Stavros

Well sure. I thought you meant they were starting completely fresh in an alternate universe. That a different thing to just altering the timeline a little.

I fill my sig with all the crazy things people say about me as well. No-one ever seems to talk about me.

Thats exactly what you said about Ron Howard and the Happy days theme, and look what happened there. You're lucky they only confiscated your passport.

Nope the official excuse is that any significant alterations in the continuity are caused by time travel, specifically Old Spock time traveling.

Looks like I have a new signature! Glad could sum up your unseemly predilections in a manner you find pleasing. :happy:

I have to say this come the end of the year I'm almost certainly putting my vote in for this excellent background to Dr Who. I instantly wanted to go out and find some 2nd Doctor to enjoy just from reading your description Dan, you're really capturing the characters of each incarnation and giving us all a great deal of information we didn't have to hand before. Top notch job.

Mothers, lock up your mothers, Suavestar's back in town

I have a simple test for this. If they know who Prince Nana is then they are genuine Nigerian Royalty, and we can do business.

Check out Trailer 2 Sorry to de-theme Who week but the new trailer is officially up. It looks great, the highlight is how uncannily Karl Urban replicated Deforrest Kelly's facial expressions. The rest of it looks cool as well, a nice change in style from the big space battles of Star Wars. It remains to be seen if its just action for the sake of it. Peggs scottish accent is a huge relief too, I was worried he wouldn't work in that role. The kid at the start couldn't look less like Chris Pine. I know its already been asked, but how are Romulans the villains here? The first re-encounter for decades is supposed to be Balance of Terror. I guess old Spock time-travelling is the excuse for all continuity issues in this film.

I'm interested in the same way that Yoda is interested in Saw movies. I don't want to know but I have to.

I figured that kinda went without saying... But, I have no idea what TARDIS is, so...yeah... TARDIS- Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space. Its a disguised spacecraft/time machine that takes The Doctor wherever and whenever he needs to go. He keeps it in the form of an old British police box, possible due to personal taste an possibly due to it being a malfunctioning piece of crap that can no longer take on multiple forms. It regularly malfunctions, generally taking The Doctor straight into his next adventure. Oh, and its much bigger on the inside. The Doctor- A Time Lord. Time Lords are an ancient race from the Planet Gallifrey. The have limited extrasensory perception, telepathic sensitivity and they can regenerate their form 12 times (13 incarnations in all). This ability has allowed The Doctor to die and be reborn as a new person ten times so far. The Doctor usually travels with a companion, usually a human, often a twenty-something female. The Doctor himself is a eccentric genius, he basically enjoys showing off for less developed life forms (humans) and whenever he encounters an intelligence to rival his own its usually malevolent. Couple of updates on the top bad guys The Master- Evil Time Lord. Moriarty to The Doctor's Sherlock Holmes. Usually possesses a wicked goatee but its not essential. The Daleks- Space nazis. Born of a bitter civil war on the planet Skaro, the Daleks are genetically engineered to be killing machines. They lack any emotion outside of the ability to hate, and desire only to exterminate all non Dalek life in the galaxy. Created by Davros, an ancient evil scientist who is one of The Doctors most brilliant foes. The Cybermen- Create thousands of years ago on Earths twin planet of Mondas. When earth shared a binary orbital pattern with Mondos thier civilisations developed far faster than our own. However Mondas was thrown from its orbit and careened outward through the solar system. Eventually in order to eliminate imperfections in order to survive the Mondosians became/were turned into the immortal Cybermen, humanoid bodies cybernetically augmented and mentally altered. Several variants exists, the Mondosians, the Telosians (divergent group that settled on the suns 10th planet) and the most recent versions created on a parallel earth. The best place to start? You can try out the modern Who series strting with Christopher Tennant, but to be honest the very best Dr Who ever created was Genesis of the Daleks. The Doctor and two companions are sent back in time to the civil war that created his greatest foe. Can they stop the events that led to the Daleks being born? The sets are rickety and its by no means high-budget but the scripting and performances are superb. The underlying morality of destroying an entire race is a theme that continues right through to the most modern episodes of Who.

Apathy as punctuation, I like it. Or whatever.

Wait, rowing club? Are you sure you're exaggerating your Britishness? I do know what you mean. I use mine to drown out the sophisticated political opinions of my Daily Mail reading workmates. It helps me when they insist that the solution to the credit crisis is to "print more money".

I do have a fondness for Bible Black. Theres not much hentai with that quality of animation.

The only thing about ths I'd remotely care about is Dominic West (Jigsaw), and thats just because he's f'n awesome in The Wire. That makeup though... I can only quote Entourage- "They told me it would look good on film." "It didn't."

Deal with this just like I dealt with losing my beard. Start growing a new one straight away. My Ipod has been fritzing lately, and its only a year old. You've done well to have it last that long.

Fine, I'll Email. You might as well call that bit "Stavros' thoughts" if I keep sending them in. Didn't you want it called "Mail Order Bond" or something? We're not actually going to name the post bit in any case, but the aim is to have lots of emails to read out, obviously. Adham & I are recording the Live and Let Die episode in two weeks time, so that's your deadline! Mail Bonding. It was worth mentioning just to get the awful pun out there.

Fine, I'll Email. You might as well call that bit "Stavros' thoughts" if I keep sending them in.

Old Man Logan took a bit of a nosedive with its latest issue, I'm not optimistic about it.

The Blade films. I really like the first two, the original is the original Marvel film, its a great western Martial Arts action film and frankly one of my favorite action films of all time. The second installment is a masterpiece of concept an design, easily surpassing even Del Toro's later Hellboy films. You've got great horror/action, tonnes of blood and good villains in Reinhardt (Perlman) and Novak (Luke Goss). I fucking hated Blade III when I saw it just because it was such a downgrade in terms of the horror and visceral action. HHH with a puffy vampire dog? Bullshit. The new sidekicks weren't a patch on Abraham Whistler and the over-cgi'd Dracula as the bad guy was such a let own considering he was supposed to be the ultimate Vampire and wound up being less than any of the bad guys before him. I might give it another shot just because I've just watched the first two, but I'm not paying more than £3 or whatever. I'm not even bothering with the series.

MVP was using the boot as a finisher just before he started losing all the time. I'm referring to the one in the corner. I don't think he's ever used that one as a finisher. The one he used before turning into a jobber was the modified Shining Wizard, which they have set as a trademark move, and won't let you set as a finisher. After so many years, you'd think they would let you just set anything as a finisher. Thats the one I mean, he's used that corner boot two or three times on TV to finish guys. Plus it was a finish in the last game. I hate the idea that they are disallowing more and more options as finishers the more the game goes on. The whole franchise stinks of restrictive overdevelopment. They concentrate on gameplay gimmicks rather than actually improving the damn thing.

MVP was using the boot as a finisher just before he started losing all the time. I'm not getting this until its lying in the discount bin. I just don't need a wrestling game bad enough to want this one. Damn. Just checked the roster and Paul London is on it. Damn!!!

There are five people in your town call Stavros Russianovich? Its Stavros Oblivarious Kaplinski and you know it. Update on my Zach & Miri outing attempts. Went to a midday showing at the nearest Vue, there were three people in the cinema including me (win!). Great film too, my housemate told me the Daily Mail hated it so I figured it would be right up my street. The moment the Pixies started to play my heart slowly break.

Just Facebooked my name and realized there are 5 people who share it in this town. I now have an uncontrollable urge to hunt them down and kill them, like a psychotic cross between Highlander and Dave Gorman.