Yes, it’s another year end list!
by The Geek Speak Staff
The end of each year brings with it a time of joyous celebration and deep introspection. We get misty-eyed over the good times and maudlin over the bad, we think back to triumphs and disappointments and all the hot, hot people doing cool, cool stuff.
Nowhere is this spirit of retrospective analysis more in evidence than in the plethora of year’s best/worst lists that flood the media come December – and who are we to buck such a winning trend?
So here, Geek …

Written by: Steven Moffat
Directed by: Nick Hurran
US/UK Airdate: Saturday, September 29, 2012
In Short: All things end and time cannot be rewritten to change the fate of the Ponds.
Recommended: Yes.
AMY: And do one more thing for me. There’s a little girl waiting in a garden; she’s going to wait a long while so she’s going to need a lot of hope. Go to her; tell her a story. Tell her that if she’s patient the days are coming that she’ll never forget. Tell her she’ll go to see and fight pirates. …

Written by: Chris Chibnall
Directed by: Douglas Mackinnon
US/UK Airdate: Saturday, September 22, 2012
In Short: The Doctor gets bored of waiting for something to happen and so do we
Recommended: Um, no.
THE DOCTOR: I better get going. Things to do. Worlds to save. Swings to… swing on. Look. I know. You both have lives here. Beautiful, messy lives. That is what makes you so fabulously… human. You don’t want to give them up. I understand.
BRIAN: Actually, it’s you they can’t give up, Doctor. And I don’t think they should. Go with him. Go …

Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Nick Hurran
Original UK/US Airdate: Saturday, September 1, 2012
In Short: Who killed all the Daleks? Who do you think?
Recommended: Hell, yes!
DALEKS: Identify yourself! Identify! Identify!
DOCTOR: Well, it’s me. You know me – the Doctor. The Oncoming Storm. The Predator.
DARLA: Titles are not meaningful in this context. Doctor who?
DALEKS: Doctor who?
So a new a shiny new season which is already being billed as a corker since the news that the Ponds (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill) are departing the show and a new Companion is …

Written by: Chris Chibnall
Directed by: Saul Metzstein
Original UK/US Airdate: Saturday, September 8, 2012
In Short: Dads Rule, OK! Oh, and there may be some dinosaurs roaming about…
Recommended: Hell, yes!
RORY: Dig with what?
BRIAN: Ah, well! [brandishes his trowel]
RORY: Did you just have that on you?
BRIAN: Of course. What sort of a man doesn’t carry a trowel?
I was looking forward to “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship” with the same eagerness that I looked forward to watching Snakes on a Plane – which is to say, not at all. Frankly, my deeply held belief is …

Written by: Steven Moffat
Directed by: Farren Blackburn
UK Airdate: Sunday, 25th December 2011
In Short: Sometimes wishes come true and the Doctor turns up for Christmas.�
Recommended? Hell, yes.
THE DOCTOR: So you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.
MADGE: Please my love; please, please, just run.
THE DOCTOR: Can’t.
If there is one thing that can be said about Steven Moffat’s take on Doctor Who Christmas Specials it is that he definitely has a talent for bringing a sense of magic to them. Well, that and combining classic literature with …