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Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion Top Ten Olga Hughes November 2, 2015teven Moffat and Peter Harness’s The Zygon Invasion certainly had something to say. This is classic allegorical storytelling that strikes...
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Doctor Who: The Girl Who Died Top Ten Olga Hughes October 19, 2015No, no, not Vikings. I’m not in the mood for Vikings… Take that, sonic shades (although I am sure they...
Doctor Who: Before the Flood Top Ten Olga Hughes October 12, 2015…this is called “The Bootstrap Paradox”. Google it So there’s this man. He has a time machine. Up and down...
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Doctor Who: The Witch’s Familiar Top Ten Olga Hughes September 28, 2015Death is For Other People Dear Well, we certainly weren’t left in suspense wondering how Clara and Missy would get...
Doctor Who: The Magician’s Apprentice Top Ten Olga Hughes September 21, 2015 Continuity Be Damned Let’s stretch believability to its very extremities. The combination of Steven Moffat’s typically ambitious retcon and...
Doctor Who: For Series 9 Peter Capaldi Tries Patrick Troughton’s Trousers C S Hughes April 2, 2015Terry Pratchett will tell you that reality is not based on the paradoxical circularities, deus ex machinas and gooey-wooey, wibbly-wobbly...
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