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The Game and How Toby Whithouse Lost It
This essay was kindly sponsored by my Patreon campaign. If you'd like to support coverage of Last Christmas, a January series of essays on Sherlock Season Three, and the future of this blog after the...
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The Advantage of my Antiquated TARDIS (Journey to the Center of the TARDIS)
I'll be honest, I don't have anything funny to say about this image.I was just scrolling through the Google Image Search for this episodeand thought "you know, that is pretty..."If you missed it, we...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (December 13th, 2014)
Describe what you want Doctor Who to be like in 2017. Who's in it? Who's making it? What is it trying to do?This is Philip Sandifer: Writer, currently featuring TARDIS Eruditorum and The Last War in...
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Now Just a Moment: The Doctors Revisited (Tom Baker)
That this should prove so difficult is in many ways revealing. First, we should start with what this isn't, which is an account of Tom Baker as the definitive Doctor. Satisfyingly, this isn't...
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An Unruly Torrent (The Last War in Albion Part 75: Violence and Versions)
This is the third of fifteen parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Nine, focusing on Alan Moore's work on V for Vendetta for Warrior (in effect, Books One and Two of the DC Comics collection). An...
View ArticleReviews (December 17th, 2014)
So, just reviews this week, because I want to open with music, as Seeming has a new album out called Silent DiscoVery, so let's start with that.It's a discipline worth maintaining, I increasingly feel,...
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The Green One and the Not-Green One (The Crimson Horror)
I don't know that I'd call it a crimson horror, really. Really, it'smore a rosy horror. Incarnadine horror at best.It’s May 4th, 2013. Daft Punk have gotten lucky and made it to number one. Calvin...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (December 20th, 2014)
What do you think is going to happen in Last Christmas?This is Philip Sandifer: Writer, currently featuring TARDIS Eruditorum and The Last War in Albion. I am currently working on: the secret Doctor...
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Some Mercury Left Over (Nightmare in Silver)
Figure Who Even Knows: Matt Smith's Doctor Who faces downhimself with a facial prosthesis in front of a menacing green screenprojection.This is an excerpt from a future chapter of The Last War in...
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The Breaker of Rules (The Last War in Albion Part 76: This Vicious Cabaret)
This is the fourth of fifteen parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Nine, focusing on Alan Moore's work on V for Vendetta for Warrior (in effect, Books One and Two of the DC Comics collection). An...
View ArticleComics Reviews (December 24th, 2014)
From worst to best, with everything something I willingly paid money for, if not wisely.Also, as I am now more aware of my Christmas schedule, my Last Christmas review should manage to go up sometime...
View ArticleLast Christmas Review
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View ArticleThe Second Annual "I Hope You Enjoy That E-Reader You Got For Christmas" Sale
Eruditorum will run tomorrow. Today, it's time for the now traditional time when I celebrate the fact that surely some of you got things you can read ebooks on yesterday, and thus might conceivably...
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Guest Post: The Impossible Girl
Caitlin Smith is, so far as I can tell, the world's leading expert on Clara Oswald. And yes, I'm counting Steven Moffat and Jenna Coleman. She's also, generally speaking, one of the most insightful and...
View ArticleSunday Pancaking (December 28th, 2014)
So, what'd you get for Christmas? (Was it an eReader? If so, I've got a sale on ebooks going on...)This is Philip Sandifer: Writer, currently featuring TARDIS Eruditorum and The Last War in Albion. I...
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Time Travel Is Always Possible In Dreams (The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang)
TARDIS ErootitorumIt’s June 19th, 2010. Shout is at number one with “Shout,” which lasts both weeks of this story. Kylie Minogue, Eminem, David Guetta, Lady Gaga, and Baddiel, Skinner, and Lightning...
View ArticleDoctor Who in 2014
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View ArticleComics Reviews (December 31st, 2014)
This will, at least, be quick.SHIELD #1Will probably get the second issue of this, as I'm a sucker for Ms. Marvel, but I have to say, making this a Marvel version of Brave and the Bold with Coulson as...
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Through Powdered Teeth (The Last War in Albion Part 77: Valerie)
Last War in Albion will now be running on Thursdays.This is the fifth of fifteen parts of The Last War in Albion Chapter Nine, focusing on Alan Moore's work on V for Vendetta for Warrior (in effect,...
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I. Oh.: The Doctors Revisited (Peter Davison)
The entire Doctors Revisited series takes a fundamental turn here, and largely not for the better. Where the Tom Baker episode merely brought in the actor who played the Doctor as one of its primary...
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