The Zygon Inversion is one possibility out of many which might or might not come about in an episode which tied itself in knots more than a few times. Clara’s world is all upside down. …
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The Zygon Invasion – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 7 – The DVDfever Review
The Zygon Invasion saw the Zygons… er… invade, returning after 2013’s 50th anniversary episode, The Day Of The Doctor, and forty years after their first appearance in 1975’s Terror of the Zygons. “Once upon a …
Continue readingThe Witch’s Familiar – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2 – The DVDfever Review
The Witch’s Familiar is the second episode in Series 9, and I was so hoping for a return to form, of sorts, after the disappointment of the much-hyped series opener, The Magician’s Apprentice. Did it …
Continue readingThe Magician’s Apprentice – Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 1 – The DVDfever Review
The Magician’s Apprentice is the first episode in Series 9 (if you’re only counting new series since 2005) and apparently the preview reviews had said it was amazing. Well, all the mainstream reviewers of the …
Continue readingDeath In Heaven – Doctor Who: Series 8 Episode 12 – The DVDfever Review
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 …
Continue readingDark 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 …
Continue readingMummy 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 …
Continue readingKill 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 …
Continue readingTime 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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