All of Time and Space

A Doctor Who fan from way back. I also get into Star Trek, LOTR and many other things. I'm interested in lots of stuff, so I won't limit it to these shows. This blog will be about anything and everything that is of interest to me, but it will be...

[fafana20]

Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi had an epic meeting with Christopher Eccleston at London Film and Comic-Con on July 29, 2018. | Video: (x) (x)

[onion-souls]

Still on my slow Doctor Who rewatch, and Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor might be my favorite version of the character. I prefer his lower power level. He’s a omnidisciplinary genius and scholar, but that’s it. That’s all you need for a classic sci-fi hero. He’s a small, unimposing guy who seems to be genuinely afraid of most of his monstrous villains, which I love. I like a hero who is afraid of the dangers of his world. Makes the hero loveable and relatable and the villains frightening. My biggest problem with Doctor Who is how downright smug it can get. The Doctor Whedon-quips through the crisis, everyone is afraid of him or in adoration, he can win swordfights against alien warriors and shrug lightning strikes and hundred foot falls…it gets superheroic and dumb. He was also more physically capable than the elderly First Doctor, which you could see putting a strain on the production of the first three seasons. So yeah, I think this version got the power level right.

The Second Doctor also had my favorite companion set, Jaime and Victoria or Zoe. I can’t tell which of the two female companions I prefer, they’re both great, but I think Zoe brings a better dynamic: a logical mathmatician from the late 21st century alongside an uneducated but brave 18th century highlander is a more interesting dynamic than 18th century Scot and Victorian Englishwoman, especially since they never adressed the obvious divide between a warrior opposing the Highland Clearances and an upperclass Londoner from the height of the Empire.

And wow this era has the best Time Lords. They are introduced as esentially a supernatural force, an electronic wind noise and a slow-time field. The two main heavies of their first serial are shown to be subserviant to a calm, ruthless mastermind called the War Lord, whose actor does an excellent job with very little. The Warlord is then completely shut down by the Time Lords, reduced to screaming in agony with a look. His final plot is casually foiled and he and his people are erased from time as part of a court procedure.

Lords. Of. Time. They get the point across.

Later depictions made them rather stuffy and more like Oxbridge professors with laser guns. They lost their majesty and terror. The recent series had them living in barns that look straight out of the Grapes of Wrath. I’m not sure why the creators want to make the Time Lords outright pathetic, but the final Second Doctor story gave them a perfect start. The Second Doctor felt like a hobo from this far grander civilization rather than their president and later savior.

[scriptscribbles]

Doctors + sonics

[unwillingadventurer]

Hello! How's Sebastian, that little cutie? :D -sciencefictionrenegade

Hi! Well, not sure if you saw our post a couple of weeks back where he flew from the roof into our neighbour’s garden and was sitting on their sun lounger lol. After wandering for a few hours, he was sat on the wall for a bit and then that was the last we saw of him.  So hopefully he flew off to new adventures with his seagull friends :D

[doctorwhogeneration]

[gosh]

“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via coral)

[motherflunker]

[mydododied-deactivated20200613]

Lichen post

[irisharchaeology]

From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase ‘massive hangover’ (Latheirt) written in the ancient Irish text Ogham. The monk must have been having a very rough day…..

Source 

[doctormead]

IIRC, the literal translation is “ale killed”.

[julielilac]

The Waters of Mars // The Doctor Falls

[unwillingadventurer]

Happy Birthday Maureen O’Brien (29th June 1943)

[lissy-strata]

And that’s why we hear Peter sing the song of his people!

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[legendsofgallifrey-deactivated2]

dw meme »  Companions [6/6] »  Rory Williams

He’s the last of his kind. He looks young but he’s lived for hundreds and hundreds for years. And wherever they take you, Melody, however scared you are, I promise you, you’ll never be alone. … Because this man is your father. … He has a name but the people of our world know him better … as the Last Centurion.

[bacchaeophanim]

Thing is, apart from the murder thing, the Adipose system does really work. The humans are obsessed with losing body fat, the Adipose need the fat to continue being a species. It’s a perfect symbiotic relationship.

Heck, if the Adipose were up front about what they were doing, rolled up to Earth like ‘we’re aliens and we need your body fat to create more of us’, people would probably volunteer for it. Sure, it’s a bit weird watching a little creature pop out of your stomach every day, but you’re down four sizes now.

[beccaland]

Same goes for the Nestene Consciousness, really. They want our planet because they can eat our air pollution? BRILLIANT! Killing us is just going to stop us from making more dinner for them, though. Why not make a deal?

[landscape-lunacy]

Sunrise in Almscliffe Crag, England - by Ben Gillespie

[678i0u]

We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.

[cleowho]

“Mind your own business!”

The Time Meddler - season 02 - 1965