Doctor Who - The Next Doctor…or not?
Christmas Day in the UK for the past few years has brought not only a joyous holiday celebration but joyous holiday television ratings in the form of geekish delight of the Doctor Who Christmas Special. As an in-joke, last year’s special had London evacuated on the holiday due to the mass panic of paranoia of further Christmas catastrophe. This year, the Doctor has decided to give the present day London a break and push the fright-fest back around 160 years to 1851. No break for London though as it gets some even more fierce destruction unleashed on the 19th century’s unwashed masses.
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GeekFest 2009: 10 Reasons NOT to Kill Yourself Before Next Year
If you’re the average Sci-Fi, Video Game, Movie, Comic Book geek (like us) you’re going to be sitting alone in your one room apartment on New Years Eve re-bagging all your original issues of Secret Wars, organizing your 3rd generation VHS tapes of Space 1999, and repairing your Spock ears all while trying to figure out whether to bring a toaster to the bathtub January 1st or take one last shot at trying not to hit 35 without getting laid.
FEAR NOT! We would like you give you, the hard working, hard living geek 10 Uber-cool reasons NOT to kill yourself yet. In 2009 there are some awesome things coming that geeks like us should be looking forward to help get through one more miserable year of life.
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5 DVD Gift Ideas for Sci-Fi Geeks
I was not going to do a “buy this” article this year and it may even be very very late but I thought I’d make a minimal list of some great gift ideas.
1. Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and Star Wars Trilogy - $35/piece
At $35 a piece these are a pretty good buy. Anyone who is a real Star Wars fan is going to want all of the movies even if they don’t like them.
For the uber geek throw in the book set too at another $30
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The Day The Earth Stood Still — Hold the Logic
I don’t know what it is, but any time Keanu Reeves comes out with a new movie, I immediately get this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach. In my eyes, a role either calls for Keanu or it doesn’t . If you need a weird, aloof, gothish freaky person, it’s a Keanu role. So I guess an alien with no understanding of human emotion or behavior in a human clone body pretty much screams for him.
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Holy Frak, Galactica’s Back!
The 10 part Battlestar Galactica web series The Face of the Enemy premiered today with part 1. One thing about Galactica, it’s easy to lose the taste once you get it too far behind you, but once the first minute or so graces the screen you can feel the love flowing back.
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Death From The Skies: Give the gift of DEATH!
For manic depressives, goths, or doomsday preachers, Dr. Phil Plait has got just the holiday gift for you. Plait has run the popular website Bad Astronomy for a number of years and has just released his delightful new book of planet wide cataclysm: Death From the Skies! These are the Ways the World Will End.
We live in a dangerous universe. As Plait puts it in his book’s introduction “The universe is trying to kill you. It’s trying to kill me, too. It’s trying to kill everybody. And it doesn’t even have to try very hard.” You’ll be surprised how enjoyable it is finding out how you might die. After you come to terms that we are not even a molecule inside a spec on a pimple on the ass of the universe, you can start to wrap your head around the type of events Phil Plait covers in this book.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Did We Need This, George?
Wondering what new toys are slated for the Lucasfilm product-line later this year? Why not pay $9.50 for a prolonged commercial for them?
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Doctor Who: Journey’s End
Four years ago, Doctor Who returned to the airwaves beginning a whole new mythology for the show while satisfyingly acknowledging the classic series as well. The contents of series 4’s last episode, Journey’s End tries to tie up most every loose end and unanswered question since the premiere in addition to tying up ends we didn’t know were loose in the first place. Russell T. Davies final regular episode of the series ends up being a long, gushing love letter to…Russell T. Davies?
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Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth
If you’re a long term Doctor Who fan or even just a fan of the new series, you were probably in one of two positions after the concluding moments of the The Stolen Earth: either laying face down on the floor or standing straight up in utter disbelief. This was one kick ass cliffhanger. But ultimately, where is this episode going to fit into the 45 year history of the show?
Old companions, old villains. The gang’s all here to close out the fourth series of Doctor Who.
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Doctor Who: Turn Left
It’s quite difficult to judge Turn Left on its own merits. It mostly exposition rolled into a fairly threadbare plot regarding whatever this time beetle thingy is attached to Donna. At least we can tick off the bit of foreshadowing from Fires of Pompeii now about what Donna has “on her back.”
It’s starts interestingly enough. Through some forces we don’t quite understand, Donna is put back into a position to relive a small moment in her life where a single decision was a catalyst for a series of events that changed the course of life on Earth. That event was simply making a right turn instead of a left one at an intersection.
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