First there was an up-close tour of The Village, and now there’s one of the TARDIS—all thanks to Google Maps! (Man, this is great. And so perfectly tailored to my interests! Why, it’s almost as if someone at Google has been reading all of the emails I send, particularly the ones in which I share […]
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J.K. Rowling & Philip Pullman & Doctor Who! Maybe.
Good morning, nerds! As part of Doctor Who‘s big 50th anniversary bash this year, the BBC has announced its plan to release 11 short stories set in the Who-niverse written by beloved and popular children’s book authors. While the authors haven’t been confirmed yet, at the top of the list of likely candidates is none […]
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I Would Have Kept This.
In what marks me as either a terrible person and/or pathetic nerd, if I had been the one to find a misplaced, top-secret script for Neil Gaiman’s upcoming Doctor Who episode, just sitting there in the back of a cab, waiting to be taken? I probably would have kept it. Full story here—including some info […]
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Doctor Who Recap: Your Poor, Huddled, Weeping Masses
“How can they make these things scary anymore?” I asked. I’m an idiot. BOBBY: With the gentlest of taps on the shoulder, we close the book on “The Angels Take Manhattan,” season seven’s half-season finale, and the end of the Ponds’ tenure as companions to the Eleventh Doctor. But so many questions at the beginning […]
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Doctor Who Recap: Three’s Company!
THE POWER OF THREE Maybe they’re tiny Pandoricas! No? Oh. Welcome to our fourth-ever, supposedly-weekly Doctor Who recap/bullshit session, which is a thing I made up in order to trick the Mercury into paying for my Doctor Who season pass on iTunes. I’m Erik Henriksen, senior editor at the Mercury, and I’m joined by Bobby […]
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Doctor Who Recap: Cowboys! And Aliens!
A TOWN CALLED MERCY Believe it or not, limey dandies weren’t very popular in the Old West. Welcome to our second-ever, supposedly-weekly Doctor Who recap/bullshit session, which is a thing I made up in order to trick the Mercury into paying for my Doctor Who season pass on iTunes. I’m Erik Henriksen, senior editor at […]
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Doctor Who Recap: Dinosaurs! On a Spaceship!
DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP Triceratops. Rory. The Doctor. Obnoxious robot. Ron Weasley’s dad! Welcome to our first-ever, supposedly-weekly Doctor Who recap post/bullshit session, which is a thing I made up in order to trick the Mercury into paying for my Doctor Who season pass on iTunes. I’m Erik Henriksen, senior editor at the Mercury, and […]
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Heads Up, Doctor Who Fans
Here are Matt Smith and Karen Gillan singing the theme for Doctor Who. It is, as Topless Robot points out, absolutely terrible. HOWEVER. ALERT: Starting next Monday, we’re gonna start doing weekly Doctor Who posts on Blogtown, with each post corresponding to the previous Saturday’s episode. They won’t be full-on recaps so much as a […]