Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song [Review]

After an awesome season, the mystery of the Doctor’s death in Lake Silencio, Utah has been finally solved. And boy, it was a ride. We’ve all followed this story with much gusto, and now we’ve come to the end, I find how the Doctor managed to escape his demise a bit… underwhelming.

I actually found the use of the [SPOILER] Tessalecta as a way for the Doctor to escape death brilliant, and the use of the Ganger for the entire season as a red herring was a great misdirect. Too bad the reveal and the whole pacing of the episode was off. It didn’t have the huge emotional impact of the last season’s finale, and that part disappointed me big time.

It’s not so bad though. The Silence, after the events of The Day of the Moon, were once again a credible threat not just for our favorite TARDIS crew but also for humanity as a whole. Moffat once again crammed all his signature crazy ideas in the script, and every single one of them worked.

Anyway, enough rambling: read my full review of The Wedding of River Song over on Geekout!

What did you think of the Doctor Who series 6 finale?

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Dentist Time at K Dental Studio!

A couple of weeks back, I managed to get out of my computer chair for a few hours to visit K Dental Studio at Medical Plaza Ortigas. I was a bit nervous – you see, dental hygiene isn’t really a priority when you live on the internet and I was scared to find out what sort of evils live in my mouth without my knowledge.

Unlike most people, I’m not scared of dentists and their drills and torture chamber-like examination rooms. However, I can totally understand where the fear is coming from. Try sitting on that chair for hours with your mouth wired open while a half-interested dental assistant pokes your mouth with various implements that look like they came straight out of a horror film – yeah, that will surely break even the strongest of spirits.

Fig 1: I pretend to be not scared shitless

I was surprised at how different K Dental Studio feels like from other dental clinics I’ve been to. Yes it still looks like a clinic, but it’s doesn’t have that foreboding sense of doom that most people feel when they visit other clinics. Read More »

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Hi, I’m Ade and I Write About Doctor Who at GeekOut.PH Now

I noticed lately that I have been writing about Doctor Who on this blog a lot. I mean, it’s okay since my beginner’s guide to the show has been cited by no less than the official BBCA Doctor Who Tumblr as a great guide for new Whovians. But when you see nothing but “DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO DOCTOR WHO ” when you open up this blog, it’s time to switch formats. Again. I’m surprised I don’t get comments that say “ADE STOP BLOGGING ABOUT DOCTOR WHO ALREADY OK WE GET IT YOU LIKE THE SHOW.”

And just in time, because Bim opened up a new site catering to all sorts of geekery. It’s called Geek Out, and it’s filled to the brim with goodies for, well, geeks. I decided to continue writing my Doctor Who articles over there at the Idiot Box column. Now, you can experience me not updating this blog for weeks at a time again! Read More »

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Tips for Beginner Runners (That I Disregarded)

A month ago, I started taking steps to get physically fit again. I’ve long given up on exercise, but I don’t want to keel over and die of a heart attack or some other obesity-related sickness by the time I’m 35, so I have to start somewhere and start working out again, right? Actually, a friend just forcibly signed me up for this shit and I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. Imagine a scene where I’m being dragged out of my room by five people, while I was screaming “NO, I DON’T WANT TO LEAVE THE SAFETY OF MY BASEMENT MY COMICS ARE KEEPING ME COMPANY FUCK YOU NO I DON’T WANT TO SEE SUNLIGHT NO” as I struggle to hold my bag of Cheetos in one hand. No, that didn’t happen, what kind of person did you think I was?

Starting exercising again after around a few years (shut up and fuck you) isn’t really that easy. However, I’m doing this for just a month and I actually feel better already. I think I look better too.

Anyway, here are a few tips I learned over the course of a month that made the transition from a fat and lazy idiot to an active (but fat) individual. Read More »

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Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler [Review]

After three long, excruciating months, Doctor Who is finally back, giving us the brand of time bending and mind blowing stories that we’ve always loved. And what better way to come back from a hiatus than to give us an episode called Let’s Kill Hitler? For months, people have speculated over the meaning of the title – did the Doctor accidentally save Hitler’s life that he must kill the Führer? Is it going to be a deep, dark moral struggle of an episode where the Doctor makes an excruciating choice? Actually, no. These aren’t the RTD years, silly. This is Steven Moffat writing, and he doesn’t care at all about that silly moral conundrum stuff.

Spoilers on ahead.

Hitler

The thing about Hitler is that he’s one of history’s biggest monsters that dedicating an entire episode to him be too dark and Doctor Who is a children’s show – it can’t get that dark. So I was really glad that Hitler was just a red herring (sorry, can’t resist) thrown in to keep the fans talking, and then dealt with in the quickest fashion: Rory punches Hitler, and then he gets to say a line only the best actors have dreamed of saying – “SHUT UP, HITLER!” – and then the TARDIS crew lock him up in a cupboard, to be forgotten for the rest of the episode. The total absurdity of it all had me in stitches. Read More »

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