Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Almost everything I know about Doctor Who I learned from five episodes and a kind of casual fandom osmosis,* but this funny Who macro story, based on an episode I don’t think has aired in the U.S. yet and probably not safe for work unless you work in a slash factory, is still kinda hilarious. Maybe it’s the whole Tony Blair thing.
*Also the reason I can fool Quizilla into thinking me a master of Tolkien.
A New Crew In Town: Clever Battlestar Galactica filk. Why is Baltar the only one with an English accent?
Return of the Jedi Extended Scene. Wasn’t there a Robot Chicken sketch like this once?
The real reason Christopher Eccleston quit Doctor Who.
For the Karrdes: Leia Live at ConnectiCon 2006. Also: Stuff blowing up real good.
TFN’s fake Episode II trailer. Remember this? It has Christopher Walken!
The rest of the garbage
The Sci-Fi Channel has picked up the new Doctor Who after all. The show will be part of their Friday line-up, and the American DVD launch has been postponed to July.
Hooray!
The BBC confirms there will be a Dr Who spin-off aimed at an adult audience. “Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) will feature Captain Jack.
IMDB says:
An adult spin-off of Doctor Who which contains sex and bad language is set to shock fans of the classic family TV show… Torchwood is to be written by Doctor Who scriptwriter Russell T. Davies and will star that program’s John Barrowman.
It follows a team investigating crime and alien activities in contemporary Britain. Davies says, “Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humor.”
BBC3 boss Stuart Murphy adds, “The people have affairs with one another. There will be sex and swearing, I assume. I’m quite relaxed about that.”