The latest and final (for now!) Ninth Doctor boxset has arrived and unusually all three stories are connected by a recurring companion-like character, in this case River Song herself, ticking the Ninth Doctor off of her audio Doctor checklist (which is now pretty much complete!) The first two stories are good, showing a very different kind of relationship between the two, so let’s take a look.
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I’m not sure what’s weirder, putting up a review of a currently-airing series just five episodes in or the fact that those five episodes officially include two “story arcs”, but there you go. My Her Academia’s seventh season has kept its strong ties to the manga source material and got to the start of the final arc in record time, which at least means this review won’t take long to write! Let’s take a look…
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I normally don’t like putting reviews of two of the same thing in a row on the site, but it’s been a very busy week at work (as tends to happen in the summer, sadly…) so back-to-back new Who episodes it is! Rogue was a strange one, on the one hand I enjoyed The Doctor exploring a more romantic side to himself, but on the other hand the rest of the story was quite generic. Not bad, but felt very samey. Still, Ncuti Gatwa pulls the story up with his performance yet again! Let’s take a look…
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“Dot and Bubble” is a strange story to review. It starts off as a very on-the-nose look at modern society’s reliance on mobile phones and social media and then towards the end turns the spotlight on a much nastier and longer-lasting aspect of society instead in a really great last 10 minutes. Can the latter make up for the rest? Let’s take a look!
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When the chance to review a preview screening of a Chinese animated film came along I said… “Why not I guess!” Turns out thought that it was quite the visual treat. You can find my review by clicking HERE.
The third and final part of the Eighth Doctor “Echoes” boxset started off really good, it has an interesting world with a unique hook to it that I was interested in seeing how it played out, but sadly the ending was such a non-event that it kind of took all the wind out of my sails… Let’s take a look!
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The High Republic Phase III continues on, though admittedly much slower than the previous two phases (the wait for the next main book has felt like forever!) and with that comes “Shadows of Starlight”, a four issue comic series that basically fills in the gaps between the end of Phase I and “The Eye of Darkness”, the first book of Phase III (for those not in the know Phase II took place in the past…) It does manage this in a mostly satisfying way, even if reading it after reading the book meant a lot of the gaps had already been filled in by my mind’s eye anyway… Let’s take a look!
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As the end credits rolled on “73 Yards” all I could think was “this was written by the same guy who wrote Space Babies…?” Yes, this episode is something of a marvel, a really great and creepy story that is also one of RTD’s beloved “Doctor-lite” episodes he used to do. This season of Doctor Who is on a hell of a hot streak now, it makes me even more confused about what episode they chose to open it with! Let’s take a look…
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The next batch of older anime reviews was originally just going to be me finally re-watching and reviewing the original Evangelion series / film but between me planning that and now Hideaki Anno’s prior work, Gunbuster, was released on Blu-Ray here in the UK so I thought, why not? When it popped up in a recent Super Robot Wars game that featured the series I thought how some of the character designs were familiar but I didn’t remember much of anything else, so I assume it was one of those anime that aired in the late 90s / early 00s on the Sci-Fi channel that I watched but never recorded / rewatched, so I was looking forward to this! Was I right to look forward to it? Well…
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The latest Eighth Doctor audio boxset has arrived and its title of “Echoes” seems to be a reference to the fact that these two stories feel awfully similar to other Eight/Liv/Helen stories in the recent past. They’re both well written, don’t get me wrong, but I couldn’t shake a sense of… I don’t know, I don’t want to saw “boredom” because again, they’re good stories, but maybe “sameness” is the right word. Not just Doctor Who stories (obviously!) but other Helen and Liv stories specifically hitting some very familiar beats to the ones here. Well, let’s take a look anyway!
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