NOIR CITY 16: Setting the Stage

Thank you for your patience as I cavorted on the left coast for 11 days. I am now home in Brookline organizing my thoughts, notes, photographs and, of course, data. This is the first in a series of posts based upon my recent trip to NOIR CITY 16 in San Francisco, California. It outlines my … Continue reading NOIR CITY 16: Setting the Stage →

Rating Doctor Who, post “reboot,” episode 3

In a previous post, I posed the following question (edited for brevity): Which of the 131 Doctor Who episodes (115 Series episodes, 12 Christmas episodes, three 10th Doctor specials, 50th anniversary special), nine Series’ and four Doctors have been the most (and least) admired since Rose first aired on March 26, 2005? I then posed a … Continue reading Rating Doctor Who, post “reboot,” episode 3 →

Rating Doctor Who, post “reboot,” episode 2

In a previous post, I posed the following question (edited for brevity): Which of the 131 Doctor Who episodes, nine Series’ and four Doctors have been the most (and least) admired since Rose first aired on March 26, 2005? We learned that AI scores, IMDB ratings, and number of IMDB user-raters for each episode reveal: … Continue reading Rating Doctor Who, post “reboot,” episode 2 →

Rating Doctor Who, post “reboot,” episode 1

Maybe it was because my wife had gotten me to watch Love Actually the night before, but I found the romance aspect of The Return of Doctor Mysterioso, the 2016 Doctor Who Christmas special, more compelling than the “aliens attack Earth on Christmas” aspect. Come to think of it, there was not much Christmas in the … Continue reading Rating Doctor Who, post “reboot,” episode 1 →