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Doctor Who: Full Speed Backwards

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Doctor Who: Flux is Off to a Rocky Start

By Jef Rouner
Nov 1, 2021

One thing that cannot be taken away from the Chris Chibnall era of Doctor Who is a willingness to heavily experiment with the format. From a season with all new monsters to the first full-time four-person Tardis crews since the ‘80s to a focus on historical episodes that honestly hasn’t...
Make Doctor Who Weird Again

By Jef Rouner
Sep 7, 2021

I don’t want to write a post-mortem on Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall’s time just yet. We have one (short) season left and a trio of specials after that. However, the Chibnall era has been plagued by one sin that I deeply hope the next person on the helm doesn’t...
Jodie Whittaker Only Got 74 Percent as Much Doctor Who

By Jef Rouner
Aug 2, 2021

Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to play the lead in Doctor Who, has announced that she will be stepping down after the upcoming thirteenth season of six episodes and three specials leading to a finale next fall. The announcement also gave us our final episode count for the Thirteenth Doctor,...
Loki is the Doctor Who Gallifrey Story I Always Wanted

By Jef Rouner
Jun 15, 2021

The latest Marvel series Loki is, well, marvelous. Like WandaVision, it’s less about flashy superheroics and more of a character study of one the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most nuanced villains as he transforms into anti-hero. It’s also exactly what I’ve been hoping to see in Doctor Who for more than...
Doctor Who: Daleks in the Mirror

By Jef Rouner
Jan 4, 2021

Much like zombies in the horror genre, Daleks have long been used in Doctor Who to explore the worst aspects of humanity. The original William Hartnell serial of 1963 was a deep, terrifying exploration of where the nuclear arms race might land us if carried out to its ultimate conclusion...
Doctor Who: The End to a Very Frustrating Season

By Jef Rouner
Mar 2, 2020

Spoilers Ahead There’s a moment in “The Timeless Children” when The Doctor basically launches a DDoS attack on the server in Gallifrey that contains all Time Lord knowledge, using her own mind to over-stimulate and break the server in order to escape. The Doctor is left lying unconscious on the...
I Already Hate the Doctor Who VR Game

By Jef Rouner
Nov 12, 2019

After weeks of speculation that Doctor Who fans might get a surprise Christmas special or at least a trailer for Series 12 (Season 38), instead we got something quite a bit different. It was a look at a new Doctor Who virtual reality video game called the Edge of Time!...
Doctor Who: The Talking Frog Was Perfect

By Jef Rouner
Dec 5, 2018

Warning: Massive spoilers for “It Takes You Away” Just to give all the folks who might have clicked on this room to click away without seeing spoilers, here’s a terrible joke. Q. Knock knock A. Who’s there? Q. Tenth Doctor A. Tenth Doctor Who. Q. Knock knock I am not...
The Big Bad of Doctor Who Series 11 is Us

By Jef Rouner
Nov 23, 2018

Warning: This post contains mild spoilers for the season thus far. When Chris Chibnall started talking about Series 11 – his first season as showrunner and the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor – he made it clear that there would be no returning villains and that there...
Doctor Who: “Rosa” Is the Episode We Need Right Now

By Jef Rouner
Oct 22, 2018

When it was announced that Doctor Who would be traveling back to 1955 Montgomery, Alabama to meet Rosa Parks, there was cause for concern. Would the interventionist nature of the show remove the agency of the legendary civil rights activist in the name of a good story? Would the racism...
The New Doctor Who Is Big on Nostalgia

By Jef Rouner
Oct 8, 2018

One of the most surprising things about the first adventure of the first woman to assume the role of Doctor Who is how oddly backwards-looking it was. “The Woman Who Fell to Earth” is more than a clever title. Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor quite literally falls through the roof of...
5 Reasons to Already Love Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who

By Jef Rouner
Sep 11, 2018

We have a release date for Series 11 of Doctor Who. Jodie Whittaker will debut as the 13th and first female Doctor on Sunday, October 7 in the series premiere episode “The Woman Who Fell to Earth,” written by new showrunner Chris Chibnall and directed by Jamie Childs. In addition...
Doctor Who: In Defense of Three Companions

By Jef Rouner
Jul 26, 2018

San Diego Comic Con heralded a lot of tantalizing looks at Series 11 of Doctor Who and our new Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. In addition to the revamped sonic screwdriver, the trailers appear to confirm that we will have three full-time companions for the series, Mandip Gillas Yaz, Tosin Cole as...
The Caves is the Doctor Who Rock Opera You Didn’t Know You Needed

By Jef Rouner
Jul 3, 2018

I’m a fan of Trock (Time Lord Rock), but as much as I adore bands like Chameleon Circuit I am hard-pressed to think of any that I felt really transcended the genre into being something greater. That all changes with The Caves by Minneapolis-based The Sevateem. It’s not just an...
Top 10 Doctor Who Parody Videos

By Jef Rouner
May 14, 2018

With Season 11 still months away from airing and my budget for Big Finish audio stories all tapped out, I’m forced to look elsewhere for my Doctor Who fix. Today, we’ll be taking a look at some of the best parody videos out there in the world. If you can’t...
The Perfect Doctor Who Story for the Age of Trump

By Jef Rouner
Apr 19, 2018

Warning: major plot spoilers ahead As I’m writing this, the weird alternate dimension that we currently inhabit is continuing to get more and more surreal in year two of the Donald Trump administration. Rassilon only knows what shenanigans will have happened by the time this piece actually runs, but recently...
7 Things About Nazi and Edgelord Humor

By Jef Rouner
Feb 5, 2018

Yeah, you saw that right. Nazi humor on a Doctor Who page. A show that literally had an episode called “Let’s Kill Hitler” apparently still spawns fans and admins that think “blerp bloop gas chamber LOL.” What the hell these people get out of the show is a mystery to...
Doctor Who: 5 Best Christmas Specials

By Jef Rouner
Dec 25, 2017

Even on years when Whovians don’t get a full new series of Doctor Who, we get a special episode at Christmas. Christmas and The Doctor have been linked from the very beginning of the show. The first thing on my “winning the lottery” list is the various Christmas short stories...
Doctor Who: The 10 Essential Capaldi Adventures

By Jef Rouner
Nov 1, 2017

See you at Christmas.
The Beauty of Doctor Who Reaction Videos

By Jef Rouner
Aug 4, 2017

Jesus might have asked us to pray in a closet, but most of us like to feel things in a group.

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