Category Archives: TV Reviews

Television Review: Doctor Who Series 10

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Alex R. Howe

Doctor Who’s tenth series has just concluded (the new Doctor Who, that is), and I would be remiss if I did not mark it with a review here. All in all, this was a pretty good season. It wasn’t the … Continue reading →

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Television Review: The Expanse

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Alex R. Howe

Okay, so this is another review that got delayed, and there’s one more coming, but then I’ll be caught up. The Expanse is a new show on Syfy based on the series of novels of the same name by James … Continue reading →

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Television Review: Childhood’s End

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Alex R. Howe

So I’ve had a backlog of TV shows to watch that I’m finally catching up on, and I wanted to review a very special miniseries that Syfy ran last December: an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End. It was … Continue reading →

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How Many Seconds in Eternity?

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Alex R. Howe

There’s this wall of pure Azbantium. It’s 400 times harder than diamond and 20 feet thick. Once every few days*, the Doctor comes and punches it a few times. And when the Doctor punches his way all the way through … Continue reading →

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Retro Movie Review: The Star Wars Holiday Special

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Alex R. Howe

On November 17, 1978, back when Star Wars was only a single film, CBS aired a made-for-TV “movie” entitled the Star Wars Holiday Special. This movie was never rebroadcast and has never been officially released on video (except for a … Continue reading →

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Theology and Doctor Who

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Alex R. Howe

“How many seconds in eternity?” So this post is a little bit TV review, a little bit analysis, a little bit religious commentary, and a little bit blog recommendation. It’s complicated…or wibbly-wobby-timey-whimey, you might say. But Doctor Who tends to … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who Returns with a Bang

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Alex R. Howe

Doctor Who kicked off its “9th” series this weekend with “The Magician’s Apprentice”. I have just four words to say about that. Out. Of. The. Park. This episode was epic–easily Peter Capaldi’s best performance as our favorite time-traveling alien and … Continue reading →

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Fan Fiction Review: Star Trek Continues, Episodes 1-4

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Alex R. Howe

I wrote about Star Trek Continues two years ago. It aims to create new episodes of the original Star Trek series in a style as close to the original as possible. I consider Star Trek Continues to be the best … Continue reading →

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Television Review: Peter Capaldi as the Doctor

Posted on August 31, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

  Doctor Who is one of the most successful science fiction franchises of all time, with (currently) 802 episodes to date spanning more than fifty years, three successful spin-off series, nearly 200 audio dramas, and what looks like several hundred … Continue reading →

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Cosmos follow-up: Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Alex R. Howe

The recent Cosmos series has been a tour-de-force for science education and popularization, equal to the original. However, there is one aspect of both series that I have to take issue with, and that is the holding up of the … Continue reading →

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