Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

This is the second part of the story that began with Silence In the Library and it’s easily the most exciting story of the season so far. No surprises there considering it’s written by Steven Moffat. The real question was could it sustain the brilliant opening episode?

Stepping away from the immediate cliffhanger, we follow Donna after she has been assimilated. It’s not an original concept, but it’s well executed. The…

Remember I said we hadn’t had any blow away brilliant episodes so far this season? Well Silence In The Library was written by Steven Moffat (soon to take the place of Russell T Davies as show runner for Doctor Who).

Right from the get go we’re given a library that supposedly exists in a girl’s mind. So how do the Doctor and Donna get there? Love the concept.

And it just gets…

So far this season of Doctor Who has been good, but without a blowaway brilliant episode. However a story set in the 1920s that features Agatha Christie had so much potential. The central conceit of the episode is that it is framed like an Agatha Christie murder mystery.

The Unicorn and The Wasp was written by Gareth Roberts who wrote a number of Doctor Who books while the show was off…

It’s been a while since I posted any Doctor Who news, so I thought I’d do a quick roundup of some of the latest events in the Time Lord’s world.

Well a little while ago it was revealed that Steven Moffat is set to replace Russell T. Davies as producer of the show when it returns for a full season in 2010. Good news as far as I’m concerned and it…

The title of this episode had me very worried, bringing to mind all sorts of horrible possibilities. Fortunately they were laid to rest in the first 30 seconds. No convoluted continuity explanations here. More along the lines of cloning.

It becomes obvious very early on that the war the Doctor stumbles into is somehow being staged. Less clear is how he ends up in the middle of it.

Got to say…