‘Star Trek Vault’ book review
A book that claims to cover 40 years of the most popular science-fiction TV show that America has ever created needs to justify such a statement with an exhaustive volume.
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A book that claims to cover 40 years of the most popular science-fiction TV show that America has ever created needs to justify such a statement with an exhaustive volume.
The bridging between two different mediums could easily have not worked, yet the motion comic feels appropriately dramatic and pacy, and for this it must be applauded.
‘Oh that man,’ River Song says, wine glass in hand, the same old glint in her eye, ‘he’s always one step ahead of everyone.’ We all know who she’s talking about, of course, but she could just as easily be referring to the man who has led us on a stunning, season-long dance and left … >
We speculated last week that the run of superb stories in the second segment of Doctor Who’s 2011 series might be in jeopardy. Guess what? We were right.
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‘This is a good idea with bad possibilities,’ one of the principal characters in BBC Three’s new pre-apocalyptic drama The Fades announces at the beginning of this opening episode, and it’s a fair summing up.
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We were worried. We were scared that Steven Moffat had finally overreached himself and that ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’ might be as disappointing as the conclusion of the otherwise majestic ‘A Good Man Goes to War’. We were wrong. Picking up a few hazy summer months after that strangely numbing mid-series finale, a bombardment of instantly … >
New Doctor Who novel ‘Paradox Lost’ is a fine representation of the series’ recent fascination with the more puzzling consequences of time travel.
So, by now, the whole world (well, almost) has had the opportunity to gaze upon the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day, the fourth series of the Doctor Who spin-off from writer Russell T Davies.