Doctor Who thing: Steven Moffat threatens fans, wants to keep a lid on 50th-anniv promos
Comic-Con audience got two trailers, but no one else can see them (yet). What could possibly be the benefit to withholding trailers like this?
Charlie Jane Anders
Doctor Who thing of the day: Inspector Spacetime gets real
The sendup/parody from Community is coming soon (hopefully) as a fan-made Web series…
Doctor Who thing of the day: a BBC TV drama about the creation of Doctor Who?
Is Mark Gatiss writing a drama about the creation of Doctor Who in 1963? His nondenial denials are certainly intriguing…
Doctor Who thing of the day: a neverending parade of creative reinvention
Charlie Jane Anders at io9 runs down the “10 Totally Different TV Shows that Doctor Who Has Been Over the Years”…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Nicholas Courtney — aka Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart — has died
It’s a sad day in Doctor Who fandom: actor Nicholas Courtney, who played the beloved character Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, has died. UNIT commander Lethbridge-Stewart was one of the show’s most iconic characters, and Courtney was the longest-running actor in the show’s history…
what she said: io9’s Charlie Jane Anders…
…on what to call an overload of CGI (in commenting on Predators) It’s a minor miracle to see an action movie in which the action feels organic, and it’s not just a flatulence of CG. (By the way, that’s officially the plural term for a lot of CG, or several CG effects in one place … more…
‘Lost’: the ultimate long con
Charlie Jane Anders at io9 mostly sums up my reaction to the Lost finale (also under discussion here) in a post entitled “Lost was the ultimate long con”: In the end, it’s hard not to see Lost as the longest con of them all. Not because we didn’t get enough answers – it’s really true … more…
the beauty of a bad film
That beauty? The creativity of film critics reaching to new heights of metaphor and poetry in our attempts to encapsulate just how the experience of a bad film impacted us. At the moment, that bad film that is inspiring so much cleverness is, of course, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I wish I’d come up … more…
