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Doctor Who returns tonight

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Doctor Who begins its 7th season (or 33rd, depending on who's doing the counting) tonight. In preparation for this year's confrontations with Daleks, Dinosaurs and Weeping Angels (oh, my!), the Beeb has produced this webseries- entitled "Pond Life".

I will have my review of "Asylum of the Daleks" up as soon as possible after the US airing.

Pond Life, part 1

Pond Life, part 2

Pond Life, part 3

Pond Life, part 4

Pond Life, part 5

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Humanoids are Cheaper than Robots

Sounds like somebody on the Dr. Who writing team has been watching too much of the new Battlestar Galactica.

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Quick review, with spoilers

My quick review of last night's new Who episode, with SPOILERS.

I liked it, even though it was all Daleks and I am with you on that they've been over used lately. But tonight was a big twist and a new type of Dalek: humanoid ones. The three stars are each captured by a human that got them alone and suddenly grew a Dalek eye stalk out of their forehead and zapped them up to a big Dalek ship where the Doctor expects to do battle once again with his old foe, but all the Daleks instead basically beg him to "SAVE US." Turns out some asylum prison planet for holding all the Daleks who were too bat shit crazy insane violent for even the normal ones to be around were kept there and now they apparently were about to break the planet force field and escape. The Doc asked why they hadn't just killed them all instead of imprisoning them, like he would think would be normal for them, and they replied that their level of extreme violent emotions were just "too beautiful" to kill. So the group is beamed down to the prison planet where it turns out that a ship full of humans had crashed on recently, but due to the security nanobot swarm they were all now human Daleks now. Higgledy piggledy ensues, they run around a lot, things explode, and the Doctor saves the day at the end after some emotional confrontation with the leader human chick who thinks she's still human and not a Dalek too, and who of course sacrifices herself to save the others after she really comes to believe.

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It's About Time

The current seaosn should have just ended, not just getting ready to start. Of course, this isn't the first time the good Doctor has been undependable. Anyone remember the 5 episode "series 4.5" in 2010?

One lab accident away from being a supervillain! Bazinga!

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