Let me foreground this by stating that I know the new episodes have been on BiTorrent for a few weeks now, and they have already premiered in Britain. I know it is not the case that I will be one of the first to see the new series, but I am attaching something special to witnessing an official premiere of it that I don't have to download off the internet or region-free my DVD player for. With that, on with the show.
Tonight, I get to participate in what I think of as living Science Fiction history. The Ninth Doctor makes his premiere on the CBC at 8:00 PM. For the first time in my adult life, i.e. since I got interested in Dr. Who, there is a Dr. Who series in production. After about ten years of watching entire episodes on PBS or DVD, I get to see the new one as it is released, as it was intended to be seen. I am disappointed to report that the BBC has not stuck with the multi-episode format from the original show. Most of the episodes of this season will be only 45 minutes long, which is a departure from the old show where an "episode" would take anywhere from four to fourteen weeks to complete (Trial of a Time Lord was an entire season). Unfortunately, this means that I will not be hanging at the edge of every cliff, waiting to see how the Doctor and his Companions will get out of this one (and actually not knowing because the next part hasn't aired in my country, not just because PBS lost the tape). That aside, I'm still really excited that I'll get to witness the introduction of a new Doctor in real time. I've got a post-it note on my monitor to remind me to tune it so I don't forget while working on my term papers.
Yes, I am a huge geek, and I don't care. I take my love for science fiction as a defining feature of my personality, an activity which, when I engage in it, allows me to feel like an actualized human being, living an authentic existence (still an Existentialist at heart). Some of my earliest memories are of watching original Star Trek. I get touchy about changes to Star Wars because, like many others, I don't remember not knowing about Star Wars. Any time I watched one of the original movies, I was either very young, or remembering seeing them when I was too young to understand them. As Voltaire (the goth musician, not the philosopher) said at the concert, those movies are like religion and mythology to me. I'm a fucking Sci-Fi geek, and I'm proud of it.
In other news, I have term papers to write. I might be on my various messenger services if anyone wants to keep me company.
Is anyone else this exited about the new Doctor?
Tonight, I get to participate in what I think of as living Science Fiction history. The Ninth Doctor makes his premiere on the CBC at 8:00 PM. For the first time in my adult life, i.e. since I got interested in Dr. Who, there is a Dr. Who series in production. After about ten years of watching entire episodes on PBS or DVD, I get to see the new one as it is released, as it was intended to be seen. I am disappointed to report that the BBC has not stuck with the multi-episode format from the original show. Most of the episodes of this season will be only 45 minutes long, which is a departure from the old show where an "episode" would take anywhere from four to fourteen weeks to complete (Trial of a Time Lord was an entire season). Unfortunately, this means that I will not be hanging at the edge of every cliff, waiting to see how the Doctor and his Companions will get out of this one (and actually not knowing because the next part hasn't aired in my country, not just because PBS lost the tape). That aside, I'm still really excited that I'll get to witness the introduction of a new Doctor in real time. I've got a post-it note on my monitor to remind me to tune it so I don't forget while working on my term papers.
Yes, I am a huge geek, and I don't care. I take my love for science fiction as a defining feature of my personality, an activity which, when I engage in it, allows me to feel like an actualized human being, living an authentic existence (still an Existentialist at heart). Some of my earliest memories are of watching original Star Trek. I get touchy about changes to Star Wars because, like many others, I don't remember not knowing about Star Wars. Any time I watched one of the original movies, I was either very young, or remembering seeing them when I was too young to understand them. As Voltaire (the goth musician, not the philosopher) said at the concert, those movies are like religion and mythology to me. I'm a fucking Sci-Fi geek, and I'm proud of it.
In other news, I have term papers to write. I might be on my various messenger services if anyone wants to keep me company.
Is anyone else this exited about the new Doctor?
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lisa_why:
Does an UNdead Zombie cancel itself out and become a normal human?
lisa_why:
Wow...I guess math explains pretty much everything...