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  DOCTOR WHO-THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM and THE POISON SKY   It’s so unfair. It took me a long time to get through the David Tennant episodes but only because I have seen most of them more than once (some, like Chris E’s eps, I’ve seen five or more times), almost as long as it took me to go through the horrid Matt Smith seasons (that took me close to three years). It’s also unfair that I have almost nothing to say about the David episodes while I’m picking apart every scene in the Moffat Error.   I will say that it took me three weeks between part one of this and part two. I think it was the Adric Effect, this time I had feelings of dread having to watch the affable Ross Jenkins get killed, somewhat needlessly and I am not sure but I think it is the fault of Colonel Mace, who didn’t seem to listen to the Doctor about not fighting Sontarans. Maybe? Either way, I haven’t yet gotten around that happier ending SAVING PRIVATE JENKINS though a friend might do it first and t...

    DEEP BREATH   Okay, I've been very hard on the Moffat era of DW and for good reason: it mostly sucked. We've had maybe 15 good episodes since 2010 and that's rounding up. I hated Matt Smith's Doctor, his companions, and the illogical arcs and unfunny dialog and slapstick. Most of the episodes feature long winded speeches that are just...wrong. Also wrong is much of the philosophy Moffat compounds on us about ...well, things, life, the universe, etc. In addition, he gets continuity wrong as well as plain old story telling. Just wrong.   In any case, aside from hating and still hating the Paternoster gang or whatever those three idiots are called, here, they're somewhat tolerable. I still feel they are out of place in NEW DW and no one around them seemed particularly bothered that two of them are aliens and two of them are lesbians...and it's hardly concealed. Then, there's the fact that reality is sort of thrown out the window by a large dino wa...

  TARZAN: THE EPIC ADVENTURES ep 12: TARZAN AND THE WHITE PEBBLE   We enter 1997 and thus presumably a new year in the fictional world too: so, 1915 (the first episode stated it was 1914) OR 1918 (ep11 shows a book that looks officially published and wasn’t published until 1917 at the earliest). So, it is possible that the first two episodes, THE RETURN OF TARZAN parts one and two, shown as one TV movie (in the summer of 96) took place in the fictional 1914 and then some three years or so passed until the third episode? OR, the last episode aired before this one (ep11) THE RETURN OF KUKULCAN took place in 1917 while everything before that took place in earlier years?   Whatever.   The second part of the credits have changed slightly with new clips from the past episodes added to the old mix and a few have vanished from the credits. The narration in the first half remains the same. These credits seem to move faster and are superior IMO.   They sti...