Trailer of the Week: The Animated Adventures of Doctor Who

I'm fairly certain that Jenna Coleman doesn't really look like that.

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Twice Upon a Time”

The First Doctor met the Twelfth Doctor after which the Thirteenth Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker) was introduced. (For some reason, I keep wanting to call her Jodie Watley but that, no doubt, is just the aftereffect of having listened to too much 1980s music.) Unfortunately, Ms. Whittaker didn't get much to say in this episode but she should have more to say in future ones.

That said, it was good to see actress Pearl Mackie again even though this seemed to be her last appearance on the show. For that matter, it was good to see Peter Capaldi again that his character has shed all his House-isms.

In any event, I'm guessing we should not take the episode's cliffhanger ending too literally unless it was the producer's way of telling the audience that they changed their mind about Ms. Whittaker. But I really doubt that was the case.

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “The Pilot”

Geez, to listen to some people's reactions to this episode, one would think that biracial lesbians traveled with the Doctor all the time. If so, they really need to show those episodes because I always thought that Bill Potts was the first one to do so.

Anyway, ten or twenty years ago, this episode would have had audience members gnashing their teeth. Now it barely merits a yawn. So I should consider that progress?

Oh, well. At least Steven Moffat hasn't forgotten that dark-skinned girls like to have adventures too.

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Flatline”

Wow! How often do you see a TV show or movie nowadays in which the good guys win not by using guns or knives or fists or explosives but by using superior artistic ability?

Plus the show's writers have apparently discovered that the best way to make the Doctor seem likeable is to place him in the same episode as a character who is even more unlikable than he is. Too bad they can't do that every week.

However, I will give the show additional props for giving the Doctor a good speech towards the end.

TV Quote of the Week

Like sewage and smartphones and Donald Trump, some things are just inevitable.
--Peter Capaldi, Doctor Who (The Second Series), “The Doctor Falls”

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Kill the Moon”

Well, I always wanted to see a Doctor Who episode with Mexicans in it. However, after seeing this episode, it seemed quite obvious that I should have been more specific.

On the plus side, we got a surprisingly convincing picture of a post-NASA world in which a would-be astronaut finally got to fulfill her lifelong dream of travelling to the Moon, only to find out she had to blow it up.

The Doctor, fortunately, had a better idea but unfortunately, said idea was based on one of the most idiotic ideas about the Moon ever to be presented on TV. (Indeed, one would have to go back to the old Night Gallery episode "The Nature of the Enemy" to find a dumber idea.)

For that matter, this episode managed to come up with a surprisingly silly pro-life metaphor. I suppose my inner Catholic should be offended but that would mean taking the episode more seriously than it deserved to be. However, I would not be surprised to find out that the makers of this episode had to do some serious penance.

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): "The Caretaker"

It's official.

The Doctor is the new Greg House.

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Listen”

Oh, no! Steven Moffat is being haunted by the ghost of M. R. James!

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Robot of Sherwood”

Boy, I miss Bugs Bunny.

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Into the Dalek”

#NotAllDaleks#: Part II.

But seriously, folks...

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Doctor Who (The Second Series): “Deep Breath”

The new Doctor got swallowed by a dinosaur.

No, seriously.

Also, Vastra -- everyone's favorite lizard lady -- and her "wife" returned to help out the Doctor and Clara. It turned out that the Doctor had regenerated again and this time he had turned into Peter Capaldi. And Vastra had turned into Leo DiCaprio.

No, seriously.

Plus Clara got a phone call from Matt Smith who played the old Doctor.

No, seri--

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The Vicar of Dibley: "The Christmas Lunch Incident"

And you all probably thought that you all ate a lot of food this past Thanksgiving...

Please pity -- if you all will -- the poor Vicar of Dibley (played by Dawn French), who is forced through sheer politeness to eat not just one but three Christmas lunches. And not just a mere mouthful at each meal either.

On top of that, the poor Vicar runs into Peter Capaldi -- yes, the same guy who will later play the Doctor in a certain British sci-fi series -- and gets what she thinks is a marriage proposal. Alas, the proposal proves to be just part of yet another misunderstanding and the poor Vicar is given yet another reason to be miserable.

But don't worry. The villagers come round later in the episode to give the Vicar some much-needed Christmas cheer and everything ends happily. Sort of. Of course, it was the Vicar's very popularity with the villagers which caused much of her problems to begin with but alas, that is a subject for another day.