Doctor Who – Phenixx Gaming

SDCC Doctor Who & Star Trek Rundown

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:00:53 +0000

With Nerd-mecca (San Diego Comic-Con) over with for another year, I think it is about time we give a “quick” rundown of two of the major franchises we cover a lot here at Phenixx Gaming. We don’t usually cover everything Star Trek and Doctor Who, I do have digestive biscuits to eat and coffee to drink after all, but I do cover both quite a lot. Let’s talk about the exciting and some not-so…

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Doctor Who “Empire of Death” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:00:52 +0000

It would be reductive to say that “Empire of Death” was another standard Russell finale, but all the big beats were there. No change with the production team though. Russell is of course doing the finale to his first series (I’ll fight you till you say it) back and Ben Chessell finishes off his work as started in part 1, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday.” An episode that saw the return of Sutekh…

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Doctor Who “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:00:40 +0000

Russell, you need to calm down, that’s just a Borg and that other one is just a Drow. Directed by a Doctor Who alum, we’ve got a return of Mark Tonderai, director of “Rosa” and “The Ghost Monument.” Otherwise, there isn’t much of a standout in Tonderai’s career: he directed an episode of 12 Monkeys (crap 2015 version), an episode from season 3 of Lucifer, and a couple of episodes of Gotham.

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Doctor Who “Rogue” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:00:24 +0000

The gayest episode of Doctor Who, literally. Directed by Australian director, Ben Chessell, he returns for only his second episode following “The Devil’s Chord.” Though “Rogue” is also the first episode not written by a former showrunner of Doctor Who this series, instead written by two people, the horror. Truth be told, I can’t find much on Briony Redman, written a thing here, acted there…

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Doctor Who “Dot and Bubble” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:00:20 +0000

Honestly, the world of Finetime looks like the gayest place in the universe, stereotypically. There are bright colors, young White men who are very conventionally attractive, and everyone is very happy, toxically so, but also catty. Still, we have the same director from last time, Dylan Holmes Williams and Russell is once again writing. There are no major changes to the production…

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Doctor Who “73 Yards” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 30 May 2024 17:00:41 +0000

Oh, so we can call people fairies now? I wish I knew that before. Directed by Dylan Holmes Williams and written by Russell T Davies, it is a very Welsh episode from two men with very Welsh names. Williams is probably best known for directing several episodes of an Apple TV show called Servant, starring small-known actors Rupert Grint, Toby Kebbell, and Lauren Ambrose. Davies is best known…

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Doctor Who “Boom” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:00:31 +0000

Is it offensive to say this one is a bottle-episode? Directed by Julie Anne Robinson, Robinson returns following “Space Babies;” She’s also known as the director of episodes 1 and 6 of a small show called Bridgerton, I’m sure it is a lovely little show. It also seems Russell found another new hire to write an episode, this time some young man named Steven Moffat. I’ve read up on the young lad…

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Doctor Who “The Devil’s Chord” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:00:37 +0000

I’ve been thinking, the first song from the Meet the Beatles album is probably one of the best songs to capture Doctor Who, especially from “Rose” onward. Directed this time by Ben Chessell, mostly known for things you’ve never heard of unless you are a fan of Australian/New Zealand comedy like I am because I am weird. Written once again by showrunner Russell T Davies – Yes, I did hold back…

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Doctor Who “Space Babies” – Review

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 14 May 2024 18:00:57 +0000

It’s not usual for me to be here on a Tuesday reviewing Doctor Who, but then again it isn’t usual for there to be a double bill before Eurovision. That happens to make May 11th, 2024 the gayest day in history. Directed by BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated director Julie Anne Robinson, she’s known for Holby City, Grey’s Anatomy, Pushing Daisies, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and the Miley Cyrus film…

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Steven Moffat Returns to Doctor Who

Keiran McEwen — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 14:00:24 +0000

Hold on, I need to engage my sarcasm for a moment: Wow, I am so surprised that this new and upcoming writer is finally getting a shot at his own episode. Announced yesterday while everyone was minding their own business and had moved on from the May 11th controversy, as if it wasn’t that big of a deal anyway, Steven Moffatt was announced to be returning for one more episode. I say one more episode…

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