10 out of 11 Doctors...

Yet another Doc Who post.

I just posted this over at Denton Rock City in response to a question regarding how I felt about the choice of Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

There's definitely some Peter Davidson + David Tennant action going on. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm">Here's an interview .

You know I had reservations about both choices for the last two Doctors and they were unfounded. I think this guy looks the part, I just wonder why they cast a similar type right after Tennant. I heard rumors that they were gonna cast the bad guy from Serenity, and think that that would have been a good idea. The pattern has always been to cast opposite from the last Doctor.

1 - grumpy old man
2 - hobo/clown
3 - dashing man of action
4 - eccentric hippy type w/bouts of melancholy
5 - sensitive young man
6 - slightly sinister and deranged
7 - clownish manipulator
8 - Byronesque Romatic
9 - no-nonsense working-class street type
10 - cool school teacher-dandy
11 - ? not sure how they're gonna play him yet


I think this guy could be good, but maybe after another guy's run who could really distance the series from the strong presence of David Tennant. Anyway, with Stephen Moffett at the helm, I have faith that the next series will be solid and my reservations will be proven wrong.


I think way too much about this stuff.

Doctor Mew

Doctor Who... cats? by ~TardisCat on deviantART

I know! I know! Not another Doc Who post. I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist. It is rare to find a work of art where two great nerd obsessions come together in such a perfect and beautiful way. So for those of you who love both cats and that renegade Time Lord from Gallifrey - here is your dream come true.

Thank you TardisCat. Thank you.

More Who Nerdiness

I am currently on Christmas break from teaching and am spending my first week off doing preety much nothing but stuff I enjoy. I've been watching tv, reading non-school related material, and making stuff. I'm currently working on a new album cover for my band, a Franeknstein's monster statue for Rhonda, and today I worked on two pieces of Doctor Who related fan art. The first is a watercolor of all 10 Doctors that will take me a while. The other is a little pop art inspired banner I threw together for fun.

Re-TARDIS

I've been a Doctor Who since the mid-80s when KERA in Dallas began airing the Tom Baker episodes on Saturday nights. They eventually aired the the 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th Doctors, but did not air the early 60s episodes, at least through the early 90s. Despite my huge fandom of DW, I've only seen a handful of early episodes over the years via video, although I did read every single Target novelization while still in high school.

Anyway, my plan is to slog through every single DW episode from "An Unearthly Chld" through the end of the Sylvest McCoy era via the magic of Netflix. I was watching the first disc of the Early Years set (includes the first 3 serials) and stumbled upon a series of skits that aired in 199 on the BBC in conjunction with "Doctor Who Night" (am I dreaming?). They were created by some of the guys responsible for Little Brittain, and are quite funny. The skit below is probably the best, and probably my favorite Doctor Who parody period.

The Pitch of Fear

Doctor Uke

The Doctor Who theme play on ukelele. The two great tastes that taste great together.

Ten out of Ten Doctors...

A comix artist named Rich has created a surprisingly good Doctor Who fan comic featuring all ten Doctors. The art and the story are both very good, and are in some ways more entertaining than the last season of DW.

Rest in peace, Arthur C. Clarke

There were two major authors that completely consumed by brain from about the ages of 10 to 14 - Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke. Ray Bradbury showed me that there was something beautiful, scary, and poetic in almost everything around me, while Clarke taught me about potential.

Almost everything that guy wrote was about how we could achieve anything we wanted as a species as long as we just rolled up our sleeves and got to work. Nothing happens to any character in a Clarke novel if they just sit on their hands. His heroes are always people who think big, question everything, and look ahead. Unfortunately, it is our inability as a race to live up to Clarke's vision that I am so disappointed in the world right now. I feel that we're asking all the wrong questions, setting all the wrong goals, and simply not applying ourselves. We could be achieving greatness, but instead we're fighting over whose god is better than the other.

In spite of this, I refuse to give up hope. It is because of people like Arthur C. Clarke that I cling to one last shred of optimism. He never gave up on us, so I guess I can't either.

Space is the Place

Ain't it Cool News has a piece on a really interestingly looking documentary called Future by Design about architect, designer, and scientist Jacques Fresco who designs Utopian cities that look like 1950s visions of the future.


This film looks amazing to me as I grew up looking at the work of artists like Don Davis, pictured above, who created a vision of the future so exciting to my 8-year-old brain, that I couldn't wait until the year 1995 when I could live in a space colony orbiting the planet. Needless to say I'm more than a little disappointed in the progress made in that area. I'm just happy to see that there are still people in the world like Mr. Fresco who still have that wide-eyed kind of vision about the future that fueled so much of my formative years.