From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: The Next Doctor"

C'mon, fellas! It's not the size, it's how you use it!

I kind of have a sort of love-hate relationship with the Cybermen in the New Series. They're one of the two most iconic creatures in the history of the show (due in no small part of their rampant use during the Second and Fifth Doctor's eras) alongside the Daleks. I really do like them a lot, it's just that the Revived Series of Doctor Who doesn't seem to have any real confidence in them.

Rather like The Next Doctor doesn't have a lot of confidence in its title - that being that the title is an outright stinking lie from start to finish. Does that make the episode itself bad?

. . .no, the episode is...okay. Just okay.

From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: Journey's End"

This is really kind of stupid.

Rose Tyler is Awful Count: 10,111,272,618

What's that?

Oh, I'm just making sure everyone knows where the tally is. This is it, everybody. The first finale on the Russell T. Davies era entire. 

Yeah, we're getting to The End of Time, but that is a while off and we do actually have...something good between here and there.

This isn't it, but we do have it.

From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth"

"Doctor! What is that?"
"It's Russell! He's making more plot holes!!!"

Well, after a fairly solid season...here we are.

I started this trek long ago with Series 1, never thinking we would actually get this far before I lost interest or something monumentally stupid happened that would kill my enthusiasm to review it like we did Supernatural. So, I really have no one to blame but myself.

It's like Radiohead said - "you do it to yourself, and that's what really hurts."

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Darkman" (1990)

Now, this might look suspiciously similar to something we covered earlier this year: being a story about a man who hides his face in order to fight crime.

. . .unfortunately, Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is no Lamont Cranston and Darkman is a very, very different animal from The Shadow in many ways, some of which will become obvious as we go on. However, Darkman does owe its existence to The Shadow, as the original intention of writer and director Sam Raimi was to make a film based around The Shadow or Batman. Without the ability to do either, he decided to create his own superhero with the help of older brother Ivan, Chuck Pfarrer, and Daniel and Joshua Goldin in writing the script that would become Darkman.

From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: Turn Left"

Careful, or we'll see the cast of Firefly going the other way...

Insert "someone go back and reset 2020" joke here.

Although I'm sure that the Coronavirus will be a thing of the past...he typed in February hoping against hope that repeating this as often and as loudly as possibly would speak it into reality.

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971)

If you want to view paradise

simply look around and view it!

Anything you want to, do it!

Last for fifty years?

There's nothing...to it!

Yeah, that's right. This year marks the 50th anniversary since the North American release of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! Granted, of course, I'm about five days late on the delivery, but what do you want? Schedules are a pain!

MadCap's Fiction Corner - "Seattle By Night: Anarchy in the EC, Part 1"

"I really don't wanna go through the whole thing, to be honest."

"Let's go over the facts again."

Sybil stared at the man under the hot light in the cold interrogation room.

"I already told you, I wasn't there."