Last week saw the premiere of a new Australian comedy, Outland, penned by John Richards and Adam Richard, which focuses on the lives of a club for gay sci-fi geeks (or “science fiction enthusiast homosexualists” as club member Rae would prefer).
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(Belated) Whodensday: Waters of Mars Spoiler and Discussion Post!
Image: David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and Lindsay Duncan as Adelaide stand in a greenhouse on Mars, with a small wheeled robot in front of them. Behind them are several humanoid figures dripping in water, with gaping cracked mouths…. Read More ›
Whoydensday: Waters of Mars Trailer
The Waters of Mars is the next Doctor Who special from Russell T Davies, due in November this year: David Tennant’s last before his big two-parter finale. But, as you can see from this trailer, there are many signs that… Read More ›
Whoydensday: Marry, Shag or Cliff? (Writers Edition)
As usual, you may match one and only one of the people below to each fate. So, who shall it be? Russell T. Davies, who masterminded the return of Doctor Who to our screens in 2005? Steven Moffat, who has… Read More ›
For those who need to vent at Russell T Davies
following the Doctor Who Season 4 finale that has just finished airing on Australian telly – here’s a thread I prepared earlier! NB: there will be spoilers there will be spoilers there will be spoilers there will be spoilers
Whoydensday: the perennial question
The Guardian’s got a casting thread for the 11th Doctor! […] It was suggested in comments to the Guardian article that the casting probably needed to be a bit left-field, pointing out that neither Ecclestone nor Tennant were the obvious choice to play the Doctor at the time they were cast. So, any more out-field ideas?
Whoydensday: Old vs New, strengths and weaknesses
As part of an excellent essay on the role of the Nostalgia Factor in the Russell T. Davies (RTD) era of Doctor Who, Iain Clark makes many excellent points about both the new and the old series of Who, why Sarah Jane Smith was really the only choice as a returning former-companion for the new generation of Who-watchers, and the differing emphasis paid to character vs story in each.
Clark is writing what purports to be merely a review of the one episode of the second RTD season, yet by the end he’s engaging in an analysis of the entire Rose Tyler era in counterpoint to what we see of the characters in School Reunion.
Whoydensday: Villainess edition
Anyway, now that the first episode of Doctor Who’s Season 4 has aired here in Oz, it’s time again for: Marry, Shag or chuck off a Cliff? As usual, you may match one and only one of the characters below to each fate.
Hoyden About Town 