Tag: Doctor Who

Don’t Kill the Showrunner

” The only thing we enjoy more than making people stars is tearing those stars out of the sky afterward.” Old showbiz saying.

THE INTERNET, FAN CULTURE, AND CREATORS: A BLESSING WE SHOULDN’T TURN INTO A CURSE – by Alanna Bennett

Steven Moffat enrages a lot of people. It’s simple fact. When you take over one of the most popular sci-fi franchises of all time and replace a beloved showrunner, the change is bound to stir up some feelings no matter what you do. This is made double true when among the changes to the show are issues that lend themselves easily to Internet ranting (read: most things, but most particularly those involving female companions and the like). This is madetriple true when you are the type of showrunner who likes to interact—some would say tease, some would say torture—your fans on said Internets, metaphorically poking them with a long stick and frequently reminding them how often you are going to make them cry. read article

The Doctor Puppet is On His Way to the UK

And he’s so thrilled about it that we’re posting his proud pic:

Hey, waitaminnit. Why doesn’t he have a Gallifreyan passport? read article

Not Inspector Spacetime AKA Not Doctor Who AKA Travis Richey’s First Episode is Up and Running

If you’re a COMMUNITY fan and/or a DOCTOR WHO fan, you’ll love this Travis Richey-created web series startlingly similar to the series within a series on the show. A series within a series that is, itself, startlingly similar to a certain 49+ year old BBC space/time traveling show.

And here’s a little “making of” video to go with the little video above: read article

Alyssa @ThinkProgress.Org Calls Steven Moffat on His Sexism

…And no matter what her title says, she’s obviously not over it at all:

Steven Moffat, I’m Over Your Lady Issues – by S.E. Smith

So yes, ‘Asylum of the Daleks!’ I have many thoughts about this episode, some of which have already appeared. But what I keep coming back to again and again, my friends, is that Steven Moffat has serious lady issues. Are you tired of them? Because I am tired of them. He’s got this obnoxious tendency of reducing female characters to orbiting moons rather than their very own planets, and the man cannot seem to understand why women are rather riled up at their depiction; who can forget that line where he tried to turn a critique ’round on the critiquer by claiming it was ‘anti-woman’ to be concerned about reducing female characters to mothers as though there was nothing else for women to do and it was impossible to be a mother and something else at the same time? (How could little ladybrains possibly manage dual tasks like that?!) read article

The Doctor Puppet Goes Up and Down

Uh-oh, we hate to say this, but the recent inundation of Doctor Puppet blog posts has had an effect on us that we don’t think the Puppet and his trusty pal Alisa intended. We’re starting to flood.

He’s so cute and happy, but…

“I had a splendid time at Dragon*Con just riding the elevators in the Marriot Marquis up and down. They were like glass rocket ships! VROOOM!!! ” (The Doctor Puppet)

What do you think, gang? Should we give this a rest for awhile? Or we could be a little pickier about which posts we pick up. But that would mean we’d have to think about what we were doing, and one of the plusses of working with The Doctor Puppet is that it’s been so darn easy so far. Decisions, decisions. Help us out? read article