Doctor Who

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) I've only seen two of the specials so far, but there's this recurring theme about The Doctor not wanting to take on a new companion because of what happened in "Journey's End." Was Christopher Eccleston always only going to do it for a year?

By Alan Sepinwall(noreply@blogger.com) And it's not like the severed hand was only introduced a few episodes ago. It dates all the way back to "The Christmas Invasion," Tenant's first real appearance, and one the show has used for technobabble-y methods in the past. Beyond that, the severed hand led to the duplicate Doctor, which...

By Alan Sepinwall This was the annual Doctor-light episode, produced to accomodate filming of the Christmas special. I like last year's edition, "Love and Monsters," a lot more than the fanbase at large seemed to, but this was several orders of magnitude better.

By Alan Sepinwall Good as Tennant was as John Smith in the last episode, he was even better tonight. As I mentioned last time, the premise of the Doctor assuming living another man's life without realizing his true nature wasn't entirely a new one on me. But the return to the original life has never been present...