Big Chief Studios currently has Eleven out, with Amy Pond coming and Ten waiting for approval. As much as I'd love to get a 1:6 scale Ten, two things stop me. 1) The prototype is a great likeness of David Tennant as Ten, but he looks like he's been hit with a surprise bout of the runs. He should be smirking confidently, not looking as if something ( Read more... )

Exactly what it says on the tin. Zooooom zoooom zoooom weeee-ooooooooo! [Insert TARDIS noises here.]

This video, set to a Proclaimers song, just makes me so happy to see how much fun the cast and crew of David Tennant's Dr. Who run are having! Look at David Tennant's expressions when the Proclaimers themselves come on!

Watched the first two eps of the BBC’s Sherlock the other night, starring Benedict Cumberbatch’s lips and cheekbones as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson. The three-ep first season transplants the crime-solving duo from Victorian/Edwardian London to present-day London, where the two act as “consulting detectives” to Detective ( Read more... )

I just had the pleasure of watching the first 4-ep [back when eps were 30 minutes apiece] adventure with the Fourth Doctor of Dr. Who. That adventure, Robot, appeared in 1974 and involved a morally conflicted robot being manipulated by elitist geniuses to promote nuclear warfare on Earth. Given that the Doctor was played at this time by Tom Baker, ( Read more... )

I just watched 5.2 and 5.4, "The Beast Below" and "Time of the Angels." The latter appears to be the first part of a two-parter starring my favorite Dr. Who monsters, the Weeping Angels, who look like life-sized cemetery statues when one is looking at them, but transform into fanged killers when one doesn't look at them. I can't wait till the ( Read more... )

Matt Smith, as the eleventh Doctor, and Karen Gillan, as companion Amy Pond, blast off in the season 5 pilot of Dr. Who with an episode light on plot and actual information and heavy on loosey-goosey antics from the latest incarnation of the character, whose David Tennant form I liked better.

As the Doctor, Smith plays a bouncy, funny, nearly ( Read more... )

Just as each actor who plays the Doctor brings something new to the role and makes it a different show, so each person who plays a major companion of the Doctor's changes the balance of the show as well ( Read more... )

The constant succession of Doctors in the long-running BBC TV show Dr. Who allows for the show to expand, taking on a new main performer, even as elements of it remain familiar. Therefore, Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor in season 1 of the New Who makes Dr. Who a different show than does David Tennant in seasons 2-4 of the same show. Where Dr. ( Read more... )

After having sampled seasons 2, 3 and 4 of the new Dr. Who, with David Tennant as the Doctor and Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate playing companions, I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Who is a silly and wonderful show. It's playful and a lot of fun in a way that I haven't found too much TV to be.

At its best, Dr. Who is a paean ( Read more... )