{"id":11373,"date":"2007-09-10T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/09\/10\/doctor-who-family-of-blood.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T04:55:00","slug":"doctor_who_family_of_bloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/doctor_who_family_of_bloo.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who:<\/i> “Family of Blood”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I cannot — will not — do any spoilers for “Family of Blood<\/a>,” but, set up by the first part (“Human Nature”), it’s the best Doctor Who <\/em>episode evah <\/em>(or at least to-date).  Dramatic, humorous, creepy, gut-wrenching, tear-jerking, unearthly, bloody, thrilling, utterly kick-ass.<\/p>\n

I’ve entertained doubts about David Tennant as the Doctor — fun fellow, but not bringing nearly the drama that Christopher Eccleston did — but this episode cleared them all up.  Bravo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot — will not — do any spoilers for “Family of Blood,” but, set up by the first part (“Human Nature”), it’s the best Doctor Who episode evah…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/spoilers-sweetie.html","url_meta":{"origin":11373,"position":0},"title":"Spoilers, sweetie","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Feb-13 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, every time I watch the Doctor Who episodes \"Silence of the Library\" \/ \"Forest of the Dead\" (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silence_in_the_Library) , the higher they rise in my estimation. 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