I listened to "Spare Parts" earlier this week, since, hey, it was like three bucks, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for other Big Finish titles during the hiatus (I'm sure this has come up before in the comments and podcast, but this time I'll take notes). Personally, I'm a revival-era fan with…

I didn't think was that bad. Just this once, let Moffat kill a recurring bad guy. RTD did it repeatedly with the Daleks, Cybermen, and Master, and Moffat's been pretty good about leaving pieces on the board.

To be fair, the flag is actually painted on the dumpster, because otherwise people might think they're renting one o' them ter'rist garbage haulers.

My favorite full-of-crap legal letter was from Harlan Ellison's lawyer trying to stop the release of the movie "In Time," apparently because a critic who'd seen an early screening half-remembered one of Ellison's stories with a similar premise and assumed it was an adaptation, which Ellison took as iron-clad…

Time for one of my favorite stories. I went to dinner at a barbecue joint with a couple of my friends when I was living in Orlando, and there were three big guys sitting at the bar wearing matching American flag jumpsuits. The one on the left, looking at their backs, had the union, and the other two guys were just…

Sunday evening as I was walking home I noticed some fake shutters on one of the small apartment buildings in my neighborhood for the first time and actually thought of sending them in ti MMH. They'd gone completely over to being decorative features; not only were they solid plaster, and a fraction of the size of the…

So, update for posterity; the map of Mondas was not included in the BBC production art gallery. Dammit. I'll wait to see if we get a better look next week, and probably end up making a blog post with illustrations and trying to unwrap a decent map of the planet after that, assuming no one else beats me to it.

It looks like they've gone one better on Mondas being identical to Earth except being upside down (or rotating backwards? Since that's what defines "north"? I've only seen stills). The graphic in the episode has some subtle alterations to the continents.

Given the way the Eleventh Doctor was playing the beginning of the meeting with the Tenth (and the way Ten played it with Five), I've come around to the theory that the incumbent Doctor recalls his past selves memories of the event from their perspective as it happens (maybe it has something to to do with events…

Remember that other episode of Torchwood where Suzy was walking around, talking, and exchanging pertinent biographical details with the team while we were explicitly shown that about 3/4ths of her brain was missing? I think the "sci-fi soul" train has long since left the station in the Doctor Who universe. And that…

The General?

I think they came close in the fourth season. When they landed in the Library, Donna suggested that maybe no one was around because it was Sunday, and the Doctor remarks he never goes anywhere on Sunday, because Sundays are boring. And then at the beginning of the Stolen Earth, just before the Earth gets Stolen, the…

Also on the subject music: the oddly melodic alert klaxon at the beginning of the episode that Missy starts dancing to.

Josh Minm?

Bigger on the inside.

I've never seen it actually said anywhere, but I have a theory that Moffat's first ending for "The Girl in the Fireplace" was for the Doctor to remain stranded in the past, and then to just walk back up to Mickey and Rose when they used the fast-return switch to take the TARDIS back to present-day London, with nothing…

Years ago, on another site, I saw someone pass on what they themselves had learned from another fan that turned the original Cyberman from being the cheapest, shoddiest version that exemplified cheesy sci-fi monsters to one of the most horrifying things in Doctor Who. Two words:

I don't talk about things I'm not ashamed of all the time. Because it's a long story, because it doesn't seem relevant, because it's nobody's business and, perhaps, because I'm unsure of how the stranger I'll never see again might take the fine details of my life.

I think that's where we're going with this. So, Earth is flat, that means there's no coreolis effect, so no hurricanes, tornados, or trade winds. You wouldn't see much further from higher up, and mountains wouldn't appear to rise from the horizon as you approach. There is no South Pole. How are seasons different in…

The Doctor can't have anyone horning in on his bit. "Nice to meet you Rose, run for your life." "There's a banana grove there, now." And, skipping ahead a bit, "There's a giant smiley abattoir over there and I'm having this really childish impulse to blow it up."