‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “A Christmas Carol”
Doctor Who has been doing amazing things with TV since 2005, but this may be the best example yet of how gonzo and how simultaneously emotionally satisfying TV can be these days.
Doctor Who has been doing amazing things with TV since 2005, but this may be the best example yet of how gonzo and how simultaneously emotionally satisfying TV can be these days.
It’s gonna be tough to expand on this set when Matt Smith finally gets tired of running down corridors and retires to a life of convention-guesting…
Tor.com, the blog of the science fiction book publisher, has embarked upon a holiday-week series paying tribute to our favorite Time Lord…
They do not, it must be said, sing it very well. But it’s amusing anyway…
What is it about Christmas and Daleks? Is there some Yuletide connection with Skaro that I’ve missed all these years? What on Earth — or beyond — would inspire this?
Because who wouldn’t want to spend Christmas with a Dalek? They’re so cuddly. I know I always think of mistletoe and eggnog and Christmas crackers when I hear that friendly cry of “Exterminate! Exterminate!”
That’s right: more than one. Fannish minds think alike, I guess.
The graphics are fun, the music is great, and there’s even lots of silly dialogue between the running away from Cybermen and Daleks…
’Twas the week before Christmas / And all ’cross the Web / The geeks were all waiting / For new ‘Who’ from the, er, Beeb
Doctor Who is, it seems, like Star Trek was in the 1960s: an inspiration to young scientists looking to turn science fiction into science fact.