Star Wars and Doctor Who

Star Wars and Doctor Who

Monday, 31 October 2016

Class Review #3: Night Visiting

Night Visiting by Patrick Ness

3rd Episode of the 1st Series of the 5th spin off series of Doctor Who, Class.

Class is beginning to get a bit samey. At episode 3 this is a bit worrying. It seems that something pops out of the rip in time does something, is stopped really easily and then the children continue acting a normal way.

Primary Cast

Tanya: 7/10
April: 7/10
Ram: 7/10
Tanya: 7/10
Miss Quill: 7/10
Charlie: 6/10
Total: 41/60

No one was great but no one was stand out either.

The Enemy

Lin Kin: 7/10

Story Rating

Story: 7/10 - All right, better than the last one.
Scariness: 7/10
Seriousness: 7/10
Humour: 5/10
Continuity: 5/10 - Where are all the people? Where are the police?
Total: 31/50

Total: 79/120

For Tonight we might die - 74.66%
The Coach with the Dragon Tatoo - 70.66%
Night Visiting - 65.83%

Worst one so far

Sunday, 23 October 2016

Star Wars Rebels Season 3

Star Wars Rebels has been going for while now with its 3rd season here are my views on those episodes

Episodes 1 and 2: Steps into the Shadow: 3/5
Episode 3: Holocrons of Fate: 4/5
Episode 4: The Antilles Extraction: 3/5
Episode 5: Hera's Heroes: 3/50
Episode 6: The Last Battle: 4/5 - The best episode of the series so far

Series 10: What we Know so Far: October 2016

Everything in italics is rumour and speculation

Regular Cast

12th Doctor - Peter Capaldi (All episodes)
Bill - Pearl Mackie (Episode 1+)

Recurring Cast

Nardole - Matt Lucas (Episode 1 + Chrismas Special 2016 + TBD)
11th Doctor - Matt Smith
The Cast of Class - Various


Enemies

Daleks
Missy (Episode 5 or 9)
The Great Intelligence (Christmas Special 2016)
The Valeyard
Episode Titles

Christmas Special = The Return of the Doctor Mysterio
Episode 1 = Stars in her Eyes
Episode 4 = The Haunted Hub
Episode 2-3, 5-12, Christmas Special 2 = TBD

Filming

June 2016

Release

April 2017

Showrunner

Steven Moffat

Writers

TBD: Mark Gattis
TBD: Jamie Mathieson
Episode 1, 10-12 + 2 Christmas Specials: Steven Moaffat
Episode 2: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Episode 3: Sarah Dollard
Episode 4: Mike Barlett

Directors

Peter Jackson 
Lawrence Gough 
Bill Anderson

Class Episode 2 Review: The Coach with the Dragon Tatoo

The Coach with the Dragon Tatoo by Patrick Ness

The Coach with the Dragon Tatoo is the second episode of the first series of Class. It features the death of the Doctor Who character Mr Armitage.

This episode was a lot worse then the last one for me.

Cast Rating

Ram: 9/10
April: 7/10
Charlie: 7/10
Tanya: 8/10
Miss Quill: 7/10
Total: 38/50

Ram is very good. He is acting like the rest of them should with the whole situation

Guest Cast

Varun Singh: 7/10
Mr Armitage: 7/10
The Inspector: 8/10
Total: 22/30

Varun and Mr Armitage were good but not enough to do.

Enemy Rating

Coach Dawson: 7/10
The Dragon: 7/10

Coach Dawson was hardly understandable at times and the dragon was quite poor CGI.

Story Rating

Story: 6/10
Scariness: 8/10
Seriousness: 9/10
Humour: 5/10
Continuity: 4/10
Total: 32/50

This didn't make me laugh and the fact that the school wasn't protected by police did annoy me.
The school is now missing: 2 coaches, 2 students, 1 teacher, 1 cleaner and 1 inspector. Where are the police? That's the problem with setting it at a school. Until I see police the continuity score will keep going down with the number of deaths at the school.

Total: 106/150

For Tonight We Might Die: 74.66%
The Coach with the Dragon Tatoo: 70.66%

6% lower. I hope next episode is going to be better. Possibly a sighting of Ian Chesterton perhaps? I hope so. Line Counts for these episodes coming soon. 

Class Episode 1: For Tonight We Might Die

For Tonight we Might Die by Patrick Ness

For Tonight we Might Die is the first episode of Doctor Who's fifth spin off series, Class. It introduced the series regulars, Charlie, Tanya, April, Ram and Miss Quill. The 12th Doctor and Mr Armitage from Doctor Who also featured.

This episode was really good to start of  the series, however there are problems with this series.

Main Cast

Charlie: 8/10
Tanya: 7/10
Ram: 9/10
April: 8/10
Miss Quill: 8/10
Total: 40/50

I feel that Charlie and Miss Quill could more mystery could be built up on them instead of it all being revealed so soon

Guest Cast

12th Doctor: 9/10
Matteusez: 6/10
Mr Armitage: 6/10
Rachael: 6/10
Total: 27/40

The 12th Doctor shows up and saves the day. More or less perfect but he didn't have to be in the episode. Matteusez didn't really do much and Mr Armitage wasn't really involved

Enemy Rating

The Shadow Kin: 7/10

Good idea but shadows have been used before

Story Rating

Story: 7/10
Scariness: 8/10
Seriousness: 8/10
Humour: 9/10
Continuity: 6/10
Total: 38/50

Continuity gets a low score because why weren't all the teachers there and other holes. Humour is high because the Doctor was very funny with his jokes about Football and Media Studies.

Total: 112/150

For Tonight We Might Die: 74.66%

Saturday, 10 September 2016

Series 10: What We Know So Far: September 2016

Everything in italics is rumour and speculation

Regular Cast

12th Doctor - Peter Capaldi (All episodes)
Bill - Pearl Mackie (Episode 1)

Recurring Cast

Nardole - Matt Lucas (Episode 1 + Christmas Special 2016 + TBD)
11th Doctor - Matt Smith
The Cast of Class - Various
Enemies

Daleks
Missy

Episode Titles

Christmas Special = TBD
Episode 1 = Stars in her Eyes
Episode 2-12, Christmas Special 2 = TBD

Filming

June 2016

Release

April 2017

Showrunner

Steven Moffat

Writers

TBD: Mark Gattis
TBD: Jamie Mathieson
Episode 1, 10-12 + 2 Christmas Specials: Steven Moaffat
Episode 2: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Episode 3: Sarah Dollard
Episode 4: Mike Barlett

Directors

Peter Jackson 
Lawrence Gough 
Bill Anderson

Doctor Who Details: Updated

DW Season 1
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 42 episodes
Release Time: November 1963 - September 1964
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 2
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 39 episodes
Release Time: October 1964 - July 1965
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 3
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 45 episodes
Release Time: September 1965 - July 1966
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 4
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 43 episodes
Release Time: September 1966 - July 1967
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 5
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 40 episodes
Release Time: September 1967 - June 1968
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 6
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes (Episode 1-5, 11-44), 30 minutes (Episode 6-10)
Number of Episodes: 44 episodes
Release Time: August 1968 - June 1969
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 7
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 25 episodes
Release Time: January 1970 - June 1970
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 8
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 25 episodes
Release Time: January 1971 - June 1971
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 9
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: January 1972 - June 1972
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 10
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: December 1972 - June 1973
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 11
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: December 1973 - June 1974
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 12
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 20 episodes
Release Time: December 1974 - May 1975
Time Shown: 5.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 13
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: August 1975 - March 1976
Time Shown: 6.00pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 14
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: September 1976 - April 1977
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 15
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: September 1977 - March 1978
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 16
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: September 1978 - February 1979
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 17
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 20 episodes
Release Time: September 1979 - January 1980
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 18
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 28 episodes
Release Time: August 1980 - March 1981
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 19
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 26 episodes
Release Time: January 1982 - March 1982
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Thursday and Friday, once weekly

DW Season 20
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes (Episode 1-22), 90 minutes (Episode 23)
Number of Episodes: 23 episodes (22+1)
Release Time: January 1983 - March 1983, November 1983
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Tuesday and Wednesday, once weekly

DW Season 21
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes (Episode 1-10, 13-24), 45 minutes (Episode 11-12)
Number of Episodes: 24 episodes
Release Time: January 1984 - March 1984
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Monday and Wednesday, once weekly

DW Season 22
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes
Number of Episodes: 13 episodes
Release Time: January 1985 - March 1985
Time Shown: 6.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 23
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes (Episode 1-13), 30 minutes (Episode14)
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes
Release Time: September 1986 - December 1986
Time Shown: 7.00pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Season 24
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes
Release Time: September 1987 - December 1987
Time Shown: 7.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Monday, once weekly

DW Season 25
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes
Release Time: October 1988 - January 1988
Time Shown: 7.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Wednesday, once weekly

DW Season 26
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 25 minutes
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes
Release Time: September 1989 - December 1989
Time Shown: 7.30pm
Day of Broadcast: Wednesday, once weekly

DW Series 1
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes
Number of Episodes: 13 episodes
Release Time: March 2005 - June 2005
Time Shown: 7.00pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly

DW Series 2 
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (episode 2-14), 60 minutes (episode 1)
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes (1+13)
Release Time: December 2005, April 2006-July 2006
Time Shown: 7.00pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly (Episode 2-14), Sunday (Episode 1)

DW Series 3
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (episode 2-13), 60 minutes (episode 1), 50 minutes (episode 14)
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes (1+13)
Release Time: December 2006, March 2007-June 2007
Time Shown: 7.00pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly (Episode 2-14), Monday (Episode 1)

DW Series 4 
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (episode 3-14), 70 minutes (episode 1), 50 minutes (Episode 2)  60 minutes (episode 15-18), 75 minutes (episode 19)
Number of Episodes: 19 episodes (1+13+1+1+1+2)
Release Time: December 2007, April 2008-July 2008, December 2008, April 2009, October 2009, December 2009 - January 2010
Time Shown: 7.00pm (Episode 1-2, 15-16, 18-19), 7.30pm (Episode 3-14), 8.00pm (Episode 17)
Day of Broadcast: Saturday, once weekly (Episode 2-14, 17), Tuesday (Episode 1), Thursday (Episode 15), Sunday (Episode 16), Friday (Episode 18-19)

DW Series 5
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (Episode 2-11), 50 minutes (Episode 12-13), 65 minutes (Episode 1)
Number of Episodes: 13 episodes
Release Time: April 2010-July 2010
Time Shown: 6.00pm
Day of Broadcast: Saturday

DW Series 6
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (Episode 2-8, 10-14), 50 minutes (Episode 8-9), 60 minutes (Episode 1)
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes (1+7+6)
Release Time: December 2010, April 2010-June 2011, August 2011-October 2011
Time Shown: 6.00pm (Episode 1), 6.30pm (Episode 2-14)
Day of Broadcast: Saturday

DW Series 7
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (Episode 3-6, 8-15), 50 minutes (Episode 2), 60 minutes (Episode  1, 7, 17), 75 minutes (Episode 16)
Number of Episodes: 17 episodes (1+5+1+8+1+1)
Release Time: December 2011, September 2012, December 2012, March 2013-May 2013, November 2013, December 2013)
Time Shown: 5.30pm (Episode 1), 7.00pm (Episode 7), 7.30pm (Episode 2-6, 8-15), 9.00pm (Episode 16), 8.00pm (Episode 17)
Day of Broadcast: Saturday (Episode 2-6, 8-16), Sunday (Episode 1), Tuesday (Episode 7), Wednesday (Episode 17)

DW Series 8
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 45 minutes (Episode 2-11), 75 minutes (Episode 1), 60 minutes (Episode 12)
Number of Episodes: 12 episodes
Release Time: August 2014-November 2014
Time Shown: 7.30pm (Episode 1), 8.30pm (Episode 2-12)
Day of Broadcast: Saturday

DW Series 9
Network: BBC One
Length of Episodes: 60 minutes (episode 1, 14), 45 minutes (Episode 4-13), 50 minutes (Episode 1-2), 55 minutes (Episode 12), 65 minutes (Episode 13)
Number of Episodes: 14 episodes (1+12+1)
Release Time: December 2014, September 2015-December 2015
Time Shown: 6.30pm (Episode 1), 8.30pm (Episode 2-13), 5.30pm (Episode 14)
Day of Broadcast: Saturday (Episode 2-13), Thursday (Episode 1), Friday (Episode 14)