I always enjoy the Top 10 Doctor Who story list I do each year, I believe unlike the lists either side that It’s pretty unique to this site. 2023 was a tough year to fill out the bottom and middle because a lot of stories were “very good” but only three or so I actually gave a full 5 to. Interested in which ones landed where? Let’s take a look!
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Another year, another Top 10 TV series / seasons list! Although I’ve been enjoying Season 2 of What If…? It failed to make the cut, which makes this the first list since Disney + started that an MCU show hasn’t made it on here somewhere, which is a shame, but there you go. At least anime and Star Wars had me covered! Let’s take a look…
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It’s time for one of those rare (nowadays) marathons on this blog, this time counting down to the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary on November 23rd, where I’ll be putting up a list trying to rank all the Multi-Doctor stories, and much like when I did that with the Christmas stories a few years ago I’ll be reviewing all the Multi-Doctor stories I’ve yet to review on the site in the run up so the list can have review links on all the entries, rather than just the ones that I’ve happened to review over the last few years.
For the record I class a Multi-Doctor story as having to have at least two different incarnations of The Doctor in it (even if one or more of them are just mental images or digital constructs) and they have to actually communicate with each other in some way, even if only briefly. I’ll also be reviewing them in reverse release order as otherwise I’d start with classics like The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors and end with a rather flat run of Titan Comics stories.
They’ll be going up every day at 8:00am BST just like this announcement, that way I should have enough time to make sure everything is updated before I head to work most days, and if a regular review ends up going up it still can in the more common times of the day I tend to do those things without throwing multiple reviews at you at the same time…
See you tomorrow for the start of the aforementioned flat run of Titan comics! … Yay?
Hi all,
Just to give you a proper update, rather than a hastily written one I put out a few minutes ago, I’m back in the blogging mood after nearly three months off. During that time my Dad’s had five out of his six chemo sessions and is looking good despite it, and I’ve been back at full swing at work which is always busy this time of year, so I assume for those reasons I just haven’t felt like blogging, at least not enough to get any reviews out until the start of this week (or early last week, I guess).
I do have a lot of half written reviews of MCU Disney + shows, Doctor Who Big Finish releases and Star Wars High Republic comics that once I finish them off and get pictures done for them I’ll be retroactively posting in batches here and there (which will still appear in your inboxes as new posts even though I’ll be back-scheduling them so the newer, more currently-relevant posts can still stay at the top of the page) so if you see an odd number of reviews on the same topic pop into your inbox at once my apologies but if I post them one a weekday amongst the newer stuff I’ll never catch up and given I’ve already done most of the work I don’t want them to go to waste either, like there are some Big Finish releases I listened to but didn’t start a review on that will now just go by the wayside until however many years it’ll take for me to get back round to them, but the ones I’ve already pretty much done? I want to keep those.
So that’s it. I don’t know how long this burst of energy will last, maybe I’ll take some short breaks here and there, maybe I’ll do another longer break, who knows? I would like 2023 to be a year without something horrible happening to one of my parents, that might help my mental health, if nothing else…
See you around, and thanks for reading. Seeing some new comments and traffic holding steady despite the lack of new content has helped me along, I really appreciate it!
Hi all,
So after I left this blog a little while ago a lot has happened: my Dad did indeed have Prostate Cancer but it’s thankfully treatable via tablets and injections and not life-threatening, so a best scenario out of the admittedly all-bad list of scenarios relating to that news, so there’s that.
Secondly I’m moving to my own flat (or apartment if you wish!) on May 12th after many years back with my parents when my Mum’s health took a turn for the worst. My brother is still with my Dad so I’m not leaving him alone after having just been diagnosed with cancer, I just want to make that clear! Plus I’m literally 10 minutes away from there anyway…
As for the blog? Well, as you can imagine with everything going on, plus the up-coming Jubilee and the first full-on “Summer Reading Challenge” since pre-Covid my job at the Library will be very busy as well, so I’m not going to be uploading five reviews a week, that’s for sure! Instead I’m going back to how it all started: posting reviews up when I have the time to properly dedicate to write and post them. So some weeks there might be several, other weeks there might be none. This is the best way to go, going forward. The repeated Lockdowns and reduced foot-fall in the Library gave me ample chance to write lots and lots but that’s come to an end now.
Also I will be introducing a new format to my reviews after one of the only bits of feedback I’ve ever received mentioned not liking that the whole review was full of spoilers, so I’ll but changing the format to have the spoiler talk at the end of the review, after the score itself, for those who want to get a feel without getting spoiled.
So yeah, that’s it! I’m looking forward to posting a few things I’ve seen / listened to / playing with over the last while, starting next week…
Hi all,
So as some of you may know my Mum passed away back in July and it was hard to find my happy blog place for a while. Well, now not only is Mother’s Day this Sunday (for those of us in the UK anyway…) and that’s bumming me out, but my Dad got some troubling news in his MRI and is scheduled for a biopsy on Tuesday to gain more information.
Hopefully whatever it is can be cured with little risk to his life, but all I know is I’m really not in a happy blog place right now and I won’t be at least until that whole thing is behind me, or at the very least, is less scary.
So hopefully see you all soon!
David “Cold Cobra” Hogan.
Hello all,
I don’t do these non-review posts very often but I thought I’d get a few plans of features / regular reviews that will be coming to the blog this year (and most likely run into next year as some of them are LONG) First off despite a 9-6 job I have SOMEHOW kept up an accidental schedule of Random Review-Doctor Who-Random Review-Doctor Who-Anime on a Friday, and I do plan of keeping that going as often as I can but I’ll never say it will always been 100% that because new releases at awkward times, or there has to be some week where I fall behind on something, I’m convinced! Anyway, even though I kind of failed my goal for 2021 to promote the blog more often on social media and the like (and by “kind of” I mean pretty much totally) that’s fine, this place is just as much me enjoying myself and unwinding as it is anything else, I’m not looking for a “new career” where I start stick ads all over the place anyway. I’m happy with the small little bit of the internet I’ve carved and will continue to do so for hopefully many more years to come, Twitter and the like be damned.
With that being said click “more” below to find out what’s coming up soon and thanks for sticking with me as my blog enters year seven this April!
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Starting tonight and running all the way to Halloween itself I’ll be taking a look at all NINE Hammer Dracula films with each review going up at 7pm.
My usual Mon-Fri morning reviews that I’ve somehow kept up with will continue as normal throughout the week, so don’t fret if you have no interest in cheesy British B movies! Have fun and … *spooky noises* or something, I don’t know.
Hi all,
So yesterday was my Mum’s funeral, and while I’m not back to my old self just yet I do feel a lot better this morning. I’m hoping my reviewing mojo will return soon and certainly there are a few reviews that were half done before my life momentarily crumbled I should be able to finish.
Basically I just wanted to say that I’m on the way back up, just so my last post doesn’t hang around at the top of the blog any more…
See you all soon!
Hi everyone,
Due to my Mum’s sudden passing on Wednesday I’ll be temporarily stopping this blog until I can get back in the funny and enthusiastic review mood, whenever that’ll be.
Thanks for any kind thoughts and I’ll hopefully see you soon!
Hogan Reviews 