars has lightsabers, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has the Electronic Thumb, and Men in Black has the Neuralizer. Yet no other show comes close to reaching both the…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Flatline'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review! A running gag is that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside – but what happens when it gets smaller on the outside? Much, much smaller? With the Doctor effectively out of commission being trapped in his tiny TARDIS, it’s up to Clara…

  • New to Who: The Doctor

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    Hello Whovians and welcome to ‘New to Who,’ where I, Hello McFly, will be your guide through Doctor Who. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the question – who is the Doctor, what does he gain from traveling across all of time and space, and why is he never ginger? The intricacies and complexities of the…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Mummy on the Orient Express'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. The Orient Express – a luxury train traversing the cosmos, where the elite wine and dine among the stars. It’s a shame when a party-crasher spoils the fun by killing off the passengers and crew one by one. Left adrift on the locomotive,…

  • New to Who: Doctor Who 101

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    Hello Whovians and welcome to ‘New to Who,’ where I, Hello McFly, will be your guide through Doctor Who. There’s a reason people refer to the show and its ensuing fandom as “the Whoniverse” – between the TV series, movies, books, comics, radio plays, podcasts, merchandise, and a plethora of fan-created material, it’s next to impossible…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Kill the Moon'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPS-devotees, and welcome back to another edition of the Doctor Who Review. The fate of the world or the fate of the moon – which would you decide? And are the two choices all they appear to be? The Doctor lands on a space shuttle on a mission to obliterate the Moon,…

  • New to Who – Doctor Who for Beginners

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    Hello Whovians new and old, and welcome to the first installment of ‘New to Who.’ Doctor Who is a cultural phenomenon, a show that spans across time and space – airing episodes since 1963 with more than thirty seasons and over seventy-five countries tuning in every week. Add to that the movies, specials, radio casts, books, comics, and paraphernalia…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'The Caretaker'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome to yet another edition of the Doctor Who Review. If you think bringing a boyfriend or girlfriend home to your parents was awkward, then you haven’t seen Clara’s juggling act, also known as her day-to-day life. Between time-and-space and dinner dates, she’s run ragged balancing adventure with romance. Keeping…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Time Heist'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. What do you do when you find yourself locked in a room with strangers and no memories of the past few days, and your only guidance came from a pre-recorded message instructing you to rob a bank? Stranger yet, what would you do if…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Listen'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. “Are we alone?” seems like a silly question to ask of a television show famous for its companions and ever-expanding cast of aliens. The real question is “Are we alone ever?” Why do people all have the same dream of not being alone, with…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Robot of Sherwood'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. The man, the myth, the legend – and no, I’m not talking about the Doctor! Clara’s childhood dreams come true upon meeting Robin Hood and his Merry Men to the Doctor’s disbelief. Yet even with this jovial band of misfits on the job,…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Into the Dalek'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome back to the Doctor Who Review. Our titular character has a crisis of faith – both for himself and one of his most sworn enemies. Meeting with insane hope and despair, the Doctor goes into “the most dangerous place in the universe” only to have his convictions shaken and…

  • Doctor Who Review: 'Deep Breath'

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    Hello Whovians and DAPs-devotees, and welcome to the first review of Doctor Who. There’s an all-new opening sequence, new storylines, and of course a new Doctor. What better place is there to start than the premiere of Doctor Who Season 8 Episode 1, ‘Deep Breath.’ Warning, spoilers ahead!  The Episode: The Doctor crash-lands in Victorian England…