The second of the three 3.75" scale Doctor Who figures I planned to pick up is unsurprisingly a modern interpretation of a classic monster. This Ice Warrior figure is based on their appearance from the series 7 episode Cold War , in which Grand Marshall Skaldak was awakened aboard a Soviet submarine. Here is the review of these highly popular Martian warriors. The Doctor Who  figure packaging is universal, and as such there is absolutely no difference between this and the packaging talked about in my earlier Dalek review other than the card at the front of the plastic bubble. However I will mention that the back advertises the Cold War  playset, which includes an exclusive unarmoured Ice Warrior figure. Only the figure doesn't look anything like how Skaldak did in the episode, which begs the question of what exactly Character were basing the figure off of... And so here is our Ice Warrior figure, standing as tall as he can at this scale. That being ...

After the Ponds bowed out at the end of The Angels Take Manhattan back in October, the Doctor has turned his attentions towards a new mystery. Following his second encounter with the "impossible girl" Clara Oswald in The Snowmen , finding out who she really is and how she can exist in more than one place has become the Doctor's newest priority. Luckily, it doesn't take him long to find a new Clara to take on adventures in the second half of Doctor Who 's seventh (modern) season! We begin the half-season with  The Bells of Saint John (★★★) which, while not a bad episode in itself, doesn't feel like anything the audience hasn't seen before. The Great Intelligence is back again, only this time moving away from snow-related henchmen to a more contemporary scheme. The not-so-subtle commentary on just how vulnerable we would be from a wifi attack is great, but the dodgy looking robot things and motorcycle action sequences just reek of a generic f...