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Creative Experiments - Shoutpost HelpSciFi TV
2007-05-31
When I was in my blissful youth, my neighbor Harry would run around the yard humming the theme song to Dr. Who. When ever you would talk to him, it was all Who_visim. We had no idea what he was talking about but he was really into it.
Down life's road, I met my husband at college. After we were married, PBS started rebroadcasting all the old Dr. Who programs (black and white and goofy sets and the dreaded out of control robot Daleks who wanted universe domination of themselves) and he became addicted. We even visited Longleat in England and went to the Dr. Who museum there which included most of the BBC props used filming the 1960's show, you had to walk through the TARDIS box to enter the museum and were greeted by K9.
He also loved to watch Star Trek, the old series. Then the new series (yes a few of them with various titles) came on and I was forced to watch it. I think my biggest laugh on that show was Worf doing the Klingon Love Call. I did like the Betazoid Counselor Deanna Troi. Most interesting was that little light beam that got her pregnant, she did not know what was wrong with her, and the baby developed and came real fast.
And how I could not wait to find out what would become of Captain Picard after he was transformed into a Borg as a season closer. I could not believe how into this show I was.
Then there were the X Files and Battle Star Gallactica, both the old an new, and Quantum Leap (I like this one).
My picks for my favorite Science Fiction: One Step Beyond, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Third Rock From the Sun, and Mystery Science Theatre, which I wish was still on. If you never saw it, a couple of bots and a regular guy would watch old scifi movies and add their comments which were hilarious, as if they rewrote the original script.
Yesterday on the SciFi channel they ran six hours of the new Dr. Who with David Tennant as the time travelling Dr. spinning around the universe in the TARDIS Police Box (great opening with the special effects). I think he is a wonderful actor ( a few PBS Masterpiece Theatre productions under his belt) and I really liked it, campy dialogue and all effects and his wild but defining hair style! One of the episodes I saw was that of an evil woman wanting more power but was confined to inside of the TV. During the Coronation of ERII, she was going to suck all the faces off the viewers so she could be free from the box. Naturally, Dr. Who stopped her although he got a bit of a shock doing so.
In particular, I liked the idea of watching too much TV, that this could really happen making it no longer Science Fiction but reality.
I will have to tell warn my kids about it.
Dr. Who makes another marathon appearance on June 8 (8 am-4pm EST) and the new season begins in July. Check your listings.
Dr Who at SciFi Channel
David Tennant's Official Site
Dr. Who Exhibitions
Animeboo (2007-05-31)
Dr. Who! Yeah!
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