Death In Heaven starts with Clara outsmarting a Cyberman, by trying some psychology that only a human could be perplexed by, and somehow this confuses the metal muppet, and then we’re all confused when she …
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Dark Water – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 11 – The DVDfever Review
Dark Water was prefaced with the irony of one of the BBC’s continuity announcers, from Red Bee Media, stating that everyone should shut up(!) It also filled me with dread when the director was revealed …
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Flatline – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 9 – The DVDfever Review
Flatline finds the Doctor and Clara having to step out of a TARDIS which has made the blue box about 50% of its original size. With Clara wanting to get back to her classroom, and …
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Mummy on the Orient Express – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 8 – The DVDfever Review
Mummy on the Orient Express puts us on a recreation of said train – except slightly bigger, where the rails are hyperspace ribbons, and it’s in space – and Clara immediately says “It’s a good …
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Kill The Moon – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 7 plus screenshots – The DVDfever Review
Kill The Moon finds Clara and the annoying Courtney Woods, from last week’s dreadful The Caretaker, stuck on the moon, with The Doctor having long gone. Oh, and the year is 2049. Oh course, that’s …
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The Caretaker – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 6 – The DVDfever Review
The Caretaker starts with the Doctor and Clara being held prisoner on an alien planet, and they can’t break themselves free because Clara doesn’t have the vibro-cutters. Where are they? “In my other jacket”, Clara …
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Time Heist – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 5 – The DVDfever Review
Time Heist finds the TARDIS’ phone ringing. Very few people have his number, and “nothing can happen just by answering the phone”, but he does so, and something does happen, and both he and Clara …
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Listen – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 4 – The DVDfever Review
Listen comes hot on the heels of the dreadful Robot of Sherwood, and a return to Steven Moffat writing the episode, meaning there’s high expectations for Peter Capaldi‘s Doctor to deliver the “darkness” he promised …
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Robot of Sherwood – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 3 – The DVDfever Review
Robot of Sherwood is the Robin Hood episode which, when I saw the trailer, filled my heart with dread because it looked about as far removed from Peter Capaldi‘s Doctor’s promise of going “into darkness” …
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Into The Dalek – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
Into the Dalek begins with The Doctor picking up Journey Blue (Fresh Meat‘s Zawe Ashton) from her ship, Aristotle, just before it’s been destroyed, and in trying to help, he winds up in a hospital …
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