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 ...

I know I'm very late to the game writing this, but following my rather strong feelings on Asylum of the Daleks and the fact that the second half of the season won't be airing for a while it seemed appropriate to split this year's Doctor Who review into sections. The two sections also reflect the two different tones the two parts will have, as we say goodbye to Rory and Amy here and say hello to Oswin next year. But enough of that, let's take a look at the episodes one by one. I've already said everything that needed to be said about how much I hated the portrayal of the Daleks in Asylum of the Daleks (★★), so in order not to sound like a broken record I'll refrain from repeating. But what I will say is that this episode could have been so much better had it used any other monster in their place. While the introduction and resolution of Amy and Rory's apparent divorce was abrupt and reasonably pointless, the surprise introduction of Oswin was ver...