Let’s review some of the things I’ve written about this week.
On Sunday I wrote about the tenures of Doctor Who actors in the role. The more I think about it, the more it occurs to me that the ninth Doctor was never intended to be a long-term role, that Russell T. Davies needed an actor of stature and heft to launch the series and get the curious non-fan in Britain to tune in, so that he could replace the actor with the actor he really wanted in the role. Personally, I expect current Doctor David Tennant to stay with the role through the 2010 season.
Monday I talked about the nonsense words used in Blackadder the Third‘s “Ink and Incapacity.” Damn, …
I’ve long thought that the reason Doctor Who ended in 1989 was because of a decision Peter Davison made way back in 1983 — that he was going to do three seasons and only three seasons of Doctor Who.
What’s this? Six years and two Doctors later the series ended, and it’s Davison’s fault?
My reasoning is this. Davison felt that three seasons was enough. He didn’t want to get typecast. And when he made his decision — in the middle of season 20 — Davison was not having a good time making the series. Three years, then, seemed a reasonable amount of time.
Unfortunately for Davison, he had a fantastic time during the making of season 21. He felt as though …
Because it needs to be done (which in this case means, because Keith did it and that automatically makes it good and worthwhile)…
Stolen ruthlessly, here is The Utterly Utterly Accurate And Definitive 21st Century Doctor Who Tiered Rankings, as decided upon by me because my opinion is the only one that matters. 
The ranks are (and translated for the British-impaired):
- Genius=the best of the best
- Bloody brilliant=not quite best, but pretty fucking good
- Smashing=very good
- Luvverly=good
- Happy enough=adequate
- Yeahok=less than adequate
- Oh dear=pretty awful
- Pants=incredibly shitty
Oh, one thing I’m going to do. I’m going to include Torchwood. 
I don’t often share YouTube videos, but I saw this video and was rather impressed. Someone put together a trailer for Doctor Who: The Time War. The Time War, for those unfamiliar with it, is the conflict that’s been mentioned in the new series on several occasions in which the Daleks and the Time Lords fought for all creation, and the Time Lords lost leaving Gallifrey a burned husk and the Time Lords exterminated.
The trailer is fanwanky as hell, from an ominous Tom Baker voice-over (taken from “The Deadly Assassin” and “State of Decay”) to the fate of the eighth Doctor, and it uses far too many clips of the Daleks from “Parting of the Ways” (but really, what other options were …
I was thinking about this last night, and I thought I’d share.
Larry Niven said in “All the Myriad Ways” that there’s an infinite number of alternate worlds out there. Every decision that happens happens both ways, but we never know because there are universes where the decisions we know went the other way. We can never reach them, they’re lost to us in the multiverse.
For instance, there’s a universe where the phrase “the great gatsby cel shaded” makes sense. (That’s a recent search phrase, by the way.) Not my reason for writing this, though.
There’s an alternate universe out there–an infinite number of them, actually–where the 2005 Doctor Who series starred Hugh Grant as the Doctor and Rachel Weisz as Rose.
And …
