If you've been lucky enough to watch the fairly fun Fourth Doctor episode Pyramids of Mars then you'll be familar with the the great antagonist Sutekh.
I'd love to see the Osirans make a repeat appearance in new Who... even Sutekh!
But Sutekh actually had quite a life before and after Doctor Who.
Any way I can find him!
I had forgotten I'd snagged some figures for super cheap at the Toy Show last week. That little wind storm thing kind took my mind off them.
I guess the fact I was putzing around with Skid-Z the other day made me realize I had so many variations of the mold... but the original! Can't go wrong for $2.50/each either.
The various G2 and reissue Cyberjets were all like $1.30 or something each too and I don't think I ever had any originals of those. Just many many many repaint versions.
One great thing I found, rather randomly I might add, is a Dapol Cyberman action figure from the 80s.
I didn't even know they made any figures back then.
I also snagged one of those reissue B.A.T.figures off a guy but it appears Hoop found some finally. Anybody want a B.A.T. I paid way too much for?
While somewhat repetitive, since pretty much everything that can be written about Who has been written about Who, this is an enjoyable pre-sleep read.
It is with mucho balls of awesomeness that I share with you my great joy and happiness in acquring the First Doctor story The Time Meddler on DVD!
Not only did I get First Doctor goodness in a comic book the other week, I got me some First Doctor surviving episode goodness and sucked it up and loved it!
In the previous story, the last of the original companions, Barbara and Ian, have made their way back to 1965 Earth and we are now left with Vicki traveling with the Doctor. And they discover that there's a stowaway aboard the TARDIS from the previous episdeo The Chase.
Yup! As a companion leaves a new one quickly takes his/her place in Who and Steven is now a companion.
And with this story we get the very first appearance of another Time Lord... though such names really don't exist yet within the Whoniverse.
The Meddling Monk is introduced here trying to... well... "meddle" with English history in 1066. Cause ya know... if your name is the Meddling Monk you gotsta meddle in something.
Anyway, this is also the first time we get to see another TARDIS too! With a working chameleon circuit to boot.
Lotsa bad crazy Viking and proto-English running around in on sets too.
I totally loved it!!! But then again, I take what First Doctor goodness as I can because there ain't much of it left!
Thankfully, the Monk will reappear in the mostly lost The Dalek's Master Plan and the Doctor will totally fuck with him again.
And because of the way that story ends, would could conclude that The Meddling Monk was likely to have survived the Time War.
At least I hope so.
I so would love a regenerated Monk who comes back as say The Crazy Vicar or the Uproarious Rabbi. I think every regeneration would be some other variation on clergy.
Man... with the right casting of a decent comedian, you could get a lot of mileage out of him now!
While the The Master is the Doctor's Lex Luthor... the Crazy Vicar would be more of the Doctor's Mister Mxyztplk.
Please Steven Moffat... please... let me work on your new Who... pretty please... and a pointless Coupling/Who crossover!!!
If I can make the Transformers and Knots Landing work together, I can make anything work together!
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On a side note, I'm really pissed I'll never be able to see The Myth Makers. Damn you 1970s BBC! Damn you all to hell!
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And that brings me to the Fifth Doctor story Black Orchid.
There isn't enough percocet or alcohol in the world to make me forget these awful 1980's Who stories I've seen.
This is an unusual story because it is only 2-parts, a rarity for Who up to that point, but man oh man is it an awful example of Who in general.
It feels like the BBC had a bunch of costumes they were going to throw out and Who needed a cheap epsisode and this was how they did it.
As we were watching it, I was actually predicting each story movement and was pretty much right on. It is that bad!
And also, quality acting and dialog from Adric too! His being eaten by the dinosaurs won't come soon enough!
These are the f'n most awesomest children's costumes ever!
If I was lucky enough to have various spawns from my loins running around the House of Love IV I guarantee you'd they'd all be dressed as Daleks for Halloween!
Hell... I'd dress up as a Roboman even. (Though I'd make Giga dress up as one of those silly pig slaves from 2 season's ago.)
Oh... and speaking of something else not Transformers-related... run to your nearest purveyor of paper crack and pick up Doctor Who: The Forgotten #1!
I'm not a fan of Who comics by any means but this mini-series first issue has First Doctor goodness in it!!! And next issues... oh yeah baby... the Second Doctor!!!
I'm all over this shit!
(Thanks to Hoop for posting the costume awesomeness!)
You know something?
Screw it!
Not only do I want Susan back!
I want John and Gillian made canon and I want Kroton and Frobisher too!
Kroton would totally work in a couple-parter in the new Who! And Frobisher, which technically more expensive to do, would be great in a minor role. Kid's would totally eat this shit up! (So would I!)
And think about it... if the Gallifreyans and Time Lords are all supposedly extinct, what irony that the only Gallifreyans that (somehow) exist other than the Doctor are his grandchildren, who have to essentially recreate the race.
There's so much awesomeness to bring in from the non-TV material!
C'mon BBC... c'mon Steven Moffat... I know you've got the balls!!!
I quadruple dog dare you!
Well.
After watching it twice, I'm still not sure about this week's Series 4 finale Journey's End.
However, when it comes down to it, the resolution at the end is quite possibly the cruelest and most horrible fate that a has happened to a companion in the 45 years of the show.
Yes. It was worse than what happened to Katarina (being blasted out of an airlock), Adric (being eaten by dinosaurs), or maybe/maybe not companion Sarah Kingdom (disintegration).
Death would have been preferable.
*spoilers ahead*
All I gotta say is if the BBC pulls another f'n big ass Star Trek reset button next week (like they did last series) I'm gonna be pissed as hell.
Yes. I will!
With that said...
*possible spoilers ahead*
Trailer for tonight's UK episode of Doctor Who. US won't get this for about 3 weeks.
Spoiler warnings obviously apply if you haven't been keeping up.
Unfortunately, a character returns that I really have never been able to stand.
And from an office somewhere between Ohio State University and Beechwold... there was much rejoicing from a cubicle!!!
This is probably the best news for the franchise that could happen.
Quite frankly, every episode he's scripted for the past 4 series has pretty much been the best episodes of the revitalized Who (in this geek's opinion).
And now, hopefully that'll spill over into the general series as a whole.
Who - Davies + Moffat = higher quality storytelling and 500% less gay innuendo!!!
Quite possibly the greatest desktop wallpaper graphic of off f'n time!!!
Yes he's back. Back again. The Doctor's back. Tell a friend!
It is with great joy and happiness that The Doctor is back on the air!
*spoilers*
Now some of you may have heard that Sci-fi actually got their asses out of their heads this time around and will be airing the new season of Doctor Who starting in April which will only be a week or two off from the BBC1 debut.
However, and this is the balls shocker... they picked up The Sarah Jane Adventures too!
I just didn't think it would happen at all.
The Sarah Jane Adventures, even aimed at a younger audience, is a thousand times better than the balls sucking stink pile that is Torchwood.
So Battlestar Galactica starts up again April 4. Sarah Jane starts April 11 and I believe that new Who will begin on April 18.
I think those'll fill my Futurama emptiness.
S'gonna be one helluva spring time on the tellie!
Just a shout out and thanks to all the geeks who emailed me various means to watch this week's Doctor Who Christmas special Voyage of the Damned.
I loves me some new Who and this will definitely hold me over for a few more months.
Voyage of the Damned continues the fun of the yearly Christmas special and may actually be the best one so far. Definitely much better than last year's The Runaway Bride.
While I had absolutely no idea who Kylie Minogue was prior to her appearance here, she was pretty good and not a bad bit of tail.
Also, making a return appearance to Who after many decades was the good old long suffering husband of Hyacinth Bucket, aka actor Clive Swift.
This year's generic holiday "army" was The Host, a bunch of evil-programmed robot angels that have more than a passing resemblance to the robots from The Robots of Death.
On the whole, it was a fun little episode where over 1995 or so people die high above the planet earth.
That's Christmas for you.
So, if you are a Who fan, the trailer for this Christmas' "Voyage of the Damned" special is up at the Beeb's site.
Click on Day 14 of the calendar.
And then I got the email forward...
Doctor Who: The Seeds of DeathOh yeah!Sent to: Giga
Arriving on or around: Saturday, Dec 15, 2007
Best news I've read all day!
The chance to see new (well, very old actually) Second Doctor stories is the bestest thing in the world.
***spoiler in link***
I'm usually totally excited about Doctor Who.
I mean... sure there have been a few duds in the new series but on the whole the good outweights the bad.
But this news is about as lackluster as I could ever imagine.
This story and character played out. Why return to it when there's a universe of infinite storytelling out there to explore.
*sigh*
I came across Rich Morris' Doctor Who: The Ten Doctors comic today and damn if I wouldn't buy small PVCs or even full action figures sculpted in his style!
The script has the right vibe and characterization for each of the Doctor's and he's style is quirky but totally sums up the Doctors and the companions pretty damn spot-on!
One and Ten
Two and Seven
Ten and Nine
Five, Turlough and Tegan
And look at his Mel...
That's a great Mel.
And I hate Mel only a bit less than I hate Peri so that's saying something!
When I look at this comic I totally see this as the Who version of Transformers: Animated.
I would so end up buying every single damn toy made off this guy's designs.
Eight minutes of super mega fun!
There's a great meta awareness to it all too. Moffat gets to actually Mary Sue himself in at the last minute.
And you know what?
That's perfectly ok!
So this morning I got an email totally out of the blue from Tom, one of my favoritest Gay Robot Conventioneers of all time. (Damn... conventioneer does sound pretty gay doesn't it?)
Apparently, he just got the Series 3 Doctor Who set and finally watched it.
You may recall my dire spoiler warnings to Tom in this past summer's award winning film "Nala's Jack Daniels-fueled Doctor Who Rant".
Damn! I haven't drank like that since... well... since Botcon. Funny how knowing I don't have to drive anywhere and knowing I don't have a care in the world other than dropping money down on liquor and plastic toys really tends to make me drink like that once a year.
Anyway, Tom liked Series 3 and apparently I didn't spoil much which is good.
He pointed me to a cheezy t-shirt that I'd never wear but that is just obscure enough to tweak my geek responder.
I think that "Blink", the episode where that line comes from, has got to be my all-time favorite modern Who story rivaling "The Mind Robber" and "Birthday Party Of The Daleks".
Ok. I've got to get my Who geek mode on and type up an email to Tom.
Happy Diwali to all my Hindu, Sihk, and Jain readers!
So whilst doing my morning geek blog reading I was surprised to find out that the Sontarans will obviously be making their first modern era appearance in the next series of Doctor Who.
Now I could take or leave them.
But I wants me some Silurians and Sea Devils!!!
C'mon Beeb! Gimme some modern Sea Devils action!
