Woodcut prints by Bryan Nash Gill
So, there’s been a reference to each Doctor’s era in chronological order since The Rings of Akhaten. If this holds true, there should be a mention of Six’s in Nightmare in Silver, and Seven’s in the finale…
Parents: Don't forget to make us proud
Friends: Don't forget to socialize
Teachers: Don't forget to get A's
Strangers: Don't forget to blend in
Opposite sex: Don't forget to look good
Society: Don't forget to be perfect
Tumblr: Fuck the world, they're peasants. At least you haven't murdered somebody today
Tumblr: But just in case you want to get away with it, here are some tips.
The Klingon Anthem - Hear! Sons of Kahless (by LeroyKingTV)
“What’s the point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes?”
The Doctor, Doctor Who
“Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.”
Peter Pan, Peter Pan
At some undefined point between 2006 and 2010, Doctor Who became the new Star Trek. Which is to say, it ceased to be that goofy British sci-fi show with the laughable special effects that even most American nerds had never really watched, and instead it became the new geek pop-culture touchstone, general knowledge of which marks someone irrefutably as one of the tribe. Why did this happen? In part, it was because there was a void- J.J. Abrams notwithstanding, Trek ran out of steam years back- and, in part it was because Internet-fueled ease of viewing a BBC show in real time, instead of months or years later on PBS, finally made the show widely accessible in the States. But there’s something deeper at work, too: the Doctor is a hero for our times. Where latter-day Trek gave us an engineer’s vision of the future, Doctor Who and its semianarchic, semiabsurdist mad-genius time traveler in a galaxy-hopping police telephone box reflect a present era so casually insane that it often feels like the best we can do to overcome our sticky dilemmas is to take a deep breath, think hard, giggle nervously, and try something crazy from the weird part of our brains while crossing our fingers and swearing love and good wishes to the world at large. The Doctor represents not only “the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism,” as Craig Ferguson so eloquently put it, but, more specifically, our unsullied, childlike vision of a universe where all things ought to be possible. He’s a grown-up Peter Pan, always collecting new young friends and teaching them to fight the good fight on Earth rather than in Neverland. That’s a pretty great feat for a 900-year-old alien.
At the intersection of the final episode of this season of Dr. Who (which I have enjoyed) and the launch of the latest ‘re-imaging’ of Star Trek (which I have not seen and have very mixed feelings, at best, about)—it seems like a great time to ask the general populace of Geekdom— how much does this sentiment resonate with you? (makes a lot of sense to me)
