September 2015 – Page 4 – RazorFine Review

Doctor Who – The Magician’s Apprentice

Alan Rapp / September 21, 2015 / Television Reviews

Title: Doctor Who – The Magician’s Apprentice
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“If someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives could you then kill that child?”

Time travel is tricky. One of most commonly discussed issues with the ability to travel backwards it time and alter the future is the Hitler Paradox which debates both the morality and ability of killing someone before they grow into a fascist dictator with genocidal tendencies. The crux of that argument is at the heart of “The Magician’s Apprentice” opening with The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) naturally reaching out to help a scared child lost in the middle of a battlefield. However, learning the child’s name will force The Doctor to make an uncharacteristic decision which will bring the series full circle and cause The Doctor to return to face the creator of his most deadly adversaries one last time.

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Doctor Who – The Doctor’s Meditation

Alan Rapp / September 20, 2015 / Television Reviews

Title: Doctor Who – The Doctor’s Meditation
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Teasing the show’s Ninth Season premiere, “The Doctor’s Meditation” is a short six-minute episode that finds The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) in Camelot doing what he can to avoid confronting both an old adversary and one of the Time Lord’s least proud moments of all his 13 lifetimes. Sequestering himself for the purpose of meditation before the upcoming confrontation, The Doctor quickly wearies and finds ways to distract himself first by getting Bors (Daniel Hoffmann-Gill) and some of the other locals to dig several new (and faulty) wells near the castle and finally relenting to a retaliatory party to celebrate the Time Lord’s long life.

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Foxes – Better Love

Alan Rapp / September 19, 2015 / Music News & Reviews

Song: “Better Love”
Artist: Foxes

Here’s English singer-songwriter Foxes with the official video for “Better Love,” the second single from her upcoming 2016 album All I Need.

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Usagi Yojimbo #148

Alan Rapp / September 19, 2015 / Comics

Usagi Yojimbo #148
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Writer: Stan Sakai
Artist: Stan Sakai

One lazy autumn day Miyamoto Usagi‘s travels lead him to a small town where he encounters a one-armed ronin Mizuna Takashi. Saving the talented swordsman from an ambush on the road by a group of thieves, the two spend a short time together as Usagi learns the fellow’s tragic tale before they part as friends. Months later another choice encounter brings him upon both Takashi and the villainous Te, the samurai responsible for the loss of Takashi’s sword hand.