There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing, yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. ItContinue reading “Heaven Sent by Steven Moffat (2015)”
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Listen by Steven Moffat (2014)
Question. Why do we talk out loud when we know we’re alone? Conjecture. Because we know we’re not It could be with us every second and we would never know. How would you detect it, even sense it, except in those moments when, for no clear reason you choose to speak aloud? What would suchContinue reading “Listen by Steven Moffat (2014)”
Twice upon a Time by Steven Moffat (2017)
‘Oh, I don’t think so. No. Dear me, no. You may be a Doctor, but I am the Doctor. The original, you might say.’ Twice upon a time, is an episode that not one, but two showrunners didn’t really want to make. ‘World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls’ is so comprehensive an ending for theContinue reading “Twice upon a Time by Steven Moffat (2017)”
The Empty Child by Steven Moffat (2005)
A table for four at Chula – an introduction to ‘The Empty Child’ In February 2004, at an Indian restaurant in Hammersmith, four colleagues meet to chat and exchange notes. The restaurant is called ‘Chula’ and the people sat around the table are celebrating being asked to write for the new series of Doctor WhoContinue reading “The Empty Child by Steven Moffat (2005)”
World Enough and Time by Steven Moffat (2017)
What is in a name – To His Coy Mistress (with apologies to Andrew Marvell) Had we but world enough and time… Whilst writing the review of the next story, I was pondering the title of its’ first episode. I vaguely knew the source poem and had always assumed that it was partially a punContinue reading “World Enough and Time by Steven Moffat (2017)”
A Journal of Impossible Things 