‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: John Simm voted Saxon
Wherein John Simm proves he’s cooler than all of us via his wardrobe choices. Not to mention his choice of acting roles…
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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: quiz show gets ‘DW’ answer wrong, but no one knows the actual answer
The question was: Which actor has played the Doctor the longest? The answer is, well, kinda timey-whimey…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith on Craig Ferguson?
The Internet has been abuzz with the news that Matt Smith will appear on CBS’s The Late Late Show, hosted by Craig Ferguson, on November 16. However, Smith is not listed as a guest for that night. Perhaps that’s merely a temporary oversight?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: build your own Weeping Angel costume
Fan and costumer penwipe shares how she created her Weeping Angel costume for DragonCon at Replica Prop Forum… and offers a peek at whom she got to strangle (in character) at the con…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: beautiful minimalist posters, now for your wall
Remember those gorgeous graphic posters by French artist Karma Orange I featured back in August? Now you can download hi-res files for printing yourself, to hang on your very own actual, nonvirtual walls…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: a bit of the extras from the Season 5 DVD set
Matt Smith’s video diary from the set shows that he really is an adorable dork about this Doctor Who job of his…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith wants a talking parrot companion
From celeb gossip site Now: New Doctor Who star Matt Smith has decided the Time Lord needs a new assistant – ideally, a bird. The actor got his inspiration from a pirates sequence in the film Pink Panther starring Peter Sellers. ‘I think with this Doctor, you never know what he’s going to do or … more…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Christmas special will be fast-tracked internationally
Can’t wait for the return of the Doctor at Christmastime? Nope, none of us can… and it seems that the BBC is beginning to catch on that the show is popular enough outside the U.K. that concerns about piracy are becoming a factor in its scheduling….
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: homemade Dalek
What is it about Daleks that so inspires fannish imagination? I mean, for the longest time, for most of the 25-year span of the original iteration of the show, you could escape a Dalek merely by running up or down a flight of stairs. So why were they so riveting, even then?
question of the day: What are the most frightening episodes of ‘Doctor Who’?
I found a lot of the gothic Tom Baker stories pretty frightening: “The Seeds of Doom” was pretty creepy, with its body-conscious horror (the villain gets transformed into an alien plant). I still find something really unsettling about the immortals in the Peter Davison story “Enlightenment”: though they look entirely human, they have an eerie kind of calm about them that makes them feel way more alien than most of the guys in rubber suits have ever been.
