Birthday • 1981-07-28 Gender •
Male Location • Florida Member Since • 2005-01-14 Occupation • Geek Real Name • Daniel
Personal
Achievements • Worked on college newspaper and did an internship with the Florida Today. Graduated from university Anime Fan Since • Fall/Spring of 99/2000 Favorite Anime • Haibane Renmei, Le Chevalier D'eon, Mushi-Shi, RahXephon, Noir, Witchblade, Black Lagoon, X [TV], Hellsing OVA, Ergo Proxy, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Chrono Crusade, Speed Grapher, Requiem from the Darkness, Hell Girl, Devil Lady, Kurau Goals • Get a job, hopefully in journalism or something related. Get stories published one day and write novels Hobbies • Anime/manga collection, writing, music collection - mostly Progressive Rock/Metal, being a complete Doctor Who fanboy Talents • Quoting M*A*S*H dialogue from memory.
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Sunday, June 3, 2007
Explainations & Blink trailer
Since some (unsurprisingly) don't know what I've been talking about lately, here's a little primer for all of you...
Doctor Who is a British sci-fi TV series, and is also the single longest-running scifi series in TV history (1963-1989 in the original run, plus numerous books, audio plays, comic strips, etc.) It revolves around a man known only as The Doctor, who looks human but is really part of a race called the Time Lords. He travels around in time and space in his ship called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space), which is vastly larger on the inside than it's ouward appearance suggests, as it is diguised as a Police Box (before the advent of personal radios, police in England could communicate with the station and others through these phone booths).
The series originally ran for 26 seasons, because several different actors have played the Doctor. When the original star, William Hartnell, chose to leave, the writers came up with the idea that he could 'regenerate' into a completely new body. The series was cancelled in 1989, with the Seventh Doctor being the last seen on-screen. It was continued in various formats, mainly a series of books, and an attempt was made in 1996 to revive it with a TV movie that aired here in America on FOX, starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. Ratings were not good enough though to warrant a new series.
In recent years the BBC had shown renewed interest in bringing the show back, as did writer/producer Russel T Davies. The broadcasters gave Davies the greenlight to do a new revival of the series. The first season of this premiered in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston playing the Ninth Doctor. Amid fears of typcasting, Eccleston left after only one season, being replaced with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.
Now, specifically the last two episodes that were shown, the 2-part story "Human Nature/The Family Of Blood" was adapted by writer Paul Cornell from his 1995 Doctor Who novel "Human Nature". This is what I've been talking about in my last couple of posts.
Hope that clears everything up for you all =)
And here is the trailer for next time, the episode "Blink"...
