Rory Doherty

Rory Doherty is a writer and screenwriter based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He loves diving into speculative fiction and unraveling the emotional relationships we build with film and TV and has done so for Vulture, Little White Lies, Paste Magazine, The Escapist, and more.

Rory lives in Scotland. You can find him on Twitter, where he spends most of his days complaining about story structure and explaining to friends which Star Trek series is best.

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“I think the film series should stop with Messiah.”

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If you can't overthrow the system, then you need to break it.

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The devil’s in the details.

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'Doctor Who’s Cheapest Episode Gave Us One of The Scariest Hours of TV

At its most low-budget, Doctor Who managed to deliver its most underrated horror episode.

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TV

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In attempting to course-correct, the two shows are floundering.

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