Silo Season 2 Episode 8 - The Book of Quinn
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Warning! Spoilers ahead! I have not read the book series this show is based on, so this is a highly speculative review and summary This episode expands on the characters and the rebellion in Silo18 and gives some crumbs towards mystery building in Silo17. In Silo18, There are several subplots and storylines that are going on simultaneously. First i...
Silo Season 2 Episode 7 - The Dive
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Warning! Spoilers ahead! I have not read the book series this show is based on, so this is a highly speculative review and summary This episode continues the build up of the tension in silo18 towards rebellion, with an outright message to the rest of the silo via a launched rocket full of, albeit true, propaganda. The main story lines are the conti...
Doctor Who - s15e00 - Joy to the World
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Finally, the Christmas special, something to brighten our otherwise stress ridden family get-togethers, and really somewhat of a tradition as each year we are rewarded with a brooding Doctor that cheers up and spreads the holiday spirit. The episode opens with the Doctor going from time periods and places to place offering a ham and cheese toastie ...
Doctor Who - s14e07 - The Legend of Ruby Sunday
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In true Russell T Davis tradition he makes the next to next to last episode a lighthearted one before hitting us over the head with a gripping finale. This penultimate episode ends on a thrilling cliffhanger. The episode opens with the Doctor landing the Tardis in UNIT and asks UNIT to work on a mystery for him, why is there a woman ever present wh...
Doctor Who - s14e06 - Rogue
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While deciding to adventure in 1813 at a royal ball, the Doctor and Ruby decide to appear to enjoy dancing. Ruby gets to use psychic earrings so that she doesnt miss a beat while dancing. The psychic earrings experience sonar interference which is quite odd in 1831 and the Doctor uses this as a trail leading him to a mysterious brooding figure who ...
Doctor Who - s14e05 - Dot and Bubble
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This week's episode was more about a side character and less about the Doctor and Ruby. In an force-field protected town on a planet is FineTime where the children of upper class parents are sent to enjoy life, only working two hours a day and spending the rest of the time partying. The work they do is legitimate, handling and manipulating data. Ho...
Doctor Who - s14e04 - 73 Yards
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After landing at the top of a cliff in Wales, the Doctor trips over a circle of wool string and Ruby reads some of the notes of the circle. After Ruby vocalizes a note's words, "Rest in peace, mad jack," the Doctor vanishes.. At this point, the episode focuses solely on Ruby Sunday and an ominous woman who follows her around but is never very close...
Doctor Who - s14e03 - Boom
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This week's episode is more intense as the show opens with a blind priest being led through a minefield by another priest. Both are apparently soldiers and making their way back to the base camp. They are currently fighting a war with the Kastarians who they have yet to make contact. One of the soldiers falls and steps on a mine and is disintegrate...
Doctor Who - s14e02 - Devil's Chord
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A darker, more exciting episode after the cutesy space babies episode. This one re-introduces the Pantheon where the Doctor first meets with the Toymaker and now has to contend with his daughter, the Maestro. Both seem to be bent on destroying our universe for their own fun......and both seem to have some peculiar trick towards entering this world....
Silo Season 2 Episode 6 - Barricades
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 Warning! Spoilers ahead! I have not read the book series this show is based on, so this is a highly speculative review and summary This episode shows silo18 move more and more towards towards rebellion as both sides escalate. First with the ultimate escalation of murdering the judge and framing Knox and Shirley (in the last episode), now with...