Sarah Jane Adventures: The Empty Planet (2 episodes, s04e04, 2010) It’s a tale of loneliness and acceptance. Mr. Smith detects an alien energy trace but it vanishes into Earth’s own energy signals. Sarah Jane asks for a deep scan to locate it while Rani and Clyde look on. Sarah Jane
Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor (2 episodes, s04e03, 2010) The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor. Luke is talking to the Bannerman Road Gang over webcam when UNIT arrive at Sarah Jane’s home. Colonel Tia Karim bears bad news: The Doctor is dead. The Shansheeth discovered the
Sarah Jane Adventures: The Vault of Secrets(2 episodes, s04e02, 2010) Here come the Men in Black… um… again. A teenage girl searches an abandoned asylum for something called the Vault of Secrets. Her arrival sets off alarms and awakens guardians. When she finds the vault she’s stopped in her tracks
Sarah Jane Adventures: The Nightmare Man (2 episodes, s04e01, 2010) You can’t get him out of your head. Luke starts the story with a warning that the end of the world is approaching, that it is his fault, and the Nightmare Man is coming for him. One year earlier, Luke
Doctor Who: Series Five Summary Series Five shifted gears with a new Doctor and a new showrunner. Having seen the Matt Smith episodes before, I haven’t looked back fondly upon them. I think part of it was my mindset, especially after binging the episodes from Series One. I’m also a
Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens Doctor Who: The Big Bang (2 episodes, s05e12-e13, 2010) A roller coaster ride that closes the narrative circle. Mostly. The Pandorica Opens France, 1890: Vincent van Gogh finishes a painting and lapses into a screaming fit. Doctor Gachet and Madame Vernet attempt to calm him,
Doctor Who: The Lodger (1 episode, s05e11, 2010) The Odd Couple and Three’s Company meet a blender. The TARDIS lands in Colchester, which is far from the intended destination of the Fifth Moon of Sinda Callista. The Doctor is somehow shoved out of the TARDIS as it dematerializes with Amy still
Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor (1 episode, s05e10, 2010) Demons take their toll. The Doctor and Amy visit the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The Doctor is being very nice to Amy to distract her from something she doesn’t quite remember. While Doctor Henry Black leads a tour of the Vincent van Gogh
Doctor Who: The Hungry Earth Doctor Who: Cold Blood (2 episodes, s05e08-09, 2010) Time travel can be cruel. The Hungry Earth In the year 2020, a team led by Dr. Nasreen Chaudhry is engaged in the deepest drilling project in history. This is taking place in Cwmtaff, Wales, and they’re
Doctor Who: Amy’s Choice (1 episode, s05e07, 2010) Life is but a dream. In quiet Upper Leadworth, a very pregnant Amy is mixing up a cake in the kitchen when she has a false labor alarm. Rory finds her eating the batter when the Doctor arrives. It’s been five years
Doctor Who: The Vampires of Venice (1 episode, s05e06, 2010) There’s something fishy in the waters of Venice. Meanwhile in the TARDIS, Part II The Doctor gets Amy back into the TARDIS where she continues trying to seduce him. While he tries to work the console, proclaiming to be a
Doctor Who: The Time of Angels Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone (2 episodes, s05e04-05, 2010) Not blinking just got a lot more complicated. The Time of Angels A uniformed man spins blindly in a field, his face graced by a lipstick kiss. When a man in an evening suit wipes
