Posts tagged with “Doctor Who”
2009.05.20
I wish I lived in London
Because David Tennant is sexy, and combining his wonderfulness with astronomy is one of the hottest combinations of geekyness ever.
WAA Trailer 1 from NSC Creative on Vimeo.
Also, I really love the animations in this video. Now, can I go to the UK?
2008.12.23
Doctor Who Christmas Special Trailer
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Seriously, I could not be more excited. I definitely did a draw-drop at the end of the teaser!
2008.10.29
MAJOR DOCTOR WHO SPOILER
DON'T READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT A MAJOR DOCTOR WHO SPOILER! :!:
BIG BIG BIG.
>_>
If you don't want to know the spoiler, the exits are to your left and right. Abandon ship lest ye be readin' the spoiler!
I'm serious.
Ok. I'm totally saying it now.
David Tennant has resigned from his post as the Doctor. Noz! He was one of my all time favorite Doctors. I liked Christopher Ecceleston a lot, and some of the previous Doctors have given me warm fuzzies -- but I totally loved David Tennant. He made the Doctor real.
He's going to finish out next years four specials, plus the Christmas special this year -- but then that's it. This is sad indeed.
Hopefully, I'll learn to love the next Doctor at least 95% as much; otherwise, I'll just be bummed out in 2010. I have high standards.
2008.07.08
Journey's End
While I enjoyed the last episode of series 4 of Doctor Who, I am somewhat saddened as next year BBC is taking a kind of hiatus and only doing specials. This is, of course, for David Tennant so he can do other acting and take a bit of a break -- but I am going to miss it next spring. However, this might also be beneficial, as next spring, I should be focusing not on Doctor Who, but on my senior thesis and my upcoming presentation.
I did thoroughly enjoy the last episode, and I felt they wrapped a lot of things up very nicely. I had a lot of those, "OMG" moments where everything just suddenly fits together and the entire series made a whole lot more sense.
SPOILER ALERT: Like, for instance, the Doctor-Donna thing. That was brilliant -- and I loved how the played the song from Episode Three as the entire crew of the Tardis and then some towed the Earth back to it's location. I love Doctor Who despite it's tendency to occasionally throw science in the wind and do something really cool instead. I really loved the Dalek Caan plot development at the end as well -- that was genius.
The ending made me both sad and happy. For one thing, I was sad to see Catherine Tate go because I thought she was brilliant. I was definitely sad about the Doctor-Rose thing, but only for the Doctor. Rose isn't alone because she gets the copy Doctor who is part human and therefore cannot regenerate. But the Doctor ends up alone, because he leaves Rose in the alternate universe with an alternate self (presumably forever) and Donna's brain begins to burn up so he has to wipe her mind. The last scene embodied that loneliness really well, and I think David Tennant does an excellent job portraying that side of the Doctor. Of course, I've always loved dark and brooding characters that have big hearts.
Overall, though I loved the last episode to series 4, there were some things that were mildly crazy. Since there were so many characters, it seemed as if they all didn't get as much air-time as they deserved. Especially Rose and Jack, and even Martha. I think Russell T. Davies is brilliant, but personally, I am excited for the change from Davies to Steven Moffat, and I think Doctor Who needs that. The last episode seemed a little cluttered, but ended very nicely (and sadly). The Doctor-Rose departure I think could have been done better as it seemed a little abrupt and I didn't think that the Doctor would want to let go of Rose again so soon after finding her again -- and with a different version of himself to boot. But I don't think that part was bad either, and I can accept it. I was expecting a little bit more in the way of protest from Rose, and more reluctance from the Doctor.
However, despite all of that, the ending to the episode was brilliant. My only question is this: despite her mind being wiped of all her experiences with the Doctor, does she still have a brilliant mind? I think it would be cool if he ran into her in the future, and she was some sort of mad genius or something. But that's just me.
Ok, I'm done spoiling a lot of things and talking fanatically about Doctor Who. I know this post really had nothing to do with psychology, but I warned people in the beginning that I wouldn't always blog about psychology. Many interests leads to a variety of blog posts on my behalf. It also has the unfortunate result of a lack of posts because I don't always have the time (or, like now, computer) to write them out so I don't know which one to pick and therefore come to a standstill. I plan to work on this and blog more regularly once I get my laptop back from HP. Hopefully, that will be this week or early next week.