Tag: Jo Martin

Doctor Who: Season 2/15/41, Episode 5 – The Story and the Engine

“You must tell a story, Doctor. You must feed it. It is always hungry.”

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“Why are Earth people so parochial?”, wondered the Fifth Doctor in 1982’s The Visitation. In fact, the accusation could just as easily have been levelled against the show itself in its original run. Obviously, there were practical and budgetary reasons why every alien invasion of Earth seemed to centre on South East England (“They’ve turned the whole of Bedfordshire into a gigantic mine area!”).

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Doctor Who: Season 12, Episode 5 – Fugitive of the Judoon

“I don’t think you are who you say you are – or even who you think you are.”

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Well, this season of Doctor Who suddenly got a LOT more interesting. Fugitive of the Judoon, like several of its characters, was a clever episode that was emphatically not what it seemed at first, and undoubtedly the most intriguing story since Chris Chibnall took over as showrunner. And while it’s no disrespect to him, this was in large part because of its deliberate echoes of the previous two showrunners, both of whom loomed large over the concepts, plots and characters appearing here. Continue reading “Doctor Who: Season 12, Episode 5 – Fugitive of the Judoon”