Ask Strax! The famed warrior from the Sontaran Empire answers questions from miniature humans for
Monster Day Out.
"The last time a human called me a 'Potato Head' I simply turned and walked away calm and collected ... once I had crushed him to a pulp him with my monster fists!!"
posted by Podkayne of Pasadena
on May 23, 2013 -
43 comments
To celebrate
Doctor Who's 50 year(!) run, our friends at Nerdist bring you a new animated
web series featuring a stop-motion 11th Doctor investigating a mystery involving his previous selves. It's
Doctor Puppet!
(I wouldn't have though it was possible for Matt Smith to look even
more like a
Rankin/Bass stop-motion puppet, but these folks proved me wrong...)
posted by Ursula Hitler
on Apr 7, 2013 -
32 comments
Diamanda Hagan is an obsessive Dr. Who fan in scary makeup. She posts extensive, entertaining, and exhaustively nerdy rants on some of the worst episodes of Nu Who. Behold!
The Beast Below,
Voyage Of The Damned,
Victory Of The Daleks,
Fear Her,
The Next Doctor,
Planet Of The Dead,
The Doctor's Daughter, and
The End Of Time (The Whole Damn Thing) (NSFW language)
posted by The Whelk
on Aug 31, 2012 -
299 comments
It's just past 6am in the United Kingdom, and that means the trailer for Series 7(a) of the New
Doctor Who has been released to the Internet.
It follows this striking
desktop image featuring many, many older model Daleks, including the
Special Weapons Dalek (not seen since 1988).
posted by Mezentian
on Aug 2, 2012 -
340 comments
Mary Tamm, best known as the first Romana from Doctor Who's
Key To Time series between 1978–1979,
has died.
She left the show after just one year feeling that her role had devolved into the "typical assistant" trope, and went to to have a
varied career on stage and screen in the UK, including a three-year stint on
Brookside.
She had been suffering from cancer for 18 months.
posted by Mezentian
on Jul 26, 2012 -
56 comments
Isaac Butler’s excellent blog
Parabasis (previously noted in MeFi conversations about
Mike Daisey and
Spidermusicals) usually centers on issues in the US nonprofit theater. Occasionally, he takes on a different topic in depth with a series of guests. This past week, he hosted the
Fandom Issue:
I am less interested personally in whether the Rise of the Fan is good or bad for our culture, and much more interested in what it means. This week, we assay the Fan from a number of different angles. Who are these fans? And what does it mean to be one? What happens to love when it becomes a communal activity? And what happens to it when the beloved cannot or will not respond?
[more inside]
posted by HeroZero
on May 22, 2012 -
13 comments
