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Lookee what popped up on the Intertubes while I was unconscious yesterday! The first trailer for Season 7 (or Season 33, if we’re counting all the seasons since 1963) of Doctor Who…

Not much, but still nice. Wondering if they filmed this Western-ish episode back in the U.S., like last year’s mind-blowing “The Impossible Astronaut”/”Day of the Moon” two-parter.

And doesn’t that town look more than a smidgeon like Hill Valley circa 1885 from Back To The Future Part III? Maybe we’re gonna finally get that Doctor/Marty McFly fight that we’ve always fantasized about…...

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Working on a few things behind the scenes, but felt like posting something tonight. And that’s when I discovered that YouTube is hosting Threads.

Sure, why not.

I first saw this movie in July of 1986 but it wasn’t until I was in college a long time later that I found out the title. We were visiting family in Florida and playing a game of Monopoly in our motel room with my cousins and we thought we’d put some TV on. It was a PBS station showing… some very dark and gritty film about nuclear war in England.

I was 12 years old. I soon lost all interest in Monopoly and became transfixed to this film. The image of the young woman chewing through her newborn baby’s umbilical cord is something that has haunted me to this day.

Threads originally aired on BBC Two in Great Britain in September ...

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Last month this year’s series of Doctor Who arrived at one hum-dinger of a mid-season cliffhanger.

So you wanna see some of where the rest of the season is going? Check this out, courtesy of the BBC…

Doctor Who returns on August 27th. And I can’t wait!! Well, I guess I’ll have to but, you know… 😛

Speaking of the Whoniverse, I haven’t watched the rest of them yet but I did catch the first episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. Am waiting for my girlfriend to come over some weekend so we can watch the rest together (no, not gonna take a peek at them without her to share it with :-). But I have watched that first episode a number of times now and, it’s some of the best Who-ish material that Russell T. Davies has done since he was the revived series’ first showrunner in 2005. Looking ...

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The last episode of Doctor Who until September aired just over an hour ago on BBC America. Titled “A Good Man Goes To War” and…

GREAT GOOGLEDY MOOBELY that was six scoops of crazy with sprinkles on top!

This show, might be finally coming into its fullest potential after nearly half a century since it premiered. This one hour of Doctor Who had more mythology packed into it than any episode in recent memory. Hey, it even had the classic Cybermen: as in the Mondas originals, not those stoopid Cybus Industries brand-name losers from the other universe.

And then, the real intensity got poured on and ratcheted up a notch or twenty.

Sooo now we know more about River Song than we’ve ever learned about her to date. But I get the feeling there’s way more to her… and I even have a pretty neat theory about it. Don’t wanna ...

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I mean that in a good way…

The one bit of British television that I had my DVR set to record this week (and I mean that in a good way too), tonight brought the second episode of the sixth season (or the thirty-second season, if we’re counting to the show’s very beginning in 1963) of Doctor Who. Picking up from “The Impossible Astronaut”, “Day of the Moon” continues the first Doctor Who story to be filmed in the United States. I watched “The Impossible Astronaut” twice more over the past week and had my expectations set high for Part 2.

I don’t know what precisely to say but, alternatively, “WOW!” and “HUH?!?”

The episode picks up three months after last week’s episode, still in 1969 and on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, with Amy Pond fleeing across the Utah desert. Her pursuer? None other than Canton ...

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Okay, that was off the chain, folks!

The first ever episode of Doctor Who to be filmed in the United States (the show began in November 1963) had Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor ummm… killed by a spacesuit-clad assailant before the horrified eyes of Amy, Rory and River Song, in the middle of American desert. Then a stranger (played by William Morgan Sheppard, who’s done a lot of great work over the years) shows up with a can of gasoline for the Doctor’s body to be given a makeshift Viking funeral.

Then the scene shifts to a roadside diner and the Doctor coming out of the men’s room looking fine and dandy.

Then the Doctor and crew flew the TARDIS to the Oval Office of President Richard Milhous Nixon in 1969.

And for reasons which are not immediately clear, President Nixon has been getting a mysterious phone call from a ...

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I’ve been in a horrible funk the past few days. Related to my having bipolar disorder? Yeah. But also, quite a bit spiritual. Depression and oppression together are a terrible, terrible thing…

But you know what cheers me up? And maybe this’ll help cheer others up too if they need it: two new trailers for the coming season of Doctor Who!

And if these are any indication… well, good lord this next season is going to be EPIC!

“This is the day he finds out who I am.” That line, spoken by River Song, gives me shivers. That and the “Fear me, I’ve killed hundreds of Time Lords”, “Fear me: I’ve killed ALL of them” exchange between the Doctor and some new foe, and the Doctor saying “I’ve been running my whole life. Now it’s time for me to stop”…

April 23rd can not get here soon enough!...

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“There are no monsters in the Oval Office.”

Last season I didn’t post a single review of any Doctor Who episodes. That was all my fault: had some things I was dealing with at the time and couldn’t commit to giving this show the respect that it deserves.

So… what do I think of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor? He’s become my favorite incarnation of the Doctor since the series was revived in 2005… and right up there with Tom Baker’s and Jon Pertwee’s versions as my all-time favorite Doctor ever. Smith has been a sheer hoot to watch in action! And this past season was the best yet since Doctor Who was brought back into production. Steven Moffat has not disappointed since taking over as showrunner.

The next season begins on Easter weekend. Supposedly this season will see the return of the Daleks, the return of the original...

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“I don’t want to go!”

Good (Time) Lord… it’s been ages since I’ve done a write-up about Doctor Who! The last time one appeared on this blog was when “The Next Doctor” Christmas special aired twelve months ago.

But no way was I gonna miss posting thoughts about the final adventure of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor…

Thankfully, BBC America aired “The End of Time” Part 1 last Saturday night: a day after its Christmas Day premiere for our Brittish brethren across the pond… meaning that for the first time ever I didn’t have to download it off the Intertubes via BitTorrent. But I didn’t want to share my thoughts on it until Part 2 aired stateside this evening. It just finished so here we go!

I’ve mixed feelings about “The End of Time” but in general, I found it to be a rollickin’ and satisfying finale not ...

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Production has now begun on next year’s season of Doctor Who (following the hiatus it took during 2009) and the BBC has published the first photo of Matt Smith in full costume. Smith will be the next actor to take on the iconic role of the Doctor (taking over from David Tennant).

So what does the Eleventh Doctor look like? Here he is (along with new companion Amy Pond, played by Karen Gillan)…

Heck, that’s darn near how I dress on a regular basis! I mean, nice shirt along with rugged pants and sturdy boots… except I don’t usually wear a bow tie 😛

Next season’s Doctor Who will be the first with new showrunner Steven Moffat at the helm. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, I probably only have to mention that he wrote the previous episodes “The Girl in the Fireplace” and the “Silence in the ...

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