My review Of Dr Who Season 6 (part 1)

Hey folks I been writing this review since the abomination that was seaon 6 ended and while I wanted to wait on the judgement till the end I am unable to write this without having actual bile come up as I think on this season and what I can only imagine was a great idea(returning to the serial nature of the show) took a sinsiter life of its own and presented itself as this pile of trash.



This season was set up to payoff on last seasons "silience will fall" story and was treated to the best(its no awful after the payoff) season premire which I saw 2 weeks early at a BBCA event in the city. I was so fired up after seeing the dr killed and then swept into what was a season long mystery of how did this occur and how would he get out of it.A new villian was introduced(the now awful silence or whatever they are)This was puncuated by a cliffhanger of a little girl regenerating in the last scene. As you can imagine I was jacked up on finding out who this timelord was(answer was awful) and how it all tied together(it did not in anyway).that This was followed by the first half of the split season which consisted of them trying to make this the Amy pond and Rory show with the dr tagging along looking lost and powerless to stop anything. It seemed that they wanted us to see the dr as a irresponsible force of nature who thru the years created a myth that followed him around. This was done by alot of "the dr does etc" but no dr actully doing things. every episode in the first set were bad with the exception of the Dr wife. This was FANTASTIC a episode as I have ever seen when the tardis is given a voice which lead to alot of touching and funny moments which made me realize how hollow the rest of the season was. I figure it was then when The mid season finale was them relizing that Amy was a flesh avatar which tied into the silence subplot which was at the tiime still kind of interesting but not really. This is when I realized that this was not going to end well at all and had no hope for the future and even with that I was still dissappointed. I can,t do the full season right now I just cannot do it. The sheer amount of disgust I have is amazing even for me so I broke it up like they did.

Torchwood season 4 (Miracle day) Review

Hey the Season finale of Torchwoods 4th season came and went last week so here is my review of what started slow and lagged and ended ok enough. I will start by saying they turned the Captain Jack gay knob all the WAY up with 2 sex scenes one gratuitous(dude he picks up in a bar) the other very plot specific(guy who ends up having him mutilated). The story was something happens where people are unable to die which means that the system becomes taxed due to no one dying but people still being born. I do not want to get into the meat of this as its pretty dense and goes to some weird places. Long story short torchwood figures out through dragging shit out that Jacks immortal blood poured into holes in the earth which set the lifespan at forever. This was played out over 10 pretty dragged out episodes which ended pretty ok. My main issue with the end which is my issue with Dr Who is that the main plot devices(regeneration and jacks immortality) are being treated very blase and that is bothering me. Some devices should be protected and left alone as they are the linchpin of the whole series. I mean what does treating his immorality as something that can be passed around like a cheap flask of booze? The new people that were added to the team sucked especially the one dude who survived and is now immortal(see last sentence) he was insufferable. The benefits to the season was the fact that despite being on stars in the USA they saved some of the dour welsh aesthetic that Torchwood is known for. I also liked despite feeling like the story dragged in the middle the wrapped things up pretty swiftly and not many lose ends to feel cheated with. I hear they are going to do a season 5 which I am kind of hopeful figuring that they have a year of working with Starz and in the Usa giving them a good oppertunity to build on this years success.

Review of the first Half of season 6 of Dr Who

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Hey folks as you know I am a huge Doctor Who fan so much so that I almost rubber stamped this epic and kept it moving. I am not doing this however because there was HUGE holes that I cannot ignore. Knowing that they had a few episodes before they went off for the summer and you know we waited ninth months since the end of season 5 the episode selection was sub par in my opinion. When the season started It was all good one hundred million percent. Impossible astronaut/Day of the moon was fantastic feeling more like a Movie then episodes of a TV show. I truly enjoyed how much set up for the season was done making my anticipation for the series ramp up to a fever pace by the time the credits rolled. Then something sad happened "the curse of the black spot" come on and stopped everything with a useless episode. This thing was so banal and cheap that I was shocked that it was even made to be honest. This is the first time I took notice of Moffets things that are ever present being dangers(statues,reflections,12 foot aliens that erase themselves from your mind. Also the villain the pie faced Lily Cole turns out to be a space nurse and the pirate thing was grating.



Then like a gift from god himself "the doctors wife" came on and was so fantastic that I got mad at how bad last weeks episode was and how a week was wasted on crap. This story gave a nod to the History of Dr Who and had genuine heart from beginning to end. The only issue I had was over used "Rory is dead or dying" device which has me no longer caring one way or the other. The next episode was fine enough but having a second 2 part episode in a short season was stupid. Also This episode introduces a plot device(the use of fake flesh to create doubles) which was then used to create shitty tension over and over again until the end of the half season. The final episode was good as I enjoy a bad ass Doctor but it showed the full seasons hand and I am kind of left wanting more. I know that anything can happen with 6 full episodes to go but something tells me what we have is what we will end up with more or less. The cliffhanger was not hard to work out and is getting more and more annoying as time goes on. I dislike river song at this point and march closer to hate with every smug appearance. In conclusion this was not the worst thing ever and had some real bright spots but sadly the shitty pacing and curse of the black spot kept this from being great.