Doctor Who Adventure games released worldwide
Remember the Doctor Who Adventure games which got released in the UK for free, but the rest of the world was barred from having them -- and then told when they became available, we'd have to pay for them? Well, things aren't as bad as they once seemed. The games have popped up on Direct2Drive and the first two episodes are currently just US$3.70 for both (although it appears the RRP will be US$4.95). The episodes are: Episode 1 - City of the Daleks The TARDIS materializes in 1963 to find the human race destroyed by the Daleks. The Doctor must travel ...
Matt Smith sticking with Doctor Who?
Well folks, it's not absolute confirmation -- particularly as it's not from the horse's mouth, so to speak -- but Karen Gillan reckons the Matt Smith quits rumours are just that: rumours. That has to be some of the best news I've heard all day. Hurrah! Source
Sylvester McCoy is Bilbo Baggins?!?
Mark it down to another Doctor-Who's-over-until-Christmas-so-let's-make-up-some-batshit-insane-rumours-to-keep-going-in-the-meantime, but there's word on the street that Sylvester McCoy, our beloved 7th Doctor, is going to be in The Hobbit. In some ways, it's not even all that crazy. I have long thought, actually, that Sylvester has the body shape, the facial look and a great accent to be a Hobbit. He's also a very physical actor, which I think is what Hobbit characters all need to be, to make up for their size. Will this bear fruit? Like all rumours, we can only wait and see! Source
Dark, death-defying madness
As the Tenth Doctor said in his last adventure, regeneration "feels like dying". To us, death is a part of the cycle of life; many of us fear it and few of us look forward to it. Surely this is the same for the Doctor? The raw emotion Tennant pumped out in bucket loads during his final performance made the Time Lord's fear seem so real, as though a frightened, lonely child lies behind his formidable age. Even the Doctor obeys the laws of nature (albeit Time Lord nature), just as we will all, inescapably and irrevocably die, so will ...
The Doctor Who annual, erm, comic, thing…
Since Doctor Who began, back in the 1960s, there have been "annuals" created, usually around Christmastime, as a good stocking filler. Always taking the form of a hardcover book featuring stories, artwork, photos, "fun" facts, quizzes and the like, they were the staple of many childhoods around the world wherever the series was screened. In more recent times, the annuals have even made a comeback... I have a David Tennant-flavoured one around here somewhere... or is it an Eccleston one? I can't remember. But I digress. American comic book publisher, IDW, has now put out what it's calling the "Doctor Who ...
The TARDIS Handbook
Back in late May, I turned 35. What a horrible day that was -- just kidding. My 35th birthday actually zoomed by like most birthdays since I became an adult, and left me feeling absolutely no different to the day before -- or even the entire year before. Ah well, such is my life. Actually, I think most people probably feel similarly about their birthdays. One of the gifts I received that day (hey, did I mention it was Doctor Who costume party, too?), was a small, hardcover book called, The TARDIS Handbook. At first glance I thought it might be ...
If I told you there was a new TARDIS playset out there on the market you might be a little, “Ho hum…” about it, assuming I meant yet another variation of the iconic Policebox to use with the Doctor Who action figure range. However, what I’m actually talking about is the sexy new INTERIOR of the TARDIS from Matt Smith’s debut season, as a playset.
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The text is a little bit racy in some places, but I think most of you will enjoy reading this guy’s take on the 10 Hottest Doctor Who Companions over the past 47 years.
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As you all saw, I purchased Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Episode 1: City of the Daleks just recently and in between my busy day to day work and dazzling social life (or something along those lines), have finally had a chance to start playing.
My first impressions are:
- The voice acting is great. It’s great to hear Matt and Karen delivering new lines, even after the series has ended until Christmas.
- The game controls are a bit clunky. I had already suggested this in older stories of mine, just from looking at online video, and I was right.
- The landscapes and world map are very closed-in. You have the illusion of being in large areas, but can’t actually explore them.
- Ultimately, it’s an adventure game for people who don’t really play adventure games. It’s very, very hand-holding in its approach.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying the game so far, and I look forward to seeing where it all goes. I’m also looking forward to the story that comes afterwards, which features the Cybermen. I just don’t think anyone should buy these games, even at such a low price, thinking they’re going to experience an amazing, deep kind of RPG adventure. It’s cute, but ultimately not a “real” game like, say, Red Dead Redemption or Fallout 3 or similar.
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Forbidden Planet has released details of a new Peter Davison action figure — this one wearing Tom Baker’s Logopolis costume, recreating the regeneration at the conclusion of the Fourth Doctor’s final story. I’m guessing this is a precursor to a more widely available Fourth Doctor in that costume. Simultaneously, Forbidden Planet has also released a double pack of the Anthony Ainley Master from Planet of Fire and a Fifth Doctor wearing his Panama Hat. At first I thought it was meant to be a Planet of Fire set, but when I looked closely, the Davison figure has the wrong jumper and trousers for Planet of Fire. I think this is a huge opportunity lost to do a Planet of Fire figure featuring Davison in his shirtsleeves and braces, as seen in the picture below from, funnily enough, Planet of Fire.
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This whole Benedict Cumberbatch as The Doctor story, that I kicked off recently here, just gets stranger and stranger as the days go on. Now the latest news is that Cumberbatch claims to have been talking to David Tennant about taking the role at one stage and comments, “David and I talked about it but I thought it would have to be radically different. And anyway I didn’t really like the whole package – being on school lunchboxes.”
So now I’m left with the question, how serious is this guy about Doctor Who? We’ve seen the video where he basically says he’d like a big role on the show… yet he’s also on the record as saying he doesn’t like being on school lunchboxes (the poor dear). As such, I really don’t know what to make of it. Does he “get” Doctor Who? Even if he came into the series as The Master, to give the example of a big, recurring role that isn’t the Doctor, he’s still going to end up on merchandise and the like. So what’s running through his head — and indeed Steven Moffat’s for that matter — at the present time is unknown.
And what about Matt Smith? Half of fandom thinks he’s leaving after his second series and half thinks he’s staying on. Does he get a say in when Cumberbatch can have his role… if indeed it’s his role that he’s after at all? This is indeed a very strange story.
To be perfectly honest, I know very little about this fan version of the Doctor Who theme tune at this point in time, beyond what it says on the box, ie: “Tasmanian electronica – ProjeKt Camus performs the Doctor Who theme”. It gets a bit freaky around the 3:05 mark.
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After my last article on the Springfield Punx website (where a guy has made some brilliant Doctor Who drawings in the style of The Simpsons), the site itself has confirmed what androzani.net was reporting — and even given me a shout-out in the process — that the site isn’t any sort of campaign to put Doctor Who into the Simpsons.
You can see the Springfield Punx post here.
Meanwhile, across the Interwebs, The Sun newspaper and many, many Doctor Who websites and blogs are continuing to report the wrong story. Come on guys, it’s not hard to get right. Yet, as I said in the original story, it seems most people don’t actually cross-check or think too hard about what they’re writing on their blogs and elsewhere.
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Welcome to your Sunday, Who fans! Today we’ve got a video from a US fan, talking about Matt Smith and his first season in Doctor Who. I fully subscribe to the point of view that Matt Smith’s had a good first season and the real proof of the pudding, so to speak, will be in his next full series. I think that’s where we’ll really see him take off.
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From the I Never Would Have Guessed That files, comes news that Matt Smith actually auditioned for the role of Watson in the current BBC re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes being put together by Doctor Who showrunner, Steven Moffat and longtime Doctor Who fan and occasional Who writer, Mark Gatiss. Given that the audition happened “a week” before the Doctor Who auditions, as the story goes, I wonder if there’s more to this story that has yet to emerge? Did Moffat, for example, give Matt a nudge and tell him to front up the following week for the Doctor Who audition? To me, it’s hard to believe that, on some level, Moffat wouldn’t have seen Matt at that audition and not been thinking about the Who casting the following week as well. I’d be surprised if there isn’t more to this story…
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