{"id":1965,"date":"2011-09-19T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2011-09-19T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T14:27:55","slug":"reviews-of-the-god-complex-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/09\/reviews-of-the-god-complex-and-more.html","title":{"rendered":"Reviews of The God Complex and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There has been a fair bit of interest and discussion in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/09\/17\/doctor-who-the-god-complex-and-the-complex-god\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">my post on the most recent Doctor Who episode, \u201cThe God Complex.\u201d<\/a> Here are some other reviews and blog reflections on the episode that I\u2019m aware of:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cymbal-rush.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/doctorwho6x11-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"130\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theoncominghope.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/doctor-who-god-complex-aka-characters.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheOncomingHope+%28The+Oncoming+Hope%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Oncoming Hope \u00a0God Complex aka The Characters Uncomplex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nickdefig.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/18\/the-doctor-and-the-minotaur\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stuff and Conscience \u00a0The Doctor and the Minotaur<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5841387\/doctor-who-the-hero-takes-a-fall\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 \u00a0Dr. Who: The Hero Takes a Fall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/igp-scifi.com\/2011\/09\/dr-who-review-the-god-complex\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Inter-Galaxy Portal Review of The God Complex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fat-train.com\/2011\/09\/doctor-who-god-complex-first-thoughts.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">See also the post at Fat Train which points out something I hadn\u2019t noticed: Matt Smith played the Clown! Whose room would have had the Doctor as a clown in it?!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the blogosphere, Rod of Alexandria has added posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaljesus.com\/2011\/09\/16\/james-mcgraths-religion-and-science-fiction-chapter-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">chapter 2<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaljesus.com\/2011\/09\/19\/james-mcgraths-religion-and-science-fiction-chapter-3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">chapter 3<\/a> of <em>Religion and Science Fiction<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5841183\/the-star-wars-blu+ray-set-gets-35-out-of-5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 has a review of the Star Wars complete saga on Blu-Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a fair bit of interest and discussion in response to my post on the most recent Doctor Who episode, \u201cThe God Complex.\u201d Here are some other reviews and blog reflections on the episode that I\u2019m aware of: The Oncoming Hope \u00a0God Complex aka The Characters Uncomplex Stuff and Conscience \u00a0The Doctor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,80,86,91],"tags":[2765,4008,10169,10306,10885,10890,11822],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-religion","category-science-fiction","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-doctor-who","tag-god-complex","tag-religion","tag-reviews","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-wars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reviews of The God Complex and More<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There has been a fair bit of interest and discussion in response to my post on the most recent Doctor Who episode, &quot;The God Complex.&quot; Here are some other\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/09\/reviews-of-the-god-complex-and-more.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reviews of The God Complex and More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There has been a fair bit of interest and discussion in response to my post on the most recent Doctor Who episode, &quot;The God Complex.&quot; Here are some other\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/09\/reviews-of-the-god-complex-and-more.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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