Archive | May 2013
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The beautiful scars that save
“What’s that?” “What is the light?” “It’s beautiful!” Doctor: “The tracks of my tears . . . Time travel is damage, like a tear in the fabric of reality. That is the scar tissue of my journey through the universe, my path through time and space, from Gallifrey to Trenzalor. . . My own personal […]
It takes the Doctor to show you how brilliant you are
What would happen if Donna never met the Doctor? How would Earth handle the Racnoss, the falling Titanic or the Sontarans? In this episode Turn Left (Series 4/11), the question is answered. Aided by a familiar blonde time traveller back from a parallel universe (Rose), Donna travels through time to stop the alternate time line […]
The difficulties of a Time Lord’s Timeline
Just sharing a fun pic that captures the timey-wimey nature of Doctor Who (last series).
My times are in your hands…
‘There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.…’ I include this here for a couple of reasons. First, purely for nostalgia’s sake (before the Doctor appeared in Australia in 1965 we kids found our chills in The Twilight Zone as well as in The […]
Consumed by the WiFi
Doctor: There’s something in the WiFi . . . this whole world is swimming in WiFi . . . we’re living in a WiFi soup! Suppose something got inside it, suppose there was something living in the WiFi, harvesting human minds, extracting. . . imagine that! Human souls trapped like flies in the world wide […]
Doctor who?….will the Time Lord ever jump the shark?
Originally posted on sermons and soda water:
Around 1997 an American radio personality, Jon Hein, suggested that, sooner or later, every television series, however successful, would inevitably decline in creativity and popularity. The point at which this decline began he called, ‘jumping the shark’… He came up with the idea after watching the premiere…
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