Friday, 10 July 2015
Doctor Who panel at Comic Con
Steven Moffat, Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Michelle Gomez discuss the year ahead, the Doctor's attitude, rubber spiders and more.
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Dimensions In Lego
Peter Capaldi as the Lego Doctor in the Lego Dimensions video game, as he and Clara team up with Batman, Gandalf and Wildstyle. And Doc Brown. And Homer Simpson. And...
Wednesday, 8 July 2015
One Minute Time Machine
Like a save point for the real world - a time machine that takes you back one minute, and no further. Far enough to redo an awkward conversation, for one thing. NSFW language. (Coming from Jimmy from NCIS of all people!)
See also Life Is Strange for a more serious examination of the issues and possibilities such small-scale time travel can bring up.
See also Life Is Strange for a more serious examination of the issues and possibilities such small-scale time travel can bring up.
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
The Third Doctor and Ultraman
Today is the birthday of Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor, and as a big interactive Google Doodle celebrates, and Eiji Tsuburaya, special effects master of Godzilla and creator of Ultraman. (And also Rose Bailey, sometime contributor to this blog and the Doctor in a PBP game I once ran!)
I suspect that the Third Doctor and Ultraman would have gotten on pretty well. Both great scientists using their advanced knowledge - and martial arts skills - to defend the nations they lived on from a variety of terrifying and somewhat rubbery monsters.
For instance, this handsome devil is Mefilas, whose motive for invading Earth is to show other aliens that he can do it better than they can. Now there’s a UNIT story waiting to happen. And his plan was to trick a representative human into trading the planet away, which sounds better than many. The original episode title The Forbidden Words would totally work too...
I suspect that the Third Doctor and Ultraman would have gotten on pretty well. Both great scientists using their advanced knowledge - and martial arts skills - to defend the nations they lived on from a variety of terrifying and somewhat rubbery monsters.
For instance, this handsome devil is Mefilas, whose motive for invading Earth is to show other aliens that he can do it better than they can. Now there’s a UNIT story waiting to happen. And his plan was to trick a representative human into trading the planet away, which sounds better than many. The original episode title The Forbidden Words would totally work too...
Friday, 3 July 2015
Back To Back To The Future
Back To The Future was first released thirty years ago today. Of course, the most significant date in 2015 is October 21st, when Doc and Marty arrive to help his not-yet-conceived children and he acquires a hoverboard. (Still waiting...) Anyway, the original is pointedly filled with 1950s nostalgia while also undermining plenty of it, while the 80s still looks fairly normal apart from the bodywarmer. Compare retro-80s stories being made now. And plenty of then-modern 50s films, for that matter. How do you evoke an era without overdoing it?
Saturday, 27 June 2015
Big Finish Classic Doctors, New Monsters... and River Song!
Big Finish brings the Weeping Angels, Judoon, and Sycorax (and the new Sontarans) to face Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
The pairing of the Judoon against Six seems like a comfortable fit - shouty and authoritarian versus shouty and anti-authoritarian. The Sycorax have the right creepy vibe for Seven, although the Weeping Angels were my choice when I imagined such meetings five years ago(!) - they might be tricky in audio, however...
And... River Song as well. So yes, their licence has changed a bit.
I imagine David Tennant is waiting by the phone.
The pairing of the Judoon against Six seems like a comfortable fit - shouty and authoritarian versus shouty and anti-authoritarian. The Sycorax have the right creepy vibe for Seven, although the Weeping Angels were my choice when I imagined such meetings five years ago(!) - they might be tricky in audio, however...
And... River Song as well. So yes, their licence has changed a bit.
I imagine David Tennant is waiting by the phone.
Friday, 26 June 2015
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Photos from Waterloo
Okay, technically photos of 5000 reenactors getting together to mark the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, but still...
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Waterloo
Two hundred years ago, the Napoleonic era ended pretty decisively. The Telegraph describes the Battle of Waterloo as it happened in this timeline.
The Guardian counts down the top ten fictional characters taking part in their own versions from Byron’s Childe Harold just a year later to Jonathan Strange causing the rain ten years ago and on TV last Sunday.
The Doctor has met various people involved but so far stayed off the battlefield himself.
The Guardian counts down the top ten fictional characters taking part in their own versions from Byron’s Childe Harold just a year later to Jonathan Strange causing the rain ten years ago and on TV last Sunday.
The Doctor has met various people involved but so far stayed off the battlefield himself.
Monday, 15 June 2015
Magna Carta
Today is the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, the first bill of rights, a sufficiently big deal that there are events marking it, an animated Google Doodle (I would totally watch this cartoon), films on the subject, and the Master tried to steal it.
Thursday, 11 June 2015
A photo of the cast shooting for the new series inspires a joke
I will place said image behind a spoiler wall though it spoils little for it is still a vision of the future.
Friday, 5 June 2015
Women's World Cup 2015
A new Google Doodle shows the start of the 2015 Women’s World Cup, hosted in Canada, while FIFA is in... some trouble. This is a less commercially overblown show than the male equivalent, so it could generate some good publicity.
Football’s main effect on Doctor Who was usually an overrunning Grandstand delaying the occasional episode, until Matt Smith took over the role. Having been near a professional football career himself, his footwork in The Lodger was all him. (This was after the Tenth Doctor did it in the DWM comics, and that in turn followed The Nightmare Game for the Eighth Doctor being influenced equally by Roy Of The Rovers and The Thing.)
Still, the Doctor likes a big show. A Worlds Cup wouldn’t seem out of place.
Football’s main effect on Doctor Who was usually an overrunning Grandstand delaying the occasional episode, until Matt Smith took over the role. Having been near a professional football career himself, his footwork in The Lodger was all him. (This was after the Tenth Doctor did it in the DWM comics, and that in turn followed The Nightmare Game for the Eighth Doctor being influenced equally by Roy Of The Rovers and The Thing.)
Still, the Doctor likes a big show. A Worlds Cup wouldn’t seem out of place.
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Steven Moffat on changing the Time War
New DWM! And comments from Steven Moffat getting into the genre newsfeeds, such as io9.
“My defence, however feeble, is that given the chance, the Doctor would do exactly that.”
“My defence, however feeble, is that given the chance, the Doctor would do exactly that.”
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