Silver Nemesis is good fun and entertaining, but I'm really not convinced that the plot makes perfect sense. It feels a little like a sequel to a non-existant story.

I feel that this issue wraps things up nicely. Things fall into place naturally, and questions I had several issues ago are answered. I do feel that the plot of this strip lost its way a bit around issue 3, but it recovered well enough in this final issue. As always, I adore the art. Barry Renshaw is great.

Another solid issue. Great art as always. The plot is starting to feel a little contrived, but I'm still looking forward to seeing how it ends.

Issue 1 was good, and issue 2 is better. I adore the artwork once again. Barry Renshaw did such an incredible job. The plot has began to really shape up and take some interesting turns. I can't wait to see where it goes next.

Firstly, the art: it's lovely! The somewhat simple style with the watercolours is so nice and works so well with this setting, character and story. Barry Renshaw did an impeccable job with it. The story itself seems interesting so far. A few things have been set up, and the strip has my interest and attention. I'm very excited to see where it goes next.

I think this is a good back-up strip. I felt that the art is good and distinctive, and I like the characters and the plot. Issue 4 was my favourite.

Vengeance is a very solid story. It has an interesting idea, although I do think it could have been fleshed out more. The art is very nice.

I did find the first 3 issues a bit lacking in substance, and I would have preferred it if the authority of the gods and whether that's a good thing was explored a bit further. Issue 4 feels very different, to the point that I went back to issue 3 to ensure I understood the ending correctly. It's my favourite of the four, and I liked it a lot. It also fixes my previous critique.

I like how Omega is kept in the background until the very end. It is a much better portrayal, in my opinion, than other recent attempts.

I was pleasantly surprised at how not completely terrible this was. However, I had rock bottom expectations, so that's not saying much.

I felt that it was editted really weirdly, with strange cuts and time skips. Some of the special effects are truly awful, with monsters warping around strangely. I don't love the new K9, and I think its newfound ability to fly is stupid.

The plot has some interesting ideas, and this is certainly not boring.

I feel that Dæmos Rising is better than a lot of Wilderness Years productions in some aspects for simply having a mostly clear plot, aided by sufficient exposition at good times in the story. However, I did not find the plot itself too interesting, and I never really felt too invested in the characters. There are some cool concepts, but I did feel that Dæmos Rising was trying a bit to hard to be "edgy" and occult, and not necessarily succeeding.

There are some questionable special effects in this, and not all of the acting is great.

The DVD has a behind the scenes documentary. This has some fun moments.

Downtime has to be one of the better Wilderness Years productions that I've watched so far. It has an intriguing premise and a hint of a serviceable plot. However, I think it suffers from the same problem as many other Wilderness Years productions, that being a lack of exposition. This is admittedly better then some, but it's still quite confusing and I still have several questions towards the end. It seems to me that there is a decent plot here, but it's obscured by this lack of exposition. I don't think this confusion was intentional, but maybe it was and I'm just missing something.

In other areas, this has some really solid characters, helped out by some really solid acting (there is also some very shoddy acting - a brief bit of child acting at the end might be the worst line delivery I've ever heard). I really like that the Doctor Who actors are mostly all playing the characters they're known for. I wish Sarah Jane had a bit more screentime, as I felt she was very well written. The brief exploration of Kate and the Brigadier's relationship was also interesting and I would have happily watched more of it.

I also apprciated the use of more than one filming location. In particular, the University of East Anglia campus was a great choice and instantly recongisable (I've only visited it once, and really not for very long, but the bridges and strange accomodation blocks feel very distinct). The number of extras included in this production is also genuinely quite impressive. Overall, it seems like this may have had a slightly higher budget than many other Wilderness Years productions.

Overall, this is fine, but I can't quite bring myself to call it good, and there are a great many other things I'd rather watch, read or listen to.

I really enjoyed this strip. Each installment was interesting and built up the world of Terra Alpha excellently. The art is absolutely lovely throughout. This was the highlight of each issue.

I found this strip to be completely uninspring and "hollow". It's not bad at all, but really just nothing special or too interesting.

This is a pretty good conclusion to a bit good storyline. I feel like it leaves the world of Paradise Towers in a good place with room to develop further. The art is strong as always in this strip. However, I did not like how quickly the threat of the fake Bubble Wrap and Can Opener is dealt with.

This is a really nice extra short story that expands upon the worldbuilding and lore in the main comic up to this point. It's good, well written and interesting. The title is also good.

Another solid issue. The story seems to be going in a really interesting direction and I'm genuinely very excited for the final part. Once again, some great artwork.

I liked this part a little less than the first. The art remains solid. I was a little put-off by the return of Pex as it seemed to somewhat undermine his death in Paradise Towers, but it seems like this is going to get taken in an interesting direction so I'm sure it will be fine.

I normally try to write my reviews of new episodes as soon as possible, typically straight after Unleashed. This time, I just couldn't bring myself to. In the gap between finishing watching The Reality War and writing this review, I have thought about this episode, this era, Russell T Davies and Doctor Who as a whole a lot. Like with most other episodes this series, my opinion on it has declined the more I've thought about (to the point where I prefered this over Wish World upon having just watched it, and now I'm rating it quite a bit lower). This is because this series is all about trying to be sensational, even at the cost of being bad. This series relies entirelly on its shock value, and there is very little actual substance to think about afterwards. The plots are busy, and character work is sidelined (I still don't feel I really know Belinda (more on this in particular later) and even the Fifteenth Doctor properly, while, comparing to series 1's Rose, I feel like I know Rose and the Ninth Doctor very well by the end).

In some ways, I feel that this episode is the best second part to Wish World that they could have done. My reasoning for this is that the Rani and Omega are all dealt with suprisngly quickly. To clarify, this is bad writing: after all of the build up, this episode should have spent much longer on those elements, but I did not like those elements so I kind of don't care. In the moment, I enjoyed the second half more. The more I've thought about it, however, the worse my opinion on it has got.

What little characterisation of Belinda we had received is largely re-written/re-interpreted, and her role in the story is reduced to standing in a box for a lot of the episode. I am extremely glad that Poppy didn't end up being linked to Susan, but that's really the only bit of praise I can bring myself to say. 

I really didn't like the large action sequence where UNIT was shooting at the big skeleton things. That's not what I watch Doctor Who for. If everything else would better, this would be fine, but it's yet another thing.

One small bit I did like was when the Rani got eaten by Omega and then the plot just moved on without addressing it. The Thirteenth Doctor scene was also really nice.

This is a fine first part. It's mostly setup, but I'd say that it's got me invested successfully. The art is nice.

There are good ideas here, but it seemed to go in the wrong direction in my opinion, and it just ended up being quite boring in my opinion. The Doctor's character felt a bit over-exagerated, and I didn't like this.

It's kind of hard to review Wish World in isolation, without the context of what's to come. However, I will try.

I felt that this was mostly a competent first part. It build tension, and did acceptable set up. However, it didn't really go anywhere, and its left a lot of threads to resolve in the next episode. I felt that the concept at the core of this was good and interesting, but I don't really like how it was tied together. It had a lot of very on the nose social commentary. I didn't really mind this. For once, I felt that I actually agreed with all of it (unless I missed something), and it didn't feel particuarly confused or messy. It also worked with the (little) plot that was here.

I felt that this episode was let down by its ties to the ongoing storylines. The Rani could have just been any villain, and the episode would have worked mostly the same. I really dislike the gods storyline, so I hated all of the ties to that in this. I also instinctively didn't like the Omega reveal, but I'll wait where that goes to form a strong opinion.

Much of the plot and the Rani's plan didn't make too much sense to me. Maybe it did make sense and I just didn't follow it well enough, but I really felt it was messy and unclear. Element like the giant skeletons didn't seem to have any purpose at all to me, and just servered to make the episode even messier. Another example is Rogue's brief cameo. It didn't really make sense, looked bad, and just seemed there to advance the plot in a bit of a meaningless way.

The sets looked good, although I thought that some of the special effects, particuarly at the end, didn't look to good.

Exploration Earth barely has a plot, and what plot it does have is, frankly, boring.

Cutting down a 6 part story to make it less than an hour long is an immensely tricky task. Here, though, I think that they've just about pulled it off. I should say that it's been a while since I watched the original story, so I can't easily compare what's been cut, but this version does hold up quite well, in my opinion, as a complete story. A few bits, here and there, were a little tricky to follow, and the pacing does suffer, but overall, this works! Genesis of the Daleks is, of course, an incredibly good story, and this version inherits most of that. There's not really anything much left to add. This is good!

This is pretty bad. More than anything, I just found the plot boring. I didn't care about any of the characters, and it felt like the production made minimal effort to correct that until the final 10 minutes. There was some extremely clunky acting (possibly down to the direction as, at other times, I thought the same actors were alright), as well as some odd dialogue. The stupid Sontaran was fun. Characters explaining to a Sontaran what a "female" is, and introducing the term "sexually pair bonded", not so much. Apparently this was an extremely rushed production. It shows.

On the positive side, I thought that the sets, costumes and effects looked pretty good. I quite liked the Sontaran design! However, these small positives were not enough to redeem this for me.

I've been finding it hard to assign this episode a solid rating. On the one hand, I really enjoyed it. I went into it expecting it to just be terrible and, even if it wasn't terrible, I was still not expecting to like it because I didn't think it would have been "for me" as I've never watched Eurovision and couldn't really care less about it. Thankfully, this episode pleasently suprised me, and I felt that it was actually quite an interesting plot with strong characters and (mostly) good pacing. On the other hand, however, I can see that there's some mixed/muddy politics here.

There are other reviews on this site that do a much better job exploring the issues here than I can, but I will try anyway. I really don't like war and violence, so I support the anti-violence message this episode largely gives (although applying this to the real world is, of course, usually much more nuanced), but there's also some messy things with the character of Cora, as working soley within the system is not necessarily a good idea in many cases, and it is important to be able to rebel against problematic systems and institutions, and those that do rebel are painted as villains, which is correct as they try to kill trillions of inocents, but potentially problematic as this is not representative of rebelions as a whole. The episode also seems to suggest that hiding your identity is a good thing, which I also don't necessarily agree with. Moreover, the political commentary doesn't really seem to cleanly end. We don't know what happens to the corporation, or to Hellia, and the Doctor doesn't really make any moves to "fix" the broader situation. On the whole, I think I can see what this episode was going for, but I don't think it quite got there solidly enough, and having it intrinsically tied to Eurovision probably doesn't help. I'm not great with articulating thoughts like this, so I hope all of that made sense and came across cleanly.

Returning to the plot, one reason that I felt that it worked so well was that it was quite simplistic, at its core. I feel that this is in direct contrast to many recent episodes, and I like it. It gives the characters and themes (problematic as they may be) so much more space to breath and be fully explored and, at last in this series, I felt that the episode was quite well paced. The only caviat here is the end, where everything seemed to turn around quite fast and the tone changed a little.

Another criticism that I have of this episode is its treatment of the character of the Doctor. I felt that the level of violence he displays in this episode is in direction contradiction to much of what we know about this character. This could be really interesting, but it just felt so rushed and sudden. There's a line where Belinda says something about the Doctor not being the Doctor (as in, she felt he was acting out of character), and I was completely ready for it to be revealed that the Doctor was a robot or a clone or a hollogram or something but, nope, it was just the Doctor. For an episode that seems to portray an anti-violence message, the Doctor sure is very violent, actually torturing someone, with no consequences. How did they think this was ok!? I feel like they're trying to work up to the Doctor being a bit darker in the finale, but starting this off the episode before just doesn't work. I also felt that the stuff with Susan was a bit out of place, but this doesn't bother me anywhere close to as much.

Then there's the stuff with Mrs Flood or, should I say, the Rani. I haven't really cared about Mrs Flood for any of this era so far, and I still find myself not really caring. There's no enough of it in this episode for me to feel able to judge if it was a good decision. There's also the bigeneration. I'm not really sure what to make of it to be honest.

Finally, I thought that the episode looked great visually. All of the sets looked impecable, and the range of aliens used solely for the background was really good.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode a lot, but its significantly flawed in several ways which, ultimately, brings down my overall ranking of it.

The best way I can think to describe Wartime is as extremely strange. The plot, while definitely deliberately confusing, isn't really coherent or clear enough (was it ever explained why Benton was seeing flashbacks from his past, or who the armed villain(s) were?). The editing is extremely weird throughout, with odd cuts and overlaid images. I also found some of the acting to be a bit wooden. Overall, why I enjoyed watching this a bit, that was because it reached the point of being so bad that it was a bit funny.