I sat with a newish client the other day. They were struggling with how to handle a professional relationship that had gone sour. Their former business partner seemed set on damaging my client’s business via targeted, malicious social media attacks. My client felt torn between the choices we all have when facing a bully. Give […]
Read more "Choosing Tesla"*****SPOILERS ABOUND-PROCEED WITH CAUTION***** Most of what I have to say about the wonderfulness that is Spyfall 1 & 2 has already been said…THE MASTER! GALLIFREY! GOGGLES! All of which made me happy. But, it’s the invitation into the heart of The Doctor really floats my boat. After Series 11 addressed some authentically important buisness […]
Read more "The Doctor Has Entered the Building…Finally"The Doctor has returned and (far less exciting) so have I. Everything about this Series of Doctor Who feels different. The new show runner, writers, directors, composers and costumer designer, even the lens and film, tell the story of the Doctor and her companions differently than it has been told before. In all ways possible, […]
Read more "Families Lost and Found"Lots of people fall in the final episode of Series 10: Missy falls to the ground and presumably dies; the Master falls as the elevator plunges down to the lower levels of the colony ship; Bill’s Cyberman body falls as Heather rescues her. In fact, the only person who doesn’t fall, in fact fights falling […]
Read more "The Doctor Falls…Not (S10E12)"At last! Bill in action! It’s about time Bill had some responsibility and agency. In this episode she does it all with a vengeance. Bill’s choice to put the Doctor’s needs over conventional wisdom (though she rightly planned on the Doctor eventually saving the world, as one does), reveals the powerful familial relationship between them. […]
Read more "Careful What You Fear (The Pyramid at the End of the World S10E8)"No surprise. Missy is in the vault. From Moffat’s interview with DWM, it sounds like we were all supposed to guess she was in there. And, again unsurprisingly, the vault serves as a device to thrust us into the Doctor’s and Bill’s next series of adventures. I so rarely guess correctly that I am happy […]
Read more "And She’s Back! (Extremis S10:E6)"Another Doctor Who treat, this time by one of my fav DW writers, Jamie Mathieson. This is an awesome roller coaster of an episode! I counted no less than three heart stopping moments in the first 10 minutes of Oxygen. My love for Doctor Who is unrelated to the fact that it rarely scares me […]
Read more "In-2-3-4 and Out-2-3-4 (Oxygen 10E5)"Knock Knock, the fourth story of Series 10, takes us to a proper haunted house and (while it could be argued that the BBC tried a little too hard with the binaural thing) I enjoyed it. There is no missing the definition this episode brings to the relationship between Bill and the Doctor. Bill is […]
Read more "Family First* (Knock Knock S10E4)"I’ve been thinking about the title of this episode. Most obviously, it refers to …well…ice. Yet, the ice isn’t thin at all, is it? In fact, it is so sturdy that a several ton elephant can take a stroll without it even cracking. If we think of “thin ice” as a metaphor for the potential […]
Read more "Walking with the Doctor (Thin Ice S10E3)"First, before I make an attempt to write something interesting and psychologically enlightening, may I have a moment of squee? (Please brace yourself for far too many exclamation points.) It is awesomely cool when a main character in an episode of Doctor Who has your name! I know that Heather was most likely named after […]
Read more "The Families We Make (The Pilot S10E1)"
Doctor Who: On The Couch 