Before Steven Moffat was master of Doctor Who and Sherlock, he'd largely worked not in action-drama, but comedy. One of his last and most successful sitcom projects before joining Team Who was Coupling – on the surface, a sitcom with a simple aspiration: being the smuttier, more British … [Read more...]
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“I’m Going For A Walk, I May Take All Season.” Game of Thrones S3E10 – Dork Review
Season finale time in Game of Thrones! But moderate your throbbing anticipation, as we all know by now that Thrones finale time means epilogues to the big action of the year, which happens in the previous week. But they normally include an exciting climax to that season’s Daenerys storyline to make … [Read more...]
Death Of A Party! Game of Thrones S3E9 – Dork Review
It's been a strange day on the internet, as the UK Game of Thrones watching community coped in various ways with spoilers leaking out of America. Some embraced them to avoid trauma, others ran screaming through Twitter, ducking and diving as if under heavy machine gunfire. But regardless: it's … [Read more...]
Matt Smith leaves Doctor Who! Are we angry? Who should replace him?
People had been whispering about a potential change-of-Time-Lord at Doctor Who for a while, so after rumours of an “upcoming big announcement” hit the internet last night, it wasn't a huge surprise when it turned out to be Matt Smith leaving the show. Our floppy-haired hero will appear in November's … [Read more...]
Typical Bloody Royal Wedding, Overshadowing Everything Else… Game Of Thrones S3E8 – Dork Review
A few weeks back, covering episode four of Game of Thrones , I enthused about how impressively this season had avoided lapsing into a dull mid-section. Well, I might’ve fired off those missiles early, as the latest effort has a hint of flab showing around its midriff. Only a hint, though – … [Read more...]
Who is the Doctor? Who is Clara? Why always that bloody leaf? Doctor Who series 7 finale – Dork Review
So, the long-awaited series finale of Doctor Who. It's been a patchy series – a lot of it, to be honest, just kinda okayish, but they've still set up a decent pile of mysteries to resolve in this last one. Who is Clara? What is the Doctor's name? Steven Moffat might now tell us. Hold on to your … [Read more...]
Daddy’s Home And He’s Brought A Bear… Game of Thrones S3E7 – Dork Review
There's a mini-trend of novelists writing geek shows right now – mere days after Neil Gaiman on Doctor Who, we get our annual Game of Thrones script by George R.R. Martin, original author behind the A Song Of Ice And Fire novels upon which this whole shebang is based. His previous scripts have … [Read more...]
Will you be sobbing over the Cybermen once Neil Gaiman’s finished? Doctor Who S7BE7 – Dork Review
Only two episodes to go of this seventh Doctor Who series, and this is both the penultimate episode and written by geek idol Neil Gaiman. Oh, and trying to make the Cybermen scary again, after a long dark spell – the shiny ones have struggled since they were spanked by the Daleks at the end of their … [Read more...]
DARK TREK – THE FINAL DARKTIER. Star Trek Into Darkness – Dork Review
Many fantasy/sci-fi franchises turn “dark” in their second or third films – once your heroes have some early triumphs, after all, it’s too tempting to take a big poo on them and see how they handle that. Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to 2009’s Star Trek, isn’t being subtle about its Dark … [Read more...]
A better Miley Cyrus cover than that X-Factor kid, it’s Game of Thrones S3E6 – Dork Review
This week in Game of Thrones, everyone starts to get stretched a little. They climb a wall, lose a finger, get slaughtered by a crazed King, have their dream wedding snatched away – there are still somelaughs, but as we enter the second half of the season, it feels like the fun part is coming to an … [Read more...]
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