Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Or shall I compare thee to something what the cat just dragged in?
Forsooth! It's celebrity historical time again! And following the visits to Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria, The Doctor decides to go further back in time to meet William Shakespeare, with an awestruck Martha in tow.
You know the drill by now. Somehow the famous face from the past gets embroiled in a fiendish alien plot to either kill lots of people off and/or take over the world. Maybe that's one of the reasons why The Shakespeare Code feels rather stale and lifeless. Doctor Who doesn't really work when it follows a set pattern, and yet in the 21st century stories, the order of the first few stories normally goes something like this: Present day action adventure; Historical romp; futuristic wonder (feel free to switch the order at any...
Or shall I compare thee to something what the cat just dragged in?
Forsooth! It's celebrity historical time again! And following the visits to Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria, The Doctor decides to go further back in time to meet William Shakespeare, with an awestruck Martha in tow.
You know the drill by now. Somehow the famous face from the past gets embroiled in a fiendish alien plot to either kill lots of people off and/or take over the world. Maybe that's one of the reasons why The Shakespeare Code feels rather stale and lifeless. Doctor Who doesn't really work when it follows a set pattern, and yet in the 21st century stories, the order of the first few stories normally goes something like this: Present day action adventure; Historical romp; futuristic wonder (feel free to switch the order at any...
- 6/25/2011
- Shadowlocked
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