I sent this link around to a few friends yesterday before realizing that, really, it needed to be shared further: Kathleen Jennings' Dalek cartoon game. My hands down favorite is this one; it probably should not give me the glee that it does, but something in Piglet's expression just gets me ( Read more... )

In case you missed the news, actress Elizabeth Sladen, best known as Sarah Jane from Doctor Who, died at the far too young age of 63 this morning.

Well, it speaks for itself, really:

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Matt Smith is still too young.

Thanks to Tor.com for the link.

From around the internet: the opening sequences of Doctor Who:

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What we learn from this, I think, is that Matt Smith is young. Very young. I mean, ok, we already knew that, but this just emphasizes the point. He's young.

Also, I am still all nostalgic for Christopher Eccleston.

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My mother is insisting that I show all of you this:

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(I will point out that sharing this with you all would have gone better had she initially sent me the YouTube link instead of a wmv file which did not feel like uploading.)

But I'm guessing many of you, and particularly the Doctor Who fans, will actually want to see this:

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So I finally had a chance to watch the first couple of episodes of the current season of Doctor Who. So far, I like Doctor Eleven, although he gives me a slight sense of - what is it? Ah, yes, disorientation. Because for the first time in on and off Doctor Who watching going back to about 1983, when I did not like the show at all (sorry, classic ( Read more... )

So the internet - or at least the geekier portions of it - has been happily buzzing over the rumours-now-confirmed that the exceedingly hot Paterson Joseph has been cast as the next Doctor Who, apparently solely to ensure that kellirose1313 and I have sufficient eye candy in our Doctor Who viewing. (May I suggest to the Doctor Who writers is that they spend ( Read more... )

So, well after the rest of you, I finally got around to watching Doctor Who: Journey's End. My ( spoilery comments: )

So box_in_the_box directed me to this fascinating piece showing the changing radicalism/conservativism politics of Doctor Who over time.

The way current politics and beliefs and arguments become framed in fiction and art constantly fascinates me, whether in the obvious, overt way (24, The West Wing, the current incarnation of Battlestar Galatica) or the ( Read more... )

From alexjay, a robotic Dalek pumpkin. Seriously. Also, a reminder that Daleks prefer iPods.

And from multiple sources this morning, but blondeheroine posted it first: Dumbledore is gay.

I have more to say, but must get sleep or coffee first. Quite possibly both.