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Doctor Who Returns to Remind Us We’re All Stories, in the End
Doctor Who is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone—and a new chance to deliver a story that’s also wildly malleable in quality. Doctor Who is about storymaking, but…
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Doctor Who Saved Its Biggest Gift for Itself
For a show that is often so optimistically forward-thinking—and where change is baked into its hearts—Doctor Who often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that…
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Oh, Doctor Who, We’re So Back
Human drama suffused with alien weirdness? A shotgun blast of emotional sincerity to sweep you away from barely coherent sci-fi technobabble? The power of love, specifically encapsulating queer love? David Tennant and Catherine Tate running around the place having the time of their lives? Do not adjust your clocks friends: it is indeed 2023 rather…
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Tales of the TARDIS Makes Doctor Who Feel Like Forever
“This song is ending,” the Tenth Doctor is told as he limps painfully back to the TARDIS to begin his regeneration in “The End of Time,” “but the story never ends.” It’s an incredibly Doctor Who thing that this poignancy is delivered by a choir-backed, tentacle-faced psychic alien with a glowing ball attached to said…