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The most popular search terms: November-December 2009

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Question of the week: should there be Christmas specials?

16 December 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Probably the last question of the week this year, unless you all fancy another one next Tuesday, say. But to round off this year, I’m going to ask the unthinkable:

Should there even be Christmas specials?

Lots of shows do episodes set at Christmas (or Thanksgiving). However, scheduling being what it is, they can be delayed – so House‘s Christmas special ended up being shown in January last year IIRC. They also make less sense during re-runs, when they can be shown in any order. They can also be extremely lame or even offensive (think episodes where Jesus really does come down to make the world a better place – or does he?).

So to avoid these kinds of mix-ups and lamenesses, should writers steer clear of Christmas and other holiday-related episodes? Or is it all good fun and appropriate and only namby-pamby liberals would think otherwise?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.

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Review: Doctor Who – 127 – Castle of Fear

16 December 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

Castle of FearBig Finish seem to have a new plan: trilogies. We’ve had the Key2Time season followed by three Seventh Doctor stories. We’ve just had another trilogy – the jettisoning of Charley Pollard from the mainstream Doctor Who Big Finish universe, except in Companion Chronicles. There’s the forthcoming Seventh Doctor/Nazi scientist trilogy, which is going to be followed by the Sixth Doctor/Jamie trilogy which is going to be followed by the Fifth Doctor/Nyssa/Tegan/Turlough trilogy (well, it’s a two-parter so far, but…).

But for now, we have the Stockbridge trilogy. This sees the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa deal with events in Stockbridge’s past, present and future. Apparently, Stockbridge was big back in the DWM comic strip of the 1980s (I missed it somehow), so this kind of follows on. Joy.

Here, though, before we get ahead of ourselves, we have the fifth Doctor and Nyssa turn up in Stockbridge, 1899, to watch a mummers’ play. Despite being handed down word-for-word since the middle ages, somehow the Doctor, an Earl of Space and a Lord of Time, is included in the play’s storyline. How did that happen? Best go back in time and find out, hey?

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