Author Archives: Ed Watkinson
REVIEW – TIME IN OFFICE
This is a bit of an odd one, and do you know I really cannot decide if it is odd good or odd bad or just plain odd, its a puzzler. First of all the tone – the Davison era … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE NIGHT WITCHES
Long time readers may remember that I lament the loss of the “pure historical” – and while I enjoy the pseudo historical and celebrity historical nothing really matches the drama of the pure historical from the first couple of Hartnell … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE THIEF WHO STOLE TIME
When we left Romana (Lalla Ward) last month she was abandoned on the surface of the planet Funderell, abandoned by her erstwhile classmate Sartia (Joannah Tinsey) and left to die. It was the shock at the end of a rather … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE SILURIAN CANDIDATE
If I were to say that Warriors of the Deep was not the most popular story in the world then there would not be too many of you who disagreed with me. So WHAT ON EARTH was the pitch meeting … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE BRITISH INVASION
If I were to pick two words to describe the Troughton era those words would be “charm” and “Whimsy” and this months Short Trips release “The British Invasion” has both charm and whimsy in abundance, its as if writer Ian … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE PRISONER VOLUME 02
How to start? I was going to start with one of my semi regular musical interludes but that won’t work any more (thats not to say there WON’T be a musical interlude) But no, the song I had selected is … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE THIRD DOCTOR ADVENTURES VOLUME 3
I will start at the end and work backwards. Maybe. But just to begin by saying that these stories are VERY Pertwee – they drip nostalgia for about 1973 and could easily slot in to season ten just after Planet … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE SKIN OF THE SLEEK
And so we reach the beginning of the end of another series of Fourth Doctor adventures and as is the tradition it is a two part story beginning with this months “The Skin of the Sleek” and finishing off next … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE BLOOD FURNACE
Only in Doctor Who could you get a story that begins with the gritty Scouse social realism of if not The Boys from the Blackstuff then definitely Brookside and ends with a battle involving intergalactic wizards using blood control and … Continue reading
REVIEW – TORCHWOOD: ALIENS AMONG US VOLUME 1
It is very very difficult to review this without giving away absolutely ENORMOUS spoilers, so forgive me please if my usual rambling flowery style becomes a deeper shade of vague rambling flowery style…. There is something wrong, something not quite … Continue reading
REVIEW – TORCHWOOD: THE DYING ROOM
And here I am, after what feels like an eternity (although it was only four weeks) back in my newly refurbished kitchen – as long time readers will know this is my reviewing position of choice. So firmly ensconced in … Continue reading
REVIEW – CLASSIC DOCTORS, NEW MONSTERS VOLUME 2
There are those who see Doctor Who as two distinct entities with only a shared title in common – Classic Who & Nu Who and never the twain shall meet. There are others (myself included) who see Doctor Who as … Continue reading
REVIEW – DARK SHADOWS: LOVE LIVES ON
When I think of Dark Shadows, I don’t think of Horror in the conventional sense, its more than that – yes it has Vampires and Witches and Werewolves and a creepy house and secrets and blood and gore and it does have … Continue reading
REVIEW – FLASHPOINT
So there I was on Thursday night about to write my review of Flashpoint when Kitchen disaster took place, or more accurately Kitchen clearance took place, no table, no chair, no place to write my review in my usual Kitchen … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE MOVELLAN GRAVE
I have decided to rename series six of the Fourth Doctor Adventures. Well not quite the series but the season it is ostensibly set in. It may have the theme music of season 18 but thematically it feels a lot … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE HIGH PRICE OF PARKING
Now don’t all run away when I say the next line. Promise you wont? You all trust me don’t you? – OK here I go “Season 24”…….. Tumbleweed. People walking away, disdain from my fellow Whovians – that is the … Continue reading
REVIEW – THE OFFICE OF NEVER WAS
We’ve all seen them but perhaps not noticed them, large glass and chrome monoliths, or drab grey concrete buildings lacking joy and empathy, bland corporate logos above the shining glass doors, staff packed in like battery hens as they try … Continue reading
REVIEW – HOW TO WIN PLANETS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE
“memo: to the board of the Darkon Corporation re; recent events regarding “The Monk” and his suitability as our strategic invasion planner Its not gone very well has it? foiled at every turn by that mysterious traveller in time and … Continue reading
REVIEW – PATHFINDER LEGENDS – CURSE OF THE CRIMSON THRONE – CROWN OF FANGS
So here we are, six months and approximately twelve hours of drama later and the end is upon us. We have followed our heroes from the court of Korvosa through desert to haunted fortresses in their quest – and now, … Continue reading
REVIEW – SURVIVORS SERIES 6
Things move on, people rebuild, the world starts again. This is where we find ourselves at the beginning of Survivors Series 6. It sees the world two years on from the pandemic that killed 99% of the population – links … Continue reading