Kenny Evil

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  1. Peter Jackson wants to direct an episode of doctor who http://www.blastr.com/2013-12-10/confirmed-peter-jacksons-serious-discussions-direct-doctor-who
  2. Digital edition of Judge Dredd: The Pit is only £1.99 today, which is an absolute steal. Generally this is regarded as the start of the second golden age of Judge Dredd. The premise is that Sector 301, aka The Pit, was a part of the city where corrupt or incompetent Judges were sent and, as such has become the worst performing Sector House in the City. Dredd is sent to take over as the Sector chief to turn things around. It was the first long term Dredd story where the premise wasn't rooted in saving millions (the Cursed Earth Saga) or saving the City (The Apocalypse War or Necropolis) and many of the supporting characters that were created for the story are still part of the supporting cast now. The stakes were smaller, but the story was rich and it still featured a huge action piece to end on.
  3. He did get the GI to mention the valeyard, so I doubt he would have done that unless he intended to use the valeyard. That said, maybe the valeyard will feature in the Christmas special. Certainly from the audition script something about this regeneration will be different from previous ones.
  4. If you do Thunderbirds, i feel like you need to cover the live action movie as well. For science. I second Lucky Louie. It's a sitcom, but it subverts so much of what the traditional sitcom is about and it's the first sitcom since Roseanne to prominently feature a working class family. Threshold should be up for consideration as it has tremendous star power (Carla Gugino, Brent Spiner and Peter Dinklage) but just couldn't seem to find an audience.
  5. I like when a theme song assures people that the team is made up out of heroes, not zeroes.
  6. I think it's named to show a thematic link between Name, Day and Time, but yes I agree that Silent Night was a screamingly obvious title. According to Peter Davison, they tried to get Tom Baker for the Five(ish) Doctors but he didn't respond, at which point they came up with the Shada joke. Personally, I think that was the best way to include him in it.
  7. It's weird, but before Saturday I was fairly adamant that he should be called the Warrior. After seeing it and seeing him, the War Doctor does seem like a better title.
  8. And he was in multiple episodes as well, something that mcGann sadly can't say.
  9. Hmm, he did go out of his way to mention the Meta-Crisis Doctor when talking about miscounting the regenerations. I also imagine that he wouldn't really trust anyone else to get around the limit satisfactorily. Also it does look like the Christmas special will be set on Trenzalore, so perhaps he wants to get rid of that so a later head writer doesn't have to worry about the Doctor's end already being decided.
  10. I've been thinking about this and I think the only way to reconcile his age is that the War Doctor genuinely lost track of his age or at least stopped counting. He's only the second incarnation of the Doctor to have their regeneration triggered by old age, and, when Eight regenerated in Night of the Doctor, the War Doctor looked much younger than he did at the end of the Time War. Partly it might be that fighting in the Time War is more wearing than his normal travels, but I think that it's mostly that he wasn't planning on surviving and that he didn't count himself as The Doctor so he stopped trying to count how old he was which is how he came to 800. While I'd accept that 5 and 6 didn't get long lives, 4, 7 and 8 seemed to have extended periods where they travelled alone and would have racked up the years. Also people seem to be genuinely confused about whether or not "The End of Time" counts and I thought it was clear that it did. As far as I could tell the events, from a Gallifrey perspective, went like this: - Rassilon and the High Council make plans to use "The Ultimate Sanction". The War Doctor gets wind of these plans - The Daleks throw the biggest possible assault they can on Gallifrey. - The Doctor goes to Arcadia to raid the Omega Vault of the one weapon that the Time Lords dare not use, "The Moment" - Rassilon and the High Council find out about the War Doctor's plan to use The Moment and realise that the events of the War will be timelocked. They work to put a gap in the Timelock by implanting a small code in The Master, which will terrify him so much that he will hide at the end of the universe. Once he's cloned himself a few billion times, the gap in the timelock is wide enough to send through the Whitepoint Star to act as a more stable bridge. Once they have that, they reverse the Master's cloning process to stop him using them as an army against them. The events carry on as seen in the episode with 10 unaware that he's already helped to save Gallifrey. - Meanwhile the high command is overseeing the faltering defence of Gallifrey, unaware of Rassilon's plans. The Doctors get in contact and let them know about the plan to send Gallfrey into the pocket dimension, which succeeds. Gallifrey appears to have been destroyed along with the Daleks and the Moment timelocks the events of the Time War. The War Doctor and Ten lose their memory of the events which leaves Nine believing that he had destroyed Gallifrey.
  11. Yeah, the whole point of the negotiation was that, since they didn't know which side they were on and therefore what side of the compromise they'd have to live with, they'd come up with something that was truly fair to both the humans and the zygons.
  12. Brief hype promo with Smith, Tennant, Coleman, Piper, Moffat and Hurt. I do like Moffat's attitude that you can't be too nostalgic, that you've got to get people excited about what's to come so that the current stories feel like they rank with the true classics.
  13. That's a real shame. I think it's fair to say that, by the time the 75th anniversary comes around only Davison and McGann are still likely to be around, so it really is the best chance to get a decent documentary together.
  14. I was surprised when it turned out that the blonde girl wasn't already a fan. From the way she reacted to the trailers, she seemed to be.
  15. Sylvester McCoy doing 11's "Welcome, Stone Henge!" speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqqRUh69L8A&noredirect=1 Colin Baker doing 11's "Rings of Akhaten" speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasazrCYTCE
  16. Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood is getting a re-release with a new cover if you're thinking that the cover is particularly homoerotic, you're spot on. Devlin is an openly gay vampire priest working for the vatican in the 22nd century. This cover is pretty much the quintessential Devlin Waugh picture.
  17. New minisode Night of the Doctor http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01lhhv4/Doctor_Who_Mini_Episode_The_Night_Of_The_Doctor/
  18. What sort of HINT could I give you about how you could access these MEDIA?
  19. According to the Radio Times they've found and cleaned up some Troughton episodes and are releasing them for sale on Wednesday. I highly doubt it's anywhere near to the 106 missing episodes but they have some.
  20. Getting very pissed off about a "theory" that's floating around about the breaking bad finale
  21. I think DS9 benefited from middle child syndrome. Because Voyager was the flagship programme on the newly launched UPN, it had to be a success and therefore commanded more of Rick Berman's attention. Meanwhile DS9 was able to try new things out and push boundaries because not much was expected of them.