From MadCap's Couch - Doctor Who: "The Pandorica Opens"

Piscem hunc magnum quondam cepi!

And so, we come to it at last! The first part of the epic two part finale of Series 5!

Let's GOOOOOOOO!

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

"Hey, wanna buy some Girl Scout cookies?"

Now it's time for a concept that I'm kind of iffy about - the companion-lite episode. The reverse of Doctor-lite episodes like Love & Monsters, Blink, and Turn Left, we saw this experimented with in the very, very excellent Midnight, where Russell T. Davies cleverly (no, really, it was) explored the tropes of Doctor Who and turned them on their head. In Series 5, Moffat decided to continue the tradition and thus Gareth Roberts penned The Lodger, which we'll be looking at today.

From MadCap's Couch - Doctor Who: "Vincent and the Doctor"

From lizard people from the dawn of time to a Post-Impressionist painter who is arguably one of the greatest who have ever lived. It's time to get into one of my favorite episodes of Series 5 and indeed the entire Matt Smith era of the show - Vincent and the Doctor.

From MadCap's Couch - Doctor Who: "Cold Blood"

Excuse me but do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Curt Connors?

Last time, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory found themselves at a Welsh mining operation in the far off year of 2020 that was becoming the target of a bunch of Silurians. Faced with a nigh-impossible situation, with humans captured by the Silurians and Silurians captured by the humans, the Doctor finds that it is not remotely a small tribe of them... not remotely a small tribe at all...

MadCap's Fiction Corner - Seattle By Night: "Release of Madness" (Part 5)

Author Note: So, a bit of housekeeping here before we get started. This is going to be the last Seattle By Night story that will be in parts. After having had about six months since the last part to think this over, I've decided that I'm going to continue writing through to the ending of each part, keeping each story to one blog post. While I understand that this will make the stories longer and not everybody likes reading on and on and on through mountains of text... I'm in too deep to stop at this point and this is the only way I can see to get back to any consistency.

Plus side, this means that we only have five more stories to get to the end of Season 1, rather than... however many parts I'd have to split things up into.

Also, expect the tone to get much darker from here on out. I'll pop a content warning onto future posts, but I intend to draw a bit more from the overall tone of the actual Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop game. I admit, looking back over it, things were a bit goofy and we're gonna start weeding that out from here on out into the end of Season 1 and... well, whatever comes next. We'll see.

With all of that out of the way, let's pick up on the cliffhanger I left us on six months ago...

...and don't worry, we'll be getting back to Doctor Who, don't worry. It is still the 60th Anniversary, after all.