tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31022968091231814892024-03-17T23:03:35.237-04:00DAMN Good Coffee...and HOT!The Officially Official Ramblings of Charles SkaggsCharles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.comBlogger2457125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-12403190622723938312024-03-16T20:14:00.000-04:002024-03-16T20:14:09.137-04:00Live-Action TEEN TITANS Film in Development at DC Studios<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMPZmajcsTYWvcGo06beUVzGJJi-QBdDcvN8ahHFncZ0kl-PRUq4ZkpRkLoBDJhf0qbFBCvtJ5B5snPnu6Lz79VUgZs7c5n45NVRuYJvSJWCIhIVw6LvZU_nU1Ngv7ycGMHD94ae6Jd0hz9_OFj_OOm5buNp29QjEbKM9UMVcvbOmI1YMaSlQb0dcsVM/s833/New%20Teen%20Titans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="833" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMPZmajcsTYWvcGo06beUVzGJJi-QBdDcvN8ahHFncZ0kl-PRUq4ZkpRkLoBDJhf0qbFBCvtJ5B5snPnu6Lz79VUgZs7c5n45NVRuYJvSJWCIhIVw6LvZU_nU1Ngv7ycGMHD94ae6Jd0hz9_OFj_OOm5buNp29QjEbKM9UMVcvbOmI1YMaSlQb0dcsVM/w400-h291/New%20Teen%20Titans.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Titans together...on the big screen!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/teen-titans-live-action-movie-1235853170/" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a> </i>has word that DC Studios is developing a live-action film based on DC Comics superteam the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Titans" target="_blank">Teen Titans</a>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Nogueira" target="_blank">Ana Nogueira</a> tasked with writing the screenplay.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Nogueira, 38, is an actress and playwright best known as Penny Ares on <i>The Vampire Diaries </i>TV series, and has appeared on episodes of <i>The Blacklist, The Michael J. Fox Show, </i>and <i>Hightown. </i>Currently, she's also working on the script for another DC film, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl:_Woman_of_Tomorrow" target="_blank">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</a> </i>starring Milly Alcock as Supergirl/Kara Zor-El.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2EGzBY0r0o0CUTHJviei9ix317nLwUgi3wR1wcgT0IP2OoZMbpcG38MhV6If56RIvgKouinB3h3hUm7nOUntsc6M8XRP8pbpNhXX_S_MFwac0cYWrPUOsBDOYHxFwfpqYls08cv1wwXFoUwX6887l0cs1nedKW5FDPlvUZbLmZVqMooYCR-UYmJPK2k/s1599/New%20Teen%20Titans%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1599" data-original-width="1048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2EGzBY0r0o0CUTHJviei9ix317nLwUgi3wR1wcgT0IP2OoZMbpcG38MhV6If56RIvgKouinB3h3hUm7nOUntsc6M8XRP8pbpNhXX_S_MFwac0cYWrPUOsBDOYHxFwfpqYls08cv1wwXFoUwX6887l0cs1nedKW5FDPlvUZbLmZVqMooYCR-UYmJPK2k/s320/New%20Teen%20Titans%201.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Created in 1964 by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani, the Teen Titans first appeared in <i>The Brave and the Bold (vol.1) </i>#54, where Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West) and Aqualad (Garth) teamed up to defeat a weather-controlling villain known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Twister_(comics)" target="_blank">Mister Twister</a>. They appeared under the name "Teen Titans" in T<i>he Brave and the Bold</i> #60 and were joined by Wonder Woman's younger sister Wonder Girl (Donna Troy). After being featured in <i>Showcase</i> #59, the Teen Titans were spun off into their own series with <i>Teen Titans (vol.1)</i> #1 by Haney and artist Nick Cardy. Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (Roy Harper) made guest appearances before officially joining the team in <i>Teen Titans</i> #19.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After running 43 issues, the series was cancelled in 1973, but was brought back in 1976 with additional team members, including African-American superheroes Guardian/Hornblower (Mal Duncan) and Bumblebee (Karen Beecher), along with former supervillain-turned-superhero Harlequin (Duela Dent). The revival was short-lived, however, and the series ended in 1978 with issue #53.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1980, writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez created a new incarnation of the team, the New Teen Titans, which debuted in <i>DC Comics Presents #</i>26 before getting their own series. Original members Robin, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash were joined by Beast Boy (Gar Logan), now called Changeling, and new superheroes Cyborg (Victor Stone), Raven (Rachel Roth) and Starfire (Koriand'r). Brought together by Raven to help defeat Raven's demonic father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigon_(comics)" target="_blank">Trigon</a>, this version of the Teen Titans became the most popular incarnation of the team to date and a rival to Marvel's most popular superteam, the X-Men.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The New Teen Titans (vol.1)</i> introduced other notable adversaries, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathstroke" target="_blank">Deathstroke the Terminator</a>, Brother Blood, and Blackfire, and featured classic stories such as "A Day in the Lives", "Runaways", and "Who Is Donna Troy?". In 1984, the series was relaunched as a second volume, while the original series became <i>Tales of the Teen Titans. </i>Before ending original stories with #58, <i>Tales of the Teen Titans </i>featured additional classic stories </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The Judas Contract", which featured Robin adopting the new identity of Nightwing, and "We Are Gathered Here Today...", which told the story of Donna Troy's wedding.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After various incarnations of the Titans over the decades, the seven members of the New Teen Titans are once again the current version of the team in <i>Titans (vol.4), </i>now written by Tom Taylor and drawn by incoming artist Lucas Meyer. Following the events of the <i>Dark Crisis</i> event series and during Taylor's run on <i>Nightwing (vol.4)</i>, Superman approached Nightwing with the proposition that he serve as the leader of the new superhero team, after the Justice League disbanded. This led to Nightwing unveiling a new Titans Tower in Bludhaven, with his friends from the New Teen Titans era, only now no longer teenagers.<br /><br /></span></p>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-44807936456065108302024-03-10T18:44:00.001-04:002024-03-10T18:44:29.532-04:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 309: "The Evil of the Daleks" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4SlwlvoYTUF8Spz9UJyA8DwKYc9xGKCJEt0SSjENzzmEZXGHgfmUB_wboyMBE2U73l7ztJaAfABKug1ECnTlwi2AI_jzimUn2V8ojTA4wX7_Ci_twtpnor7dr2gBfb6F60oylKJQPyE_QwMXRATP99aq9dT3x5_Bx1siDoeU2JAbxAk44Ks6-Q7tcpY/s1400/NSE%20Episode%20309.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4SlwlvoYTUF8Spz9UJyA8DwKYc9xGKCJEt0SSjENzzmEZXGHgfmUB_wboyMBE2U73l7ztJaAfABKug1ECnTlwi2AI_jzimUn2V8ojTA4wX7_Ci_twtpnor7dr2gBfb6F60oylKJQPyE_QwMXRATP99aq9dT3x5_Bx1siDoeU2JAbxAk44Ks6-Q7tcpY/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20309.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">No, Doctor. Look, I'm telling you this, we're <i>finished.</i> You're just too callous for me. Anything goes by the board, anything at all."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"That's just not true, Jamie. I've never held that the end justifies the means."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<i>Ach</i>, words. What do I care about words? You don't give that much for a living soul except yourself."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I care about life. I care about human beings. Do you think I let you go through that Dalek test lightly?"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I don't know, did you? Look, Doctor, just whose side are you on?</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Jamie McCrimmon and the Second Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The Evil of the Daleks"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">we're </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">joined by Special Guest Companion Holly Mac as we discuss "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_of_the_Daleks" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">The Evil of the Daleks</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the ninth serial from </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Season 4 in 1967, featuring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon, and the introduction of Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse waiting to come back out to Columbus, Holly watching Inter Milan football, Jesse watching "The Evil of the Daleks" on Tubi, my getting the Target novelization by John Peel in 1993, waiting for the surviving Episode 2 to be released on video, the new novelization of "The Evil of the Daleks" written by Frazer Hines, Jesse's local polka fusion band Brave Combo, Episode 2 being found in a car boot sale, "The Evil of the Daleks" originally planned as the last Dalek story on <i>Doctor Who, </i>Denise Buckley originally being cast as Victoria Waterfield, the Beatles song "Paperback Writer" originally being featured in Episode One, Patrick Troughton and Deborah Watling going on holiday during production, Jamie and Kemel working together to rescue Victoria, Kemel being likeable even as a mute character, the Daleks threatening the Doctor into working for them, Jamie calling out the Doctor for collaborating with the Daleks, the Second Doctor being a manipulator like the Seventh Doctor, Victoria's characterization being a victim of 1960s male writers, Theodore Maxtible wanting the Daleks to give him the alchemical secret of turning base metals into gold, Edward Waterfield and Theodore Maxtible somehow inventing a time machine in Victorian England, the first appearance of the Dalek Emperor, Jesse's Dalek spinoff series <i>My Three Daleks, </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Reverse the Polarity segment, new listener feedback from Christine Peruski and Dave Proctor, DJ Nik returning to talk an early Matt Smith story, and more!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , 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Don't call him Chief!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/superman-wendell-pierce-1235843478/" target="_blank">Deadline</a> is reporting that James Gunn's upcoming 2025 film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(2025_film)" target="_blank">Superman</a>, </i>formerly known as <i>Superman: Legacy</i>, has cast <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Pierce" target="_blank">Wendell Pierce</a> as <i>Daily Planet </i>editor-in-chief <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_White" target="_blank">Perry White</a>, best known to DC Comics fans as Clark Kent's boss.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pierce joins David Corenswet as Superman/Clark Kent, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific/Michael Holt, Terence Rosemore as Otis, Anthony Carrigan as Metamorpho/Rex Mason, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl/Kendra Saunders, Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern/Guy Gardner, María Gabriela de Faría as The Engineer/Angela Spica, Sean Gunn as Maxwell Lord, and Milly Alcock as Supergirl/Kara Zor-El.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pierce, 60, is probably best known as Detective William "Bunk" Moreland on the HBO drama <i>The Wire </i>and has appeared in the films <i>Malcolm X, Hackers, Waiting to Exhale, Ray, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, </i>and <i>Selma. </i>His other TV appearances include episodes of <i>Law & Order, Treme, Suits, Ray Donovan, Archer, Jack Ryan, </i>and <i>Elsbeth.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYCc-SYZTa9JO2Rq8WEovB6kO2z3EFGlDNExntb1mVax_fgg96rrHH2dDTtpr9EKCZtcSwCBkK8plD4UTOlBIUDXVoYTaV90vLEB0_9IKjKwIDQu8K83b6cQDC9fqhiFKWvFysJ99kYnxIFyJYvKLiW2pef6be3coYVfiPufYaZ059_vbOC9ysK22UdA/s635/PerryWhite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="466" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYCc-SYZTa9JO2Rq8WEovB6kO2z3EFGlDNExntb1mVax_fgg96rrHH2dDTtpr9EKCZtcSwCBkK8plD4UTOlBIUDXVoYTaV90vLEB0_9IKjKwIDQu8K83b6cQDC9fqhiFKWvFysJ99kYnxIFyJYvKLiW2pef6be3coYVfiPufYaZ059_vbOC9ysK22UdA/s320/PerryWhite.jpg" width="235" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Created in 1940 by George Putnam Ludlam (radio), followed by </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Jerry Siegel and Wayne Boring (comics), Perry White first appeared in "Clark Kent, Reporter," an episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Superman_(radio_series)" target="_blank"><i>The </i><i>Adventures of Superman </i>radio series</a> before being introduced in comics later that same year in <i>Superman (vol.1) </i>#7.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The earliest Superman comics depict Clark Kent and Lois Lane working for the newspaper the <i>Daily Star</i>, under an editor named George Taylor. However, after Perry White's introduction in <i>The Adventures of Superman</i> radio series, the character was incorporated into the comic books, appearing as the editor of a newly renamed the <i>Daily Planet</i>. No in-story explanation for this change was given at the time, and neither George Taylor nor the <i>Daily Star</i> were mentioned again for many years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Prior to the sweeping continuity changes detailed in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" target="_blank">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i>, Perry White was depicted as having been a freelance reporter for various newspapers, including a Chicago newspaper and Gotham City's <i>Gotham Gazette</i>. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">White eventually went to work at the <i>Daily Planet</i> as a reporter, and earned his first Pulitzer Prize by being the first to write about Superboy's extraterrestrial origins, thanks to an exclusive interview with the Boy of Steel. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Finally, during Clark Kent's junior year of college, Perry was promoted to editor-in-chief of the newspaper, after the retirement of the paper's previous editor, George Taylor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After <i>Crisis, </i>Perry White was recreated by John Byrne as being born in Metropolis' Suicide Slum area, growing up with his father missing in action in an overseas war. White went to school with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Luthor" target="_blank">Lex Luthor</a> while they were children (Luthor was also born in Suicide Slum) and became a copy boy at the <i>Daily Planet</i>, beginning a lifetime career that took him up the newspaper's ladder. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After Luthor became a successful businessman, he began diversifying his holdings of his newly-founded LexCorp company, which included buying the <i>Daily Planet</i>. Turning down an offer from Luthor to become part of Luthor's new television station WLEX, White found an investor who saved the Daily Planet, on the condition that Perry was promoted from reporter to managing editor. The entire episode, including being forced out of his active reporting career, left White bitter and angry with Luthor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">White married Alice Spencer and had a son, Jerry White. Much later, after Jerry was fully grown, Perry learned that Luthor was Jerry's biological father. Luthor seduced and impregnated Alice while Perry was overseas reporting on a war and thought to have been killed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In recent Superman comics, Lex Luthor used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Black" target="_blank">Manchester Black</a> to erase all public knowledge of Superman's secret identity. Perry became the first to demonstrate what will happen if anyone is reminded of this secret, with Black's telepathic command nearly causing Perry to have a seizure. His brain can no longer accept the idea that Superman and Clark Kent are the same person.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pierce will be the fifth actor to portray Perry White on film, after Pierre Watkin in the <i>Superman (1948) </i>and <i>Atom Man vs. Superman </i>movie serials, Jackie Cooper in the four <i>Superman </i>films starring Christopher Reeve, Frank Langella in <i>Superman Returns, </i>and Laurence Fishburne in the films <i>Man of Steel </i>and <i>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Superman (2025) </i>is expected to arrive in theaters on <b>July 11, 2025.<br /><br /></b></span></p>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-9818546072046222952024-02-25T17:52:00.000-05:002024-02-25T17:52:20.336-05:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 308: "New Earth" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEI0apdo_GhpQgxuUAyPquRrkt0F-O7veR9q-tGU_vhWzypAYbHTfNKmv3ppP7H1S0KnMaOFZ4-_qd0P-K90eAdYZQPOxU4p-WPZVIE9MWF3UGg12hndEvJkkUDRqfqm2jfTzB5fik5A3LkH9f737NoqGY44hYVQWQp-KXavdMkD7wFNRLsI-6NppHwI8/s1416/NSE%20Episode%20308.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEI0apdo_GhpQgxuUAyPquRrkt0F-O7veR9q-tGU_vhWzypAYbHTfNKmv3ppP7H1S0KnMaOFZ4-_qd0P-K90eAdYZQPOxU4p-WPZVIE9MWF3UGg12hndEvJkkUDRqfqm2jfTzB5fik5A3LkH9f737NoqGY44hYVQWQp-KXavdMkD7wFNRLsI-6NppHwI8/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20308.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"We shall meet again, Doctor, for the third time, for the last time, and the truth shall be told. Until that day...</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br />"Oh, that is enigmatic. That is...That is <i>textbook </i>enigmatic."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- The Face of Boe and the Tenth Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"New Earth"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Earth_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">New Earth</a>", the first episode from Doctor Who Series Two in 2006, featuring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, and the return of Zoë Wanamaker as Lady Cassandra!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like Jesse not remembering watching "New Earth" before, David Tennant hosting the BAFTAs, Zoë Wanamaker as Madame Hooch in the first <i>Harry Potter </i>movie, Adjoa Andoh as Martha Jones' mother Francine Jones, Russell T Davies writing "New Earth" because Billie Piper wanted to do comedy, Billie Piper not being aware that she would be showered with water in the lift, RTD delaying the Face of Boe's message until "Gridlock" in Series Three, "New Earth" being the first use of the Tenth Doctor's catchphrase "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", the scene abandoned by high winds and rain, Rose gushing over having the Tenth Doctor all to herself, the first hint of the Time Lord Victorious, David Tennant finding his Doctor right from the start, Rose in Series Two compared to Series One, whether the Doctor should have a romantic interest or not, Cassandra attempting a Cockney accent, the Doctor's handwave solution to quickly cure the horde of infected patients, Cassandra's unexpected return after exploding in "The End of the World", wondering why Cassandra chose to die in Chip's body instead of jumping to another body, wondering why the Doctor and Rose gave Cassandra a happy ending before she died after all the people she killed in "The End of the World", the Sisters of Plentitude experimenting on hundreds of people to find cures for supposedly incurable diseases, the great makeup for the Sisters of Plentitude, the return of the Face of Boe, both of us not wanting to believe that Captain Jack Harkness becomes the Face of Boe at some point, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Dave Proctor, Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, where you can watch "The Evil of the Daleks" before our next discussion, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , 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Or you could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I are joined by Special Guest Companion Holly Mac as we discuss "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_of_the_Daleks" target="_blank">The Evil of the Daleks</a>", the ninth serial from <i>Doctor Who </i>Season 4 in 1967, featuring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon, and the introduction of Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-81245173462903012242024-02-18T16:58:00.000-05:002024-02-18T16:58:18.526-05:00THE FANDOM ZONE 288: "Maya" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_V56F15BkiBbfHu2so07KuAzM1qWpbEg-ruiWk8z5xL8kEU7ehsbTu-DEqvHYXLQVTldibTYiMdjnl7BLC-SSdUS7g_JCxtMnBlDD-TSfCWF6Uo_60Dotu5Lod8akIhyphenhyphenl-N0pj3DBMHLTL3prr0id5vnMRSF-4niuS_fMOVsr2hMCX4LzghtE7yBges/s1400/TFZ%20Episode%20288.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_V56F15BkiBbfHu2so07KuAzM1qWpbEg-ruiWk8z5xL8kEU7ehsbTu-DEqvHYXLQVTldibTYiMdjnl7BLC-SSdUS7g_JCxtMnBlDD-TSfCWF6Uo_60Dotu5Lod8akIhyphenhyphenl-N0pj3DBMHLTL3prr0id5vnMRSF-4niuS_fMOVsr2hMCX4LzghtE7yBges/w400-h400/TFZ%20Episode%20288.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"They're in my blood, in my heart. I'm a part of them and they're a part of me. I'm <i>their </i>legacy, not yours.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Echo/Maya Lopez to The Kingpin/Wilson Fisk, <i>Echo -- </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Maya"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hello again, everyone! </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">DJ Nik and I a</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">re back for another new episode of <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i> This time, we discuss "Maya," the final episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Echo</a>,</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk, Tantoo Cardinal as Chula Battiest, and Andrew Howard as Zane!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like Inter Milan coming back to beat Rome, "Maya" being a decent finale but not a satisfying one, <i>Echo </i>feeling like it's missing an episode, Maya's fast-forward transition from criminal to hero, some comics background on the "Mayor Fisk" storyline in <i>Daredevil, </i>Young Maya lying about hitting a sapsucker with a rock, finally learning more about Maya's mother Taloa, the sapsucker being Maya's spirit animal, Skully surprising Chula with her sewing machine that he kept for years, Chula telling the Kingpin that she learned sign language for Maya, the Roxxon easter egg, Maya being reunited with her dead mother, Echo's powers being similar to Shazam's, Maya finally embracing her culture at the Powwow, our being concerned that the powwow was going to be trashed by Kingpin and his goons, the Kingpin having a temper tantrum, Biscuits' big hero moment with the monster truck, Chula and Bonnie also tapping into the family superpowers, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Echo trying to heal the Kingpin's anger instead of beating the crap out of him,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> the mid-credits scene where the Kingpin mulls over running for Mayor of New York City, wondering if Echo will join the Defenders, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, new Fandom Zone Fanmail from Jesse Jackson, waiting for our next comic book TV series to discuss,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more! 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Feel free to post a picture on our Facebook page of you or some other cool person you know wearing the shirt!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be sure to come back later this year when DJ Nik and I discuss more comic book TV shows on <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div></div></div></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-31085564321936671152024-02-17T17:17:00.000-05:002024-02-17T17:17:37.361-05:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 307: "Nightmare of Eden" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAo8cgd1HpgeqLWWguU0VUSJF5fW9X_Qe-poKm7Rc2YotaZ95GlAWPeD-JMv-UmwmI_LFQANRfWOXpD4zmTzLDkTnMt6XIf8e88NjvyywdrhMv5bBtgLZw_4gxDqKxKVoV6PRGvg0YS47iZNH7G-9HJxiVry7A-MqAZecbvrCg24yFeSlGFy0p-GEN7c/s1416/NSE%20Episode%20307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXAo8cgd1HpgeqLWWguU0VUSJF5fW9X_Qe-poKm7Rc2YotaZ95GlAWPeD-JMv-UmwmI_LFQANRfWOXpD4zmTzLDkTnMt6XIf8e88NjvyywdrhMv5bBtgLZw_4gxDqKxKVoV6PRGvg0YS47iZNH7G-9HJxiVry7A-MqAZecbvrCg24yFeSlGFy0p-GEN7c/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20307.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I don't think we should interfere.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br />"Interfere? Of <i>course</i> we should interfere! Always do what you're best at, that's what I say. Now come on..."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- The Second Romana and the Fourth Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Nightmare of Eden"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_of_Eden" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Nightmare of Eden</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the fourth serial from </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Season 17 in 1979, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Lalla Ward as the Second Romana, David Brierley as the voice of K-9, and Lewis Flander as Professor Tryst!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like who we're rooting for in the Super Bowl, Jesse rocking the new <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i>t-shirt, David Brierley taking over for John Leeson as the voice of K-9 in Season 17, Tom Baker buying into his own hype, Tom Baker being the definitive Doctor of the classic <i>Doctor Who </i>era, Lewis Fiander in <i>Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde, </i>Bob Baker writing this script without his usual partner Dave Martin, director Alan Bromly quitting partway through filming after an argument with Tom Baker, John Byrne getting rid of the excess surviving Kryptonians in Superman lore, the Doctor treating K-9 as more than a pet, Lalla Ward's Romana being more relaxed than Mary Tamm's incarnation, what happens in the TARDIS staying in the TARDIS, the Doctor being indignant at finding the addictive drug vraxoin, wondering why Captain Rigg didn't have Secker replaced on the bridge, the Doctor trying to fool people about his identity in the days before psychic paper, the Mandrels actually being the source of vraxoin, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Reverse the Polarity segment, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Christine Peruski, Dave Proctor, Holly Mac, and Sandi from Oregon, Jesse watching the <i>Doctor</i> <i>Who Am I </i>documentary, the <i>Watchmen </i>TV miniseries, Jesse's plans to see Bruce Springsteen in Columbus, our upcoming discussion of "New Earth", </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Apple Podcasts -- </span><b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/next-stop-everywhere-doctor/id910617706?mt=2" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a><br /></span></b>Google Podcasts -- <b><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXh0c3RvcGV2ZXJ5d2hlcmUubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></b><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Direct MP3 downloads/Libsyn -- </span><b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="http://nextstopeverywhere.libsyn.com/" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></span></b><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Spotify -- </span><b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/36aj1TpL1Nu4vRWsMbpkaN" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></b><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , 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Or you could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I discuss "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_of_Eden" target="_blank">Nightmare of Eden</a>", the fourth serial from <i>Doctor Who </i>Season 17 in 1979, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Lalla Ward as the Second Romana, David Brierley as the voice of K-9, and Lewis Flander as Professor Tryst!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-56256874708941969012024-02-14T14:37:00.003-05:002024-02-14T14:37:59.027-05:00Marvel Studios Officially Announces Cast for THE FANTASTIC FOUR<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_YemvLLhKl7hWF6h3iROag6wqDPiyQiIdC2UMUrxgQTXOmTK2MPXXvJsZxrRpXQBZEYmZDLfXE9iI_65bNI2yVwHk87BqeB_7A3m5o_FPDl9b0C7lObCb2VoiZPeaQT5Snq-cd-cpuxaxp-ygIJ0a1w4Pgd2Lrf4KNI63FhPYsL7X20_nBaFhv2Imv4/s1536/FantasticFour.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1536" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_YemvLLhKl7hWF6h3iROag6wqDPiyQiIdC2UMUrxgQTXOmTK2MPXXvJsZxrRpXQBZEYmZDLfXE9iI_65bNI2yVwHk87BqeB_7A3m5o_FPDl9b0C7lObCb2VoiZPeaQT5Snq-cd-cpuxaxp-ygIJ0a1w4Pgd2Lrf4KNI63FhPYsL7X20_nBaFhv2Imv4/w400-h225/FantasticFour.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And from this moment on, the world will never again be the same!</span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/fantastic-four-cast-marvel-studios-1235875766/" target="_blank">Variety</a> </i>is reporting that Marvel Studios has officially announced the cast for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four_in_film#The_Fantastic_Four_(2025)" target="_blank">The Fantastic Four</a>, </i>the upcoming 2025 film based on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four" target="_blank">Marvel Comics superteam</a>. It's now confirmed that the film will star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Pascal" target="_blank">Pedro Pascal</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Richards" target="_blank">Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Kirby" target="_blank">Vanessa Kirby</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Woman" target="_blank">The Invisible Woman/Sue Storm</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Quinn_(actor)" target="_blank">Joseph Quinn</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Torch" target="_blank">The Human Torch/Johnny Storm</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebon_Moss-Bachrach" target="_blank">Ebon Moss-Bachrach</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Grimm" target="_blank">The Thing/Ben Grimm</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9Uu1nzuQhEEqkSTqnL3GRV52VINeztwz4bT_trH3OppeoZ6mb2adw-J8PJ0syVDXc2kF3MZknEoTECi2-NkzytVLlYqXILLOw0VZkEcv7twuiiYBOXjrT_jtFbczWHC8oPkV1PELUxwLhfyRM9LsQQvTcpc1qiMN8vKeEVVCuV8eUhF6DZhLrLFAsSk/s3000/Fantastic%20Four.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2092" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9Uu1nzuQhEEqkSTqnL3GRV52VINeztwz4bT_trH3OppeoZ6mb2adw-J8PJ0syVDXc2kF3MZknEoTECi2-NkzytVLlYqXILLOw0VZkEcv7twuiiYBOXjrT_jtFbczWHC8oPkV1PELUxwLhfyRM9LsQQvTcpc1qiMN8vKeEVVCuV8eUhF6DZhLrLFAsSk/s320/Fantastic%20Four.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Created in 1961 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the Fantastic Four first appeared in <i>Fantastic Four (vol.1) </i>#1 as a group who gained superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific mission to outer space. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Mister Fantastic, a scientific genius and the leader of the team, can stretch his body into incredible lengths and shapes. The Invisible Woman, Reed's girlfriend and later wife, can render herself invisible and project powerful invisible force fields and blasts. The Human Torch, Sue's younger brother, can generate flames, surround himself with them, and fly. The Thing, Reed's college roommate and skilled pilot for the mission, possesses tremendous superhuman strength, durability and endurance with monstrous, stone-like flesh.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shakman" target="_blank">Matt Shakman</a>, best known for Marvel's <i>WandaVision </i>as well as episodes of <i>Game of Thrones </i>and <i>The Boys,</i> will direct <i>The Fantastic Four</i> from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. Filming is expected to begin in London by the summer. In addition, Marvel Studios posted the following artwork on X/Twitter, hinting at the FF's uniform designs and potentially a setting of, say, 1961?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9PI1LlDNNGpdV7fhrwBrAA9AwW-Z2IyXaHTXKlPfnYzGwYT_IJBSbHY3eSFhMyuwCEdbEiy-URfTo3TurjvW-U51Oq_F3NgBTS-Y8FnyGyEKGVH3K0w_tyqFbOlYCfhgPxbjYD_sXwaImVz2vkEfAOyKJSNFrNeV4LI2tsztiKzbssaHgCYYlPD2UYs/s1350/MarvelFF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9PI1LlDNNGpdV7fhrwBrAA9AwW-Z2IyXaHTXKlPfnYzGwYT_IJBSbHY3eSFhMyuwCEdbEiy-URfTo3TurjvW-U51Oq_F3NgBTS-Y8FnyGyEKGVH3K0w_tyqFbOlYCfhgPxbjYD_sXwaImVz2vkEfAOyKJSNFrNeV4LI2tsztiKzbssaHgCYYlPD2UYs/w512-h640/MarvelFF.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Pascal, 48, is a Chilean and American actor best known as the star of <i>The Mandalorian </i>and <i>The Last of Us, </i>and has appeared on episodes of <i>Game of Thrones </i>as Oberyn Martell. He's also appeared in the movies <i>Kingsman: The Golden Circle </i>and <i>Wonder Woman 1984.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Kirby, 35, is an English actress best known as Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of Netflix's <i>The Crown </i>and as Alanna Mitsopolis, a.k.a. The White Widow, in the <i>Mission: Impossible </i>films <i>Fallout </i>and <i>Dead Reckoning Part One.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Quinn, 30, is an English actor best known as Eddie Munson in Season 4 of Netflix's <i>Stranger Things. </i>He's also appeared as Koner in the <i>Game of Thrones </i>episode "The Spoils of War."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Moss-Bachrach, 46, is an American actor probably best known as Richard "Richie" Jerimovich in the Hulu comedy-drama series <i>The Bear</i>. He's also appeared as Micro in the 2017 <i>Punisher </i>TV series and as Arvel Skeen in the <i>Star Wars </i>TV drama <i>Andor.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>The Fantastic Four </i>is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on <b>July 25, 2025.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-87713796606322206842024-02-11T16:57:00.004-05:002024-02-11T16:57:53.510-05:00THE FANDOM ZONE 287: "Taloa" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhyphenhyphentBbivnu7XC_0VRmtogPvKvEJplp1JnazQIOV6Qq3hrUIHoMSqWep3Kyfrq-SXQZQDVOqurX4RQUU6oP7HqEv-dXUVQ430kgSFki5j7JyD4m-lLVTVudhSo1PU__MN5nLNsbJdPll5nZVhZ5sAxgF4fw43ZWe070uvIub78emC-lELTDYyUPGDV9PE/s1400/TFZ%20Episode%20287.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhyphenhyphentBbivnu7XC_0VRmtogPvKvEJplp1JnazQIOV6Qq3hrUIHoMSqWep3Kyfrq-SXQZQDVOqurX4RQUU6oP7HqEv-dXUVQ430kgSFki5j7JyD4m-lLVTVudhSo1PU__MN5nLNsbJdPll5nZVhZ5sAxgF4fw43ZWe070uvIub78emC-lELTDYyUPGDV9PE/w400-h400/TFZ%20Episode%20287.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I suspect you've come to kill me...<i>again.</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- The Kingpin/Wilson Fisk to Maya Lopez, <i>Echo -- </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Taloa"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hello again, everyone!</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> DJ Nik and I are back for another new episode of <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i> This time, we </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "Taloa", the fourth episode of the Marvel series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28miniseries%29" target="_blank">Echo</a></i>, featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk, Tantoo Cardinal as Chula Battiest, and Chaske Spencer as Henry Lopez!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like Nik and I being glad our hockey teams aren't as bad as the Chicago Blackhawks, "Taloa" being the strongest episode of the season, learning that the Kingpin didn't lose his left eye after Echo shot him, the callback to the <i>Daredevil </i>Season 1 episode "Shadows in the Glass", the douchey ice cream vendor who refused to sell Young Maya ice cream, the Kingpin's surprise that Young Maya wasn't freaked out by seeing him pummel the ice cream vendor into a bloody mess, why Wilson Fisk had the ASL interpreter killed and wrapped in plastic, Kingpin being both Bruce Banner and the Hulk at the same time, Maya pouring an entire bottle of top-shelf wine down the kitchen sink drain, the Kingpin having someone invent a device for him to understand what Maya is signing without learning ASL, Maya's surprise that the Kingpin wasn't angry that she tried to kill him, Maya and Chula <i>finally </i>sitting down to talk with one another, the flashback showing the birth of Maya's mother Taloa, Maya calling out Chula for choosing herself over Maya when Maya needed her most, Chula starting work on Maya's super-suit, Biscuits calling out a <i>Lion King </i>reference, Kingpin daring Maya to kill him with the hammer he used to kill his own father, the Kingpin's hired goons not wanting to be the one who relays bad news to the Kingpin, Maya calling out the Kingpin for not learning ASL, Maya choosing a different path away from crime, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, Nik watching <i>RoboCop (1987) </i>with his mom, our next discussion of the <i>Echo </i>finale, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more! 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Feel free to post a picture on our Facebook page of you or some other cool person you know wearing the shirt!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be sure to come back next week when DJ Nik and I discuss "Maya", the final episode of the Marvel TV series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Echo</a>,</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk, Tantoo Cardinal as Chula Battiest, and Andrew Howard as Zane!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-27246490199489903552024-02-09T17:48:00.000-05:002024-02-16T20:35:39.247-05:00DRUNK CINEMA 056: "Never Say Never Again" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSP5gwx2b9I7K2PsijCxasJlMZ7LPz9jfVXOmKWyhsJjjtZvJg4UR5-oRFrzrrTbxW7xiHL1CZR0BL0wkG_fKi3g9Dt7aCr5M2oLit_titF1iWWzUtNNCQ3bu7Pcf1G-5_LGEppGHposvpYsla9nCevJvdKaSP1eIRHlXoajTBY4nY189SunvCJGfMD3c/s1400/Drunk%20Cinema%20Episode%20056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSP5gwx2b9I7K2PsijCxasJlMZ7LPz9jfVXOmKWyhsJjjtZvJg4UR5-oRFrzrrTbxW7xiHL1CZR0BL0wkG_fKi3g9Dt7aCr5M2oLit_titF1iWWzUtNNCQ3bu7Pcf1G-5_LGEppGHposvpYsla9nCevJvdKaSP1eIRHlXoajTBY4nY189SunvCJGfMD3c/w400-h400/Drunk%20Cinema%20Episode%20056.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Good to see you, Mr. Bond! Things've been awfully dull 'round here. Bureaucrats running the whole place, everything done by the book, can't make a decision unless the computer gives you the go ahead. Now you're on this. I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence!"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I certainly hope so too."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Q/Algernon and James Bond, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Never Say Never Again</i><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello again, movie fans! My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of </span><em>Drunk Cinema! </em>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">watch</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Say_Never_Again" target="_blank">Never Say Never Again</a></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, the 1983 unofficial James Bond film directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Sean Connery as James Bond, Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo, Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, and Bernie Casey as Felix Leiter!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This time, Xan and I discuss things like Xan's intro theme song, Xan playing to win, our original plans to watch <i>Never Say Never Again </i>back in September 2023, how <i>Never Say Never Again </i>got made even thought it's not an official James Bond film, wanting to watch two episodes of <i>The Prisoner </i>for an episode of <i>Drunk Cinema, </i>Xan listening to a vocoder for the first time, screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr., Roger Moore's best Bond movies, Xan getting to hear "Die Another Day" live at a Madonna concert, Radiohead's song "Spectre", Fatima's fashion choices, the health spa fight sequence taking <i>way </i>too long, Fatima throwing her pet snake from one car into another, Blofeld bringing receipts, Maximillian Largo being very Eurotrash, James Bond being the worst secret agent at being secret, Bond's creepy massage of Domino, Largo <i>really </i>being a fan of Centipede arcade machines, wondering how the Domination of the World videogame valued nations of the world, James Bond having sex with Diane Evans from <i>Twin Peaks,</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor and Shalayne Johnson, our upcoming unconventional Valentine's Day movie, </span><span style="font-family: 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Peru!</span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="description articleBody"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-82850039720184506122024-02-03T18:05:00.000-05:002024-02-03T18:05:18.746-05:00THE FANDOM ZONE 286: "Tuklo" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhItmTIsIsRnAnVMsPTjgIRQQSXXeMQZJpFMOL-aLj74pzLZeyMXK8A4UT1K5CJ6ZaBOj3lnCM15I3Ft4ndvMf2nLqsPZXJ81f4VCEIW1bHV4MWChWEo3iMID68MlQhBGpFu3GxZg8bXkQvedkEjZ72bCJQZzm7c3lHSWkkUjdrQLGzUaplUCr7KtQkpGk/s1400/TFZ%20Episode%20286.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" 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helvetica;">"Tuklo"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hello again, everyone!</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> DJ Nik and I are back for another new episode of <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i> This time, we</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "Tuklo", the third episode of the Marvel series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28miniseries%29" target="_blank">Echo</a></i>, featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Graham Greene as Skully, Tantoo Cardinal as Chula, and Devery Jacobs as Bonnie!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like my wife and I closing on the sale of our condo, Maya and Bonnie literally being tied up in a room to deal with one another, <i>Ben 10, </i>some historical background on the Lighthorsemen, Americans learning about American history that involves other cultures from TV shows like <i>Echo </i>and <i>Watchmen, </i>Taloa's father outlining the gender roles for men and women in the 1800s, Maya Lopez coming from a family of heroes and having to transition from being a criminal, Chula still not coming to terms with the loss of her daughter after all this time, Skully realizing that the estrangement between Maya and Chula needs to be over already, Maya needing to check her six, Bonnie needing to check <i>her</i> six, Bonnie finally being able to tell Maya how hurt she was my Maya ghosting her, Vickie's White Trash Henchwomen, Vickie trying and failing to be in charge of the situation, Maya rocking Rob Zombie's "Dragula", that awkward moment when Zane gets a phone call from the Kingpin, Skully making a Choctaw guard for Maya's prosthetic leg, Kingpin looming like Jason Vorhees from the <i>Friday the 13th </i>movies, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, Nik knowing what Ring Pops are, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new Fandom Zone Fan Mail from Jesse Jackson and Christine Peruski, and more! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">You can check out episodes of </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">The Fandom Zone </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">using...</span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Apple Podcasts </b><span face=""helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-- </span><b><a 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Feel free to post a picture on our Facebook page of you or some other cool person you know wearing the shirt!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be sure to come back next week when DJ Nik and I discuss "Taloa", the fourth episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Echo</a>,</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk, and Tantoo Cardinal as Chula Battiest!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-20632342752886394702024-02-01T17:52:00.003-05:002024-02-01T17:52:53.568-05:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 306: "Nightmare in Silver" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsUwY6F2fRUMkRGrrDgEj-LzPzMB8sxRSZhZNW3QyK16_FdEFIuCY9aIdX27IFr_0xXWZuHuLRV-90yX-dPxXhAbIrKru8G9t2qCrUpt6ncSuTvpzcsbYyEz4o9bIYnMmI2ieZIdGA8hzRlqZ4-7ScV7L3wxJhHFsiAVZ8wSkWx3vt6ggrp8jL7UUAnqM/s1416/NSE%20Episode%20306.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsUwY6F2fRUMkRGrrDgEj-LzPzMB8sxRSZhZNW3QyK16_FdEFIuCY9aIdX27IFr_0xXWZuHuLRV-90yX-dPxXhAbIrKru8G9t2qCrUpt6ncSuTvpzcsbYyEz4o9bIYnMmI2ieZIdGA8hzRlqZ4-7ScV7L3wxJhHFsiAVZ8wSkWx3vt6ggrp8jL7UUAnqM/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20306.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Hey, Clara...You haven't let them blow up the planet, good job!</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- The Eleventh Doctor to Clara Oswald, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Nightmare in Silver"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_in_Silver" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Nightmare in Silver</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the twelfth episode from</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Series Seven in 2013, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, Warwick Davis as Porridge, and the return of the Cybermen!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like trying to figure out who we're going to root for in the Super Bowl after our teams were knocked out of the playoffs, a Next Stop News Flash about Millie Gibson leaving <i>Doctor Who </i>in 2025 and being replaced by Varada Sethu, "Nightmare in Silver" being written by Neil Gaiman, legendary sci-fi movie actor Warwick Davis, Gaiman's "The Doctor's Wife" raising the bar way too high for "Nightmare in Silver", "Nightmare in Silver" lacking the sense of wonder from "The Doctor's Wife", Steven Moffat asking Gaiman to make the Cybermen "scary again", the reintroduction of the original series Cybermen, <i>Doctor Who </i>stealing Cybermen abilities back from Cybermen-ripoffs the Borg, Matt Smith joining the club of Doctor actors who played a dual role on the show, Jesse thinking Mr. Clever should've been played by someone else, Mr. Clever being similar to Batman villain Two-Face, the Eleventh Doctor bluffing Mr. Clever about being able to regenerate, Porridge's ludicrous title as Emperor, Captain Alice Ferrin looking for a chance to blow up the planet, wanting more exploration of Porridge as a character, Clara's reaction to suddenly being proposed marriage by Porridge, Angie Maitland pointing out the obvious that Porridge is the Emperor, hoping Target Books will release a <i>Nightmare in Silver </i>novel adaptation that expands the story, the Cybermites being the Cybermen's version of cockroaches, Webley being thankful for Artie's sandwich, not seeing the new Cybermen abilities like super-speed in later episodes, "Nightmare in Silver" not playing to Neil Gaiman's strengths, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Dave Proctor, Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, my calling out Jesse for not sending in <i>Echo </i>feedback in to <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast, </i>finishing up our "Welcome to Our Nightmare" trilogy of episodes with "Nightmare of Eden", </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more</span><span style="font-family: 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Or you could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I discuss "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_of_Eden" target="_blank">Nightmare of Eden</a>", the fourth serial from <i>Doctor Who </i>Season 17 in 1979, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Lalla Ward as the Second Romana, David Brierley as the voice of K-9, and Lewis Flander as Professor Tryst!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-42048622356303525912024-01-30T20:06:00.001-05:002024-01-30T20:06:22.014-05:00SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW Casts Milly Alcock as Supergirl<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhQmMFldwqvbzZx7tXl0UitCFPsO-EcbS2wpyOeZDAmo-zcSZkpwyJZH0UPQgfjvj14h1AQkUsTyR6ddQtdNR3sKuduv3b-TAXbSF26axSBSsYh9ayyeCHOW_ci_vBbN9EPFFT-wHzAkdkJtTIlFB05_Gc0P0PdXB7udewdiCHxcPMFNwAWgTPpLDia0/s559/MillyAlcock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="559" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhQmMFldwqvbzZx7tXl0UitCFPsO-EcbS2wpyOeZDAmo-zcSZkpwyJZH0UPQgfjvj14h1AQkUsTyR6ddQtdNR3sKuduv3b-TAXbSF26axSBSsYh9ayyeCHOW_ci_vBbN9EPFFT-wHzAkdkJtTIlFB05_Gc0P0PdXB7udewdiCHxcPMFNwAWgTPpLDia0/w400-h326/MillyAlcock.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Girl of Steel is now a Woman of Tomorrow.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://deadline.com/2024/01/supergirl-milly-alcock-1235807989/" target="_blank">Deadline</a> is reporting that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milly_Alcock" target="_blank">Milly Alcock</a> has been cast as Kara Zor-El, also known to DC Comics fans as Supergirl, in the upcoming film version of Tom King and Bilquis Evely's 2021 limited series <i>Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">According to the article, Alcock beat out <i>CODA</i> actress Emilia Jones and Meg Donnelly, who voiced Supergirl in the DC animated movies <i>Legion of Super-Heroes</i> and <i>Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Alcock's Supergirl is expected by many to debut in James Gunn’s upcoming film <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5950044/" target="_blank">Superman: Legacy</a></i>, which is about to go before the cameras in Georgia, but Deadline claims that's not a certainty. At the very least, she'll appear in some DC-based project before starring in her solo feature, <i>Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.</i> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow</i> is an eight-issue miniseries that focuses on Kara Zor-El's quest through space, aided by Krypto, and is told from the perspective of Ruthye, a new character. Ruthye, an alien girl Kara meets along her journey, is looking for justice for her father's death.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Alcock, 23, is an Australian actress best known as the young <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaenyra_Targaryen" target="_blank">Rhaenyra Targaryen</a> in the HBO fantasy series <i>House of the Dragon</i>. In addition, she's appeared in episodes of the TV series <i>Upright, The Gloaming, </i>and <i>Reckoning.</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6iLzHXsAYoBSEXrTtvGLSK-ZylMr1TeFDecDeQeSJ7XcOigWMqIISKDsUNgELH4F7K0JDwVeTYlQeKnxBfoeWHpt2wVXUa-bWNzFeU8AbDHUGq47Z-j_BT9SDI3wfVV58YyM7hQm4a8/s1300/Supergirl.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1300" data-original-width="856" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6iLzHXsAYoBSEXrTtvGLSK-ZylMr1TeFDecDeQeSJ7XcOigWMqIISKDsUNgELH4F7K0JDwVeTYlQeKnxBfoeWHpt2wVXUa-bWNzFeU8AbDHUGq47Z-j_BT9SDI3wfVV58YyM7hQm4a8/s320/Supergirl.jpg" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span>Created in 1959 by Otto Binder, Al Plastino and Curt Swan, Supergirl first appeared in </span><em>Action Comics (vol.1) </em><span>#252 as Kara Zor-El, the daughter of Jor-El's brother Zor-El and cousin to Superman. She was the last survivor of Argo City, which had survived the destruction of the planet Krypton until meteorites of Green Kryptonite penetrated Argo City's protective barrier. Sent to Earth by Zor-El to be raised by her cousin, Kara acquired powers similar to Superman and adopted the secret identity of Linda Lee, a young girl at Midvale Orphanage. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_52">New 52</a> continuity, </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kara's ship lands as part of a meteor shower in </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Smallville, Kansas,</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> but burrows through the Earth and emerges in </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Siberia</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. Kara has no memory of the destruction of Krypton and believes herself to be dreaming. The military tracks her arrival, and a group of American soldiers in mechanized suits immediately attack her. Her powers start emerging as the fight goes on and terrify the surprised Kara. Superman arrives after she defeats the soldiers and tries to convince Kara that he is her cousin, but Kara, still believing that only three days have passed since she last saw baby Kal, accuses him of being an imposter and attacks him. Eventually, Kara accepts that Krypton has been destroyed and that Superman is indeed her grown-up cousin.</span><br /><br /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Alcock will be the fifth actress to portray the character in live action, after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Calle" target="_blank">Sasha Calle</a> in the 2023 film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash_(film)" target="_blank">The Flash</a>,</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Benoist" target="_blank">Melissa Benoist</a> on the </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">CBS/CW TV series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Supergirl</a>, </i></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Vandervoort" target="_blank">Laura Vandervoort</a> </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">on </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">WB/CW</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;"> series </span><em style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallville" target="_blank">Smallville</a>, </em><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Slater" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Helen Slater</a><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;"> in the 1984 film </span><em style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(film)" target="_blank">Supergirl</a> </em><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">that was a spinoff from the </span><em style="font-family: helvetica;">Superman </em><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">films starring Christopher Reeve. </span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">The character has also appeared a number of times in animation, including </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_The_Animated_Series" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank"><em>Superman: The Animated Series</em></a><em style="font-family: helvetica;"> </em><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">and </span><em style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_Unlimited" target="_blank">Justice League Unlimited</a> </em><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">(voiced by Nicholle Tom), and the </span><em style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Nation_Shorts#Super_Best_Friends_Forever" target="_blank">Super Best Friends Forever</a> </em><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">DC Nation animated shorts (voiced by Nicole Sullivan).</span></p><p><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Superman: Legacy </i>is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on <b>July 11, 2025.<br /><br /></b></span></p>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-49264285692747020232024-01-26T20:17:00.002-05:002024-01-26T20:25:59.149-05:00THE FANDOM ZONE 285: "Lowak" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjtSgV5yHa9ejKbqLo4UPciPBaz_9K56aB9agadPYYabyAaoArUNmf7Y1PjqcewerOr-7b0-vVDN4rnlkSgpJ5hNOAFjriQu99rYYAqM1LctmFx2ENlJ1E4J7Eq76z2GhA8udmZ6eIQWCMA6CYWFPjJpotf6cmruFzMe0wu20MbKOyuqKiwNg4XrHR2y8/s1400/TFZ%20Episode%20285.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjtSgV5yHa9ejKbqLo4UPciPBaz_9K56aB9agadPYYabyAaoArUNmf7Y1PjqcewerOr-7b0-vVDN4rnlkSgpJ5hNOAFjriQu99rYYAqM1LctmFx2ENlJ1E4J7Eq76z2GhA8udmZ6eIQWCMA6CYWFPjJpotf6cmruFzMe0wu20MbKOyuqKiwNg4XrHR2y8/w400-h400/TFZ%20Episode%20285.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<i>Buythedamnthing, buythedamnthing, buythedamnthing...HO! </i>All my relations!</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Skully, <i>Echo -- </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Lowak"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hello again, everyone!</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> DJ Nik and I are back for another new episode of <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i> This time, we</span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "Lowak", the second episode of the Marvel series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28miniseries%29" target="_blank">Echo</a></i>, featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Cody Lightning as Biscuits, and Graham Greene as Skully!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like Inter Milan winning the Supercoppa Italiana, Biscuits being very easily manipulated, wondering why the <i>Echo </i>episodes have so many writers, some background on Indigenous North American stickball, Lowak seeing a vision of her ancestor Chafa, the Lowak flashback establishing that Maya's family line has passed on exceptional abilities throughout the generations, Maya turning Biscuits into her henchman, Biscuits' comic relief balancing Maya's silent seriousness, wanting to see Biscuits with Scott Lang's crew, Echo turning into Popeye the Sailor Man, Biscuits being petrified of the wrath of Chula, Skully building a temporary replacement leg WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS, Chula transferring her hatred of Maya's father onto Maya, Skully dealing with white tourists, that awkward moment when Biscuits looks on in horror as Chula watches him drive by in her truck that he and Maya trashed, Biscuits selling his Playstation 4 for $125 or best offer, Biscuits accidentally telling Bonnie that Maya is in town, Chula going to Henry about Maya being in town, Henry trying to warn Maya about the people she cares about getting hurt in her war with the Kingpin's organization, the swingset asking to be shot, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, not getting Fandom Zone Fan Mail from Jesse Jackson, and more! 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Feel free to post a picture on our Facebook page of you or some other cool person you know wearing the shirt!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be sure to come back next week when DJ Nik and I discuss "Tuklo", the third episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Echo</a>,</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Devery Jacobs as Bonnie, and Chaske Spencer as Henry Lopez!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-80047015618703373072024-01-21T12:57:00.001-05:002024-01-21T12:57:20.864-05:00Millie Gibson to Leave DOCTOR WHO in 2025, Varada Sethu Becomes New Companion<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjpIjQv9UnwVQLhW-_XCTrl18x_8Ua8bFUXjLglfKjMzcruRQ-VmEy_zMDEq9qCoGGGUIfNwJ1fLGQYkFInpgqxdpfGyMWJp4Kl4hvvQIvY0O2MqRjkzkVEN6aoDSuxmRAL1QKbc01lmSzr09libtR6TMs0VlC22YO4EMuaZtscyWPcY9UOmJXdKL3aI/s596/MIllieGibsonVarada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="596" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjpIjQv9UnwVQLhW-_XCTrl18x_8Ua8bFUXjLglfKjMzcruRQ-VmEy_zMDEq9qCoGGGUIfNwJ1fLGQYkFInpgqxdpfGyMWJp4Kl4hvvQIvY0O2MqRjkzkVEN6aoDSuxmRAL1QKbc01lmSzr09libtR6TMs0VlC22YO4EMuaZtscyWPcY9UOmJXdKL3aI/w400-h231/MIllieGibsonVarada.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Goodbye, Ruby Sunday.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><a href="https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/doctor-who-millie-gibson-varada-sethu-1235880343/" target="_blank">Variety</a> </i>has confirmed an earlier report from British tabloid <i><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-companion-millie-gibson-31924485" target="_blank">The Mirror</a> </i>that <i>Doctor Who </i>star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Gibson" target="_blank">Millie Gibson</a>, who plays the Doctor's new companion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Sunday" target="_blank">Ruby Sunday</a>, will be leaving the series after just one full season. Gibson reportedly will be replaced by actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varada_Sethu" target="_blank">Varada Sethu</a> during the fifteenth season of the series that returned in 2005. Ncuti Gatwa, who plays the Fifteenth Doctor, will remain with the series.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">According to the original <i>Mirror </i>article, the decision to write out Ruby Sunday was made last year by showrunner Russell T Davies after filming on Gibson's first run ended. Reportedly, Gibson will not appear in the 2024 Christmas special later this year and will make only a handful of appearances across Gatwa’s second series as the Doctor during 2025. In next year’s series, her character is expected to appear in just three of the eight episodes, with one of them a standalone story wrapping up Ruby Sunday’s journey with the Doctor. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After that, Sethu will take over, who has already started filming at the studios in Cardiff.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">One of <i>The Mirror</i>'s sources reportedly stated, "Varada is a real gem, Russell was just blown away by her talent. The cast and crew have really warmed to her and he’s sure the fans will too."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sethu, 32, is probably best known as <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cinta_Kaz" target="_blank">Cinta Kaz</a> from the <i>Star Wars </i>TV drama series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Andor</a>. </i>She's also appeared as Shira in the movie <i>Jurassic World Dominion </i>and in the TV series <i>Doctors, Hard Sun, </i>and <i>Hanna.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Doctor Who </i>returns for the show's fourteenth season in <b>May 2024 </b>on Disney+.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-12945823589715168382024-01-19T19:36:00.002-05:002024-01-19T19:36:17.837-05:00THE FANDOM ZONE 284: "Chafa" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA4BMQnnIZpcpnKvhjHMtKRQx7pD5wripG-N8hKON5e8qnoLuhQ_D9EyY5z1Tue7scuUE0G_6iatVOJNhIoc-kcVqHV-WAFYQAqz1qGj87mlqr80OJCQjakzaSysLjIm4xx8QrvWIrehCWvUZnS0TGutEiEr7JJxRHMjhLa8NTRXPQN1xVnd6BKPMDPrg/s1400/TFZ%20Episode%20284.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA4BMQnnIZpcpnKvhjHMtKRQx7pD5wripG-N8hKON5e8qnoLuhQ_D9EyY5z1Tue7scuUE0G_6iatVOJNhIoc-kcVqHV-WAFYQAqz1qGj87mlqr80OJCQjakzaSysLjIm4xx8QrvWIrehCWvUZnS0TGutEiEr7JJxRHMjhLa8NTRXPQN1xVnd6BKPMDPrg/w400-h400/TFZ%20Episode%20284.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Kingpin had his run. It's time for a queen.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Maya Lopez, <i>Echo -- </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Chafa"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hello again, everyone!</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> We're back for another new episode of <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i> This time, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">DJ Nik and I </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "Chafa", the first episode of the new Marvel series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_%28miniseries%29" target="_blank">Echo</a></i>, featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin/Wilson Fisk, and Charlie Cox as Daredevil!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like Inter Milan's 5-1 victory over Monza, the opening theme song "Burning" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the creative decision to show events from what happened before in <i>Hawkeye </i>interspersed with new scenes, hints that the Marvel Netflix TV shows are now MCU canon, some comics background on Echo, Chafa's connections to Choctaw lore, Maya developing supernatural abilities, Maya's guilt that she was partially responsible for the car accident that cost her mother and her leg, Kingpin grooming Maya for the criminal underworld, finally getting to see Echo fight Daredevil, Charlie Cox's latest appearance as Daredevil feeling more like his Netflix series, waiting for Maya to seek vengeance on Wilson Fisk again, Maya's father being like Michael Corleone from <i>The Godfather, </i>Uncle Henry wanting to Make America Skate Again, Henry trying to warn Maya about going after the Kingpin's operation, wanting to know how Biscuits got his nickname, <i>Echo </i>bridging the events between <i>Hawkeye </i>and the upcoming <i>Daredevil: Born Again </i>series, Maya using a hair tie to launch a motorcycle through a store window at police, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, new Fandom Zone Fan Mail from Jesse Jackson, my being grateful for the podcast distraction from the beatdown the Cleveland Browns received in the NFL Wild Card game against the Houston Texas, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more!</span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You can now 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Feel free to post a picture on our Facebook page of you or some other cool person you know wearing the shirt!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be sure to come back next week when DJ Nik and I discuss "Lowak", the second episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Echo</a>,</i><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> featuring Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez, Chaske Spencer as Henry Lopez, and Cody Lightning as Biscuits!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-35475942292477771112024-01-18T18:17:00.000-05:002024-01-18T18:17:02.341-05:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 305: "The Nightmare Fair" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25OpJ7jDOmWFIpRHzYhj2932F8ygX4E_KpxbatapuhsoCorB2QgzhGbkRxbzwWtpStIjZGKqIdBRGQFzxBRXuYGuL1cVREW_KqDsYKDCv-SFDDBVUEraIH9YZ-LAnZD2bQDqNs7my11GpPd7-vAfLAQZ80RugaKkdB6FRk0YKDD5dAmcwuqldMkxv0mY/s1050/NSE%20Episode%20305.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1050" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25OpJ7jDOmWFIpRHzYhj2932F8ygX4E_KpxbatapuhsoCorB2QgzhGbkRxbzwWtpStIjZGKqIdBRGQFzxBRXuYGuL1cVREW_KqDsYKDCv-SFDDBVUEraIH9YZ-LAnZD2bQDqNs7my11GpPd7-vAfLAQZ80RugaKkdB6FRk0YKDD5dAmcwuqldMkxv0mY/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20305.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"A being the Time Lords couldn't handle?</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br />"Oh, there are lots of them. Time Lords generally aren't very good at handling things, especially themselves. I just...the exception to the rule."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Peri Brown and the Sixth Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The Nightmare Fair"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "</span><a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nightmare_Fair_(audio_story)" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">The Nightmare Fair</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the first audio drama from Series One of Big Finish Productions' </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: The Lost Stories </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">range released in 2009, featuring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown, and David Bailie as the Toymaker!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like the two of us waiting to see what happens to our teams in the NFL playoffs, Jesse rocking the brand-new <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i>t-shirt, our schedule for the first third of 2024, TeePublic having a terrible search field, writer Graham Williams' TV writing pseudonym "David Agnew", Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant giving credit to Big Finish for making the Sixth Doctor more popular, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Bailie as Cotton in the </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Pirates of the Caribbean </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">movies, "The Nightmare Fair" originally being written as the first serial of the original Season 23 that was axed by BBC Controller Michael Grade, the horrible benefit song "Doctor in Distress" to bring <i>Doctor Who </i>back to TV, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the ending of "Revelation of the Daleks" being badly edited to remove the reference to Blackpool to set up "The Nightmare Fair", original plans for Michael Gough to reprise the Toymaker in the TV version of "The Nightmare Fair", Peri wondering why the Doctor wants to go to an amusement park, Jesse's thoughts on David Bailie's Toymaker after seeing "The Giggle", Peri finally screaming with an actual purpose, my wondering why Peri (as an American) would call cotton candy "candy floss", the Doctor feeling bad for Shardlow, my watching wrestling in the '80s, wishing SB had appeared in Part 1, Kevin annoying the Doctor by constantly talking about broccoli, the Toymaker loving humans because they love games, video arcade games being popular in the '80s, the hints of the Toymaker's secret origin, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Holly Mac and Sandi from Oregon, Xan Sprouse and I watching <i>Scrooged </i>weeks after Christmas, Neil Gaiman writing "Nightmare in Silver", </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Apple Podcasts -- </span><b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/next-stop-everywhere-doctor/id910617706?mt=2" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a><br /></span></b>Google Podcasts -- <b><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXh0c3RvcGV2ZXJ5d2hlcmUubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M" 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sans-serif">, which you can find on TeePublic <b>RIGHT</b> </span><b><a href="https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/54490077-next-stop-everywhere-2023?store_id=232500" target="_blank">HERE</a>! </b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite </span><i>Doctor Who </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">podcast and travelling through time and space! Or you could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I discuss "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_in_Silver" target="_blank">Nightmare in Silver</a>", the twelfth episode from <i>Doctor Who </i>Series Seven in 2013, featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor, Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, Warwick Davis as Porridge, and the return of the Cybermen!<br /></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-39943625053817218662024-01-11T19:12:00.000-05:002024-01-11T19:12:11.721-05:00DRUNK CINEMA 055: "Scrooged" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIkGrQd1NwGwTaytH32HCaTS_UMBE6H9jDDPaCuo5rlhuAK4VjqbvgnSLsfw8qPEPsH6ZYJo4g8J0J9SUX8ST_JQLsWamLUSDd8GMMTn5eqKm2UXdmmTthjcbBWCzRNKqyPpGBqTQdsvvYxlZQFVKw_hp5PUtGG_k2JqqOPLbVsv1dXfriVprIrp_lGho/s1249/Drunk%20Cinema%20Episode%20055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="1249" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIkGrQd1NwGwTaytH32HCaTS_UMBE6H9jDDPaCuo5rlhuAK4VjqbvgnSLsfw8qPEPsH6ZYJo4g8J0J9SUX8ST_JQLsWamLUSDd8GMMTn5eqKm2UXdmmTthjcbBWCzRNKqyPpGBqTQdsvvYxlZQFVKw_hp5PUtGG_k2JqqOPLbVsv1dXfriVprIrp_lGho/w400-h400/Drunk%20Cinema%20Episode%20055.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The bitch hit me with a toaster!"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Frank Cross, <i>Scrooged</i></span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello again, movie fans! My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of </span><em>Drunk Cinema! </em>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">watch </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooged" target="_blank">Scrooged</a></i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, the 1988 Christmas fantasy comedy directed by Richard Donner, starring Bill Murray as Frank Cross, Karen Allen as Claire Phillips, and Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This time, Xan and I discuss things like Xan being the 6th highest-ranked woman in the state of Ohio for pinball, Xan's new intro song, why we're watching <i>Scrooged </i>two weeks after Christmas, Xan being a fan non-traditional Christmas movies, Danny Elfman's scores being very similar to each other, deciding our next Richard Donner film, John Glover in a remake of <i>Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, </i>Carol Kane being the best thing in the movie, the "Father Loves Beaver" joke, broadcast TV being appointment television, John Forsythe's makeup as Lew Hayward, David Johansen in the New York Dolls, Frank's life working out because he sat on his ass watching television, live-action kids TV shows, why Michael J. Fox chose the "J" instead of his middle initial "A", Bill Murray and Richard Donner not getting along on set, Richard Donner "firing" the entire cast and crew so they could have Christmas off from filming, The Ghost of Christmas Present being a demented version of Glinda the Good Witch and Tinkerbell, Xan's favorite line in <i>Scrooged, </i>the gag about Trump Tower being in the sewer, taking the word "zerbert" back, cheesy cameos from C-list TV stars, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new Drunk Mail from Christine Peruski, our second attempt to watch <i>Never Say Never Again, </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">nd more!</span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our podcast and subscribe to us, you can find us on...</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Apple Podcasts -- <b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drunk-cinema/id1540510159" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a><br /></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Google Podcasts -- <b><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9kcnVua2NpbmVtYS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Direct MP3 downloads/Libsyn -- </span><span style="color: #888888; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizirjGVquCMlo5IJsTLfCpdAVy5KBHdxmmt6s2lPjTEcwtYPdJMFrKvIl11OBVZqK0eVZTf3ERoktddqTv7qxnI90STAdbpZH_7_ZbhDSqJKu00MPai4PO_IInR17qJegkv9eWYxKQTEr_EGQ0AlbY6Mf4e724RhY6s8kPkUB4-FBZzHu2s-6UkY4RgXo/s1414/NSE%20Episode%20304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="1414" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizirjGVquCMlo5IJsTLfCpdAVy5KBHdxmmt6s2lPjTEcwtYPdJMFrKvIl11OBVZqK0eVZTf3ERoktddqTv7qxnI90STAdbpZH_7_ZbhDSqJKu00MPai4PO_IInR17qJegkv9eWYxKQTEr_EGQ0AlbY6Mf4e724RhY6s8kPkUB4-FBZzHu2s-6UkY4RgXo/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20304.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm going to have to report this."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Name -- The Doctor. Occupation -- <i>not</i> a doctor. Current status -- just passing by. Employer -- myself. Address -- that blue box over there. Now, if you don't mind, I just got snowmanned, and I would like to go home</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Police Officer and the Fifteenth Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The Church on Ruby Road"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we're </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">joined by special guest companions DJ Nik & Holly Mac as we discuss "<a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Church_on_Ruby_Road_(TV_story)" target="_blank">The Church on Ruby Road</a>", the 2023 </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Christmas Special, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and introducing Millie Gibson as new companion Ruby Sunday!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse, Nik, Holly, and I discuss things like everything being right with the world now that <i>Doctor Who </i>has a Christmas Special again, my being unable to say no to Holly, Jesse's reaction to getting the first <i>Doctor Who </i>Christmas Special since 2017, Nik liking that the Christmas Special wasn't heavy on Christmas, Ruby probably getting a ton of Rolling Stones jokes over the years, Nik discouraging me from watching <i>Venom: Let There Be Carnage, </i>Davina McCall as the Davinadroid in "Bad Wolf", Anita Dobson being the wife of Queen's Brian May, this episode being the second time since the 2005 relaunch that a Doctor's first full post-regeneration story was a Christmas Special, the Easter Egg with Henrik's department store from "Rose", Angela Wynter being only 12 years older than Michelle Greenridge, our thoughts on Ncuti Gatwa's first full episode and his chemistry with Millie Gibson, my happiness at the Doctor saying he was adopted, fostering also getting great representation, the Doctor and Ruby both having a mystery of where they came from, Millie Gibson looking like the love child of Billie Piper and Jenna Coleman, George Lucas' idea of the Midichlorians to explain how Anakin Skywalker was created, our theory that Ruby was the one who left Baby Ruby at the church, our hope that Ruby won't fall in love with the Doctor, Cherry flirting with the Fifteenth Doctor, the Doctor being happy that he's not getting slapped by a companion's mother for once, my wanting Cherry to get her cup of tea already, wondering what Carla's reaction is going to be when Ruby returns to Earth in 2024, Carla becoming a cynical person without Ruby in her life, Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson both having great singing voices, Nik's definition of ELF, the homage to <i>Gremlins, </i>the Doctor being lucky he didn't impale Baby Ruby with the church steeple, waiting for the complaints that "The Goblin Song" is about eating babies, our theories about who Mrs. Flood could be, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, the passing of <i>Doctor Who </i>actor Richard Franklin, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Megan Stover, Ken from Chicago, and Dave Proctor, my scheduling our next episode on the fly, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Apple Podcasts -- </span><b><span style="color: #888888;"><a 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face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">And just in time for the new era of <i>Doctor Who, </i>we now have a BRAND NEW </span><b><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i>t-shirt</b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">, which you can find on TeePublic <b>RIGHT</b> </span><b><a href="https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/54490077-next-stop-everywhere-2023?store_id=232500" target="_blank">HERE</a>! </b><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This spiffy shirt looks great when you're listening to your favorite </span><i>Doctor Who </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">podcast and travelling through time and space! Or your could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I discuss "<a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nightmare_Fair_(audio_story)" target="_blank">The Nightmare Fair</a>", the first audio drama from Series One of the <i>Doctor Who: The Lost Stories </i>range from Big Finish Productions, featuring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown, and David Bailie as the Toymaker!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-81549441202593781502023-12-25T16:40:00.001-05:002023-12-25T16:40:37.028-05:00DOCTOR WHO Season 1 Teaser Hints at the Beatles and the Return of Mel & Rose Noble<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDc7XvdN50GAXVYD8cKnSX5yB02TIkd60gSSo-tvZjbR-YVT4i3fRe3_smbKW_bSeF5-Z193nfvz6YH1GBRuUxG0XgY0xliM8yXw3TaD5Ed6ZsRUnHaKp2NC4e4-6XANbh91IAXruFfUyAIpWIQW1S0DBE1draPpzrZ2q3GUOS4tIxYcgsF8Q-3hNt6Q/s909/DoctorWhoS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="909" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiDc7XvdN50GAXVYD8cKnSX5yB02TIkd60gSSo-tvZjbR-YVT4i3fRe3_smbKW_bSeF5-Z193nfvz6YH1GBRuUxG0XgY0xliM8yXw3TaD5Ed6ZsRUnHaKp2NC4e4-6XANbh91IAXruFfUyAIpWIQW1S0DBE1draPpzrZ2q3GUOS4tIxYcgsF8Q-3hNt6Q/w400-h291/DoctorWhoS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Will the Beatles sing a rendition of "She Loves Who" (Yeah Yeah Yeah)?</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The <i>Doctor Who </i>team has released a 30-second teaser for the upcoming Season 1/Series 14/Season 40 of <i>Doctor Who, </i>the first season featuring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncuti_Gatwa" target="_blank">Ncuti Gatwa</a> as the Fifteenth Doctor and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Gibson" target="_blank">Millie Gibson</a> as new companion Ruby Sunday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The teaser opens with the Doctor and Ruby inside the spacious new TARDIS console room, with the Doctor telling Ruby they're heading "Into the vortex." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I have the whole universe at my fingertips," exclaims the Doctor in a voiceover as we see the Doctor and Ruby traveling back to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_era" target="_blank">Regency Era</a> featuring guest star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Varma" target="_blank">Indira Varma</a>, playing a character called "the Duchess."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Next, we're off to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_Road_Studios" target="_blank">Abbey Road Studios</a> in the 1960s, where we see four mop-toped lads from Liverpool about to take it from the top, hinting that the Doctor may finally get to meet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" target="_blank">the Beatles</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In another voiceover, someone tells Ruby, "Ruby, there are powers beyond the universe" as we see drag queen <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinkx_Monsoon" target="_blank">Jinkx Monsoon</a> in villainous form. Ruby seems to reply, "Are you getting scared 'cause you're just babbling now?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As we see various monsters in fleeting images, we glimpse the Fifteenth Doctor riding on the back of Melanie Bush's motorbike as he yells, "Mel, faster!"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The Doctor tells Ruby, "No job. No boss. Just fun" as we then see him give an exuberant hug to Rose Noble (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Finney" target="_blank">Yasmin Finney</a>) as they reunite at UNIT's new headquarters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Lastly, as we see the Doctor hugging Ruby in the doorway of the TARDIS, we hear him say in another voiceover, "I'd love it if you came with me."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out the brand-new teaser, you can view it below thanks to the official <i>Doctor Who </i>channel on YouTube...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="444" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RlyPLWz-e1U" width="534" youtube-src-id="RlyPLWz-e1U"></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Doctor Who</i> returns for the new Season 1 in <b>Spring 2024.</b></span></p>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-1205219613537717002023-12-24T18:32:00.002-05:002023-12-24T18:32:53.110-05:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 303: "The Giggle" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkPosY8gXSyslGFmUmIPsK7RKVf5U15_rkSsA_dz9Y80v14jwAsg9WnM6U5UU0Qr6Icq1rPiZLjdkMjjN14IvICvv5anfZWl8rkq0irS_osG97xwyGHrTVka3uGSHirtGIHxRdDi1qT1h4KGWisyRp0dwV_JIi7hWC1nAtg-d0lZjEeZ2wh50vYNwSg8I/s1416/NSE%20Episode%20303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkPosY8gXSyslGFmUmIPsK7RKVf5U15_rkSsA_dz9Y80v14jwAsg9WnM6U5UU0Qr6Icq1rPiZLjdkMjjN14IvICvv5anfZWl8rkq0irS_osG97xwyGHrTVka3uGSHirtGIHxRdDi1qT1h4KGWisyRp0dwV_JIi7hWC1nAtg-d0lZjEeZ2wh50vYNwSg8I/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20303.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Don't go thinking you've got an excuse. The human race might be clever, and bright, and brilliant -- it's also savage, and venal, and relentless. All the anger out there on the streets! The lies, the righteousness, that's human, that's you! That's who you are! Using your intelligence to be stupid. Poisoning the world! And hating each other, you've never needed any help with that! But today, something else is using your worst attributes. Playing with you. Like toys."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- The Fourteenth Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The Giggle"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we're joined by special guest DJ Nik to </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "</span><a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Giggle_(TV_story)" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">The Giggle</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the third </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">60th Anniversary Special, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker, and the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse, Nik and I discuss things like Nik getting the Next Stop hat trick, "The Giggle" finally feeling like a 60th Anniversary Special, "The Giggle" being filled with satire and social commentary about the world becoming crazier and angrier, Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson and Dr. Horrible, the return of Bonnie Langford as Melanie "Mel" Bush, the return of the Toymaker for the first time since 1966's "The Celestial Toymaker", the various attempts to bring the Toymaker back since then, Russell T Davies realizing that the Toymaker would make a much stronger antagonist than a two-foot tall puppet, "The Giggle" almost including a scene mentioning Wilf's passing, Neil Patrick Harris being an accomplished amateur magician, who was actually the first redhead to travel in the TARDIS as a companion, why this probably won't be the last time we see David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor facing yet another insurmountable threat in the Toymaker, the Toymaker's puppet show laying out the emotional toll the Doctor went through during the Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall's era, the Fourteenth Doctor being symbolic of the human race going from one crisis to the next crisis to the next, the Fourteenth Doctor looking gaunt and burned out, Neil Patrick Harris taking over from Michael Gough as the Toymaker, some early speculation about who "The One Who Waits" could be, Russell T Davies' love of campy villain musical numbers, another homage to the end of <i>Flash Gordon (1980)</i> with someone with red nail polish picking up the Toymaker's gold tooth containing the Master, Kate Stewart showing her ugly side by getting all ableist on Shirley, UNIT probably getting more "W"s in the win column if they had their own spinoff series, future plans for David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor probably being on hold until after Tennant films <i>Good Omens </i>Season 3, a potential <i>UNIT </i>spinoff series also being a potential series to bring back classic <i>Doctor Who </i>companions on a regular basis, the Fourteenth Doctor being able to sit down and spend time with a family, Ncuti Gatwa's debut as the Fifteenth Doctor, Jesse building a Spotify playlist for what's on the Fifteenth Doctor's jukebox, the Fifteenth Doctor trying to reassure the Fourteenth Doctor, our favorite quotes of the episode, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Sandi from Oregon, Dave Proctor, Holly Mac, and Aaron Case, Jesse having to bail on the episode early, the debut of "The Goblin Song" from "The Church on Ruby Road", </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Apple Podcasts -- </span><b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/next-stop-everywhere-doctor/id910617706?mt=2" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a><br /></span></b>Google Podcasts -- <b><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXh0c3RvcGV2ZXJ5d2hlcmUubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></b><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Direct MP3 downloads/Libsyn -- </span><b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="http://nextstopeverywhere.libsyn.com/" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></span></b><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Spotify -- </span><b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/36aj1TpL1Nu4vRWsMbpkaN" 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travelling through time and space! Or your could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I are joined by special guest companions DJ Nik & Holly Mac as we discuss "The Church on Ruby Road", the 2023 <i>Doctor Who </i>Christmas Special, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and introducing Mille Gibson as new companion Ruby Sunday!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-38983392024444582602023-12-23T17:49:00.004-05:002023-12-23T17:52:15.776-05:00DRUNK CINEMA 054: "The Maltese Falcon (1941)" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI5GLPWb7n2zgq-WlkatIXjmJiCIhWGoETA9KY-eq7ObJIR0kW5uqY6dO6bdQC6Hr2VGmpC64HwR2NEs-8k6G_tW3B98dmC-DGn-VYnq38Z0GE2ZE_DyIj1Opih3x8SctWqokU1OUwJRvO2LsbFmqKeMwj_-Y3a9CNqptPoDLDNjW346r1cddP-gyxd7k/s1249/Drunk%20Cinema%20Episode%20054.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1249" data-original-width="1249" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI5GLPWb7n2zgq-WlkatIXjmJiCIhWGoETA9KY-eq7ObJIR0kW5uqY6dO6bdQC6Hr2VGmpC64HwR2NEs-8k6G_tW3B98dmC-DGn-VYnq38Z0GE2ZE_DyIj1Opih3x8SctWqokU1OUwJRvO2LsbFmqKeMwj_-Y3a9CNqptPoDLDNjW346r1cddP-gyxd7k/w400-h400/Drunk%20Cinema%20Episode%20054.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens, we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's -- it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere."<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Sam Spade, <i>The Maltese Falcon (1941)</i></span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello again, movie fans! My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of </span><em>Drunk Cinema! </em>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">pay tribute to Xan's father Paul Hess by watching <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_%281941_film%29" target="_blank">The Maltese Falcon</a></i>, the 1941 film noir directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, Mary Astor as Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo, and Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">This time, Xan and I discuss things like my seeing Xan at GalaxyCon Columbus, <i>The Maltese Falcon </i>being Xan's father's favorite movie, Xan and her mom giving her father a replica of the Maltese Falcon statue, Xan's dad loving <i>Adventures of Superman </i>with George Reeves, John Huston not being a good director of musicals, Gen Z not watching movies, our favorite Marx Brothers movies, why Xan isn't drinking this episode, my coming off paint fumes, 1940s phone numbers, some background on tongue pushing, Sam and Brigid playing one another, Gutman being an obvious name for a heavyset man, wondering if you can still buy smoking jackets for men, Sam having sex with his partner's wife and his partner's killer, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new Drunk Mail from Aaron Case and Dave Proctor, the <i>Doctor Who </i>60th Anniversary Specials, our upcoming watch of <i>Scrooged, </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">a</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">nd more!</span></p><div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our podcast and subscribe to us, you can find us on...</span></p><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Apple Podcasts -- <b><span style="color: #888888;"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drunk-cinema/id1540510159" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a><br /></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Google Podcasts -- <b><a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9kcnVua2NpbmVtYS5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Direct MP3 downloads/Libsyn -- </span><span style="color: #888888; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-Ot6oRlbOP5gd_WqogOmTPNOaEMSR2a_sGUb4gsKeLsYTeZ8F0wu-T9KC_Mh7PVJH0C7w8GUHq1XRTYGU_WOVIjIfGS20xJri_zl4IWJzgKLN_kJ3edUjG3HajaX0aGUZp5c9sfbk9kvoN28FyH0xS1lBATEw2jLYCryuzg-FUYj_J6b0Y3o49vo3Xg/s1416/NSE%20Episode%20302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="1416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-Ot6oRlbOP5gd_WqogOmTPNOaEMSR2a_sGUb4gsKeLsYTeZ8F0wu-T9KC_Mh7PVJH0C7w8GUHq1XRTYGU_WOVIjIfGS20xJri_zl4IWJzgKLN_kJ3edUjG3HajaX0aGUZp5c9sfbk9kvoN28FyH0xS1lBATEw2jLYCryuzg-FUYj_J6b0Y3o49vo3Xg/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20302.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Wilfred Mott! <i>Ohhh, </i>now I feel better. Now nothing is wrong, nothing in the whole wide world! </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello, me old soldier!"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"I never thought I'd see you again after all these years. Oh, Doctor, that lovely face! It's like springtime.</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- The Fourteenth Doctor and Wilfred Mott, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Wild Blue Yonder"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we're joined by special guest DJ Nik to </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">discuss "</span><a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Wild_Blue_Yonder_(TV_story)" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Wild Blue Yonder</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the second </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">60th Anniversary Special, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, and the final appearance of Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse, Nik and I discuss things like Jesse starting a new phase of his life, Nik worrying about Inter Milan, Nathaniel Curtis appearing in Big Finish's <i>UNIT</i> audios, Jesse watching a Hallmark movie before watching "Wild Blue Yonder", the segment of <i>Doctor Who </i>fandom freaking out that the Fourteenth Doctor might be gay, finally seeing differences between the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors, the top-notch special effects (!), </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the song where "Wild Blue Yonder" comes from, the Fourth Doctor's meeting with Isaac Newton, "Wild Blue Yonder" being dedicated to Bernard Cribbins, the intentional confusion of the two conversations between the Doctors and the Donnas, the Not-Things knowing that the Doctor couldn't resist thinking about the mystery, the ship being a character in itself, the similarities to Russell T Davies' previous story "Midnight", Russell T Davies making you care about the companions more than other writers, the Fourteenth Doctor angrily losing his cool, Donna figuring things about before the Doctor, the line "My arms are too long" having a very David Lynch/<i>Twin Peaks </i>vibe, whether Donna actually remembers what she knew as the DoctorDonna, the Fourteenth Doctor choosing poorly, the recurring "mavity" gag, Nik's dad being a fan of Sir Isaac Newton, Nik being a fan of Bernard Cribbins from the BBC series <i>Jackanory, </i>Wilf keeping watch for his family at the age of 93, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">our favorite quotes of the episode, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">new </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">feedback from Dave Proctor, Holly Mac, Dustin Burcham, and Megan from Oregon, Jesse being the Podcast King, the Columbus Blue Jackets inevitably letting me down, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and more!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you'd like to check out our latest episode, you can find us on...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , 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Or your could order all sorts of cool </span><i>Next Stop Everywhere </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">merch</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> there as well!</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Be sure to come back for the next episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere </i></span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">as Jesse and I are joined once again by special guest companion DJ Nik as we discuss "<a href="https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Giggle_(TV_story)" target="_blank">The Giggle</a>", the third <i>Doctor Who </i>60th Anniversary Special, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Neil Patrick Harris as the Toymaker, and the introduction of Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-6229223721320004672023-12-05T18:29:00.000-05:002023-12-05T18:29:07.173-05:00NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 301: "The Star Beast" Is Up!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrMnywGVVR4Ju6b0FGxRScias5ZxOmXZxLP51lNzzUDPEJS9T2zYPeX468z0p7zc6heOGzwQBKo1f8cQqYH3x_-d_BrEC6OQfCvxki8af35O-NK9V57fWXS7JpPBwyi9IhZvmDV0oDUoFPI3P-h6cResLlMtRWPRzCcWiGCiu6czY6AO1bLYKIYH20UU/s1018/NSE%20Episode%20301.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1018" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlrMnywGVVR4Ju6b0FGxRScias5ZxOmXZxLP51lNzzUDPEJS9T2zYPeX468z0p7zc6heOGzwQBKo1f8cQqYH3x_-d_BrEC6OQfCvxki8af35O-NK9V57fWXS7JpPBwyi9IhZvmDV0oDUoFPI3P-h6cResLlMtRWPRzCcWiGCiu6czY6AO1bLYKIYH20UU/w400-h400/NSE%20Episode%20301.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">But I still don't get it. The TARDIS can change, all right, but...what about your <i>face?</i> Why did it come back?</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"<br />"Does there have to be a reason?"<br />"With your life? Yes!"<br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">-- Donna Noble and the Fourteenth Doctor, </span><i style="font-family: helvetica;">Doctor Who: </i><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"The Star Beast"</span><p></p><p></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! </i>This time</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">, we're joined by special guest DJ Nik to discuss "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Beast_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">The Star Beast</a>", </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the first <i>Doctor Who</i> 60th Anniversary Special, featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble, and Miriam Margolyes as the voice of Beep the Meep!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, Jesse, Nik and I discuss things like Jesse's Texas Rangers winning the World Series right after we recorded Episode 300, Nik joining us for the 60th Anniversary Specials, Donna and Rose's favorite musical, finally getting a new episode after an entire year, our initial reactions to the return of <i>Doctor Who </i>under Russell T Davies, my love of the new opening credits and less love for the closing theme arrangement, some comics background on the original 1980 comic serial in <i>Doctor Who Weekly </i>#19-26 by Pat Mills and Dave (<i>Watchmen</i>) Gibbons, the Fourteenth Doctor comic serial "Liberation of the Daleks", the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate, expecting that we'll get an answer for why the Fourteenth Doctor has the Tenth Doctor's face, wondering why Disney+ recommends <i>WandaVision </i>after you watch <i>Doctor Who </i>instead of <i>Loki, </i>Fourteen behaving very similarly to Ten, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">the new uses for the Sonic Screwdriver,</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> Donna being a better mother to Rose than her mother Sylvia was to her, Donna growing as a person since she left the Tenth Doctor, Shirley Anne Bingham probably becoming a cast member in a <i>UNIT</i> spinoff series, Donna passing the Metacrisis power onto Rose, wondering why only women 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Mobius and Loki Laufeyson, <i>Loki -- </i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Glorious Purpose (2023)"</span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Hello again, everyone!</span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> We're back for another new episode of <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i> This time, </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">DJ Nik and I discuss "Glorious Purpose</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">", the final episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(TV_series)" target="_blank">Loki</a> </i>Season 2, featuring Tom Hiddleston as Loki Laufeyson, Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius, Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie, and Jonathan Majors as Victor Timely!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like my wife and I moving ten minutes down the street, Nik's Inter Milan team taking a break for the Nationals, the <i>Loki</i> Season 2 finale title being the same as the Season 1 premiere title, hoping some of the <i>Loki </i>supporting characters appear elsewhere in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Loki quoting T.S. 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Feel free to post a picture on our Facebook page of you or some other cool person you know wearing the shirt!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Be sure to come back in January when DJ Nik and I discuss the first episode of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(miniseries)" target="_blank">Echo</a>, </i>the next Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series, featuring the return of Alaqua Cox as Echo/Maya Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio as The Kingpin/Wilson Fisk,<i> </i>on <i>The Fandom Zone Podcast!</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div></div></div></div>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102296809123181489.post-39848775659220734162023-11-23T16:54:00.003-05:002023-11-23T16:54:40.079-05:00DOCTOR WHO: 60 Years of Time and Space<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLApGSbAiQwASPABxLD0iJbpTL5jncIidBkwlyqfGa9VH8dt_W09keuxr3VXwD-wMYnxQ6updFrxQSfAQf-3KAk3hKXYbGeGZwfB5dL89EetUHXuTSRAH3ZpmyouGqp0rjQVlbuJ7gqkigMmBdDnV3u-KI6NOup6EUYuFyWamtc7q4V164z4cd96fbVHQ/s640/Doctor%20Who%2060th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="640" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLApGSbAiQwASPABxLD0iJbpTL5jncIidBkwlyqfGa9VH8dt_W09keuxr3VXwD-wMYnxQ6updFrxQSfAQf-3KAk3hKXYbGeGZwfB5dL89EetUHXuTSRAH3ZpmyouGqp0rjQVlbuJ7gqkigMmBdDnV3u-KI6NOup6EUYuFyWamtc7q4V164z4cd96fbVHQ/w400-h289/Doctor%20Who%2060th.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And to think, it all started in a junkyard.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sixty years ago today, on November 23, 1963, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who" target="_blank">Doctor Who</a> </i>premiered on the BBC, becoming the world's longest-running science fiction TV series. The very first episode, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Unearthly_Child" target="_blank">An Unearthly Child</a>", launched in the shadow of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas the day before, forcing a repeat the following week. The first four-part serial introduced the world to the enigmatic time-traveler known only as the Doctor (then called "Dr. Who" in the closing credits), his granddaughter Susan Foreman, and Susan's teachers from Coal Hill School, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. It also introduced the world to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS" target="_blank">TARDIS</a> (short for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), the definitive time machine ever imagined, somehow bigger on the inside and still stuck all these decades later in the shape of a 1960s British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box" target="_blank">police box</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After an incredibly strong first episode that began the adventures in space and time, the remaining three episodes in that first black-and-white serial were rather dull and plodding, with our first TARDIS team encountering a tribe of prehistoric cavemen who defined their leader simply by whomever could make fire. The second serial, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daleks" target="_blank">The Daleks</a>", was considerably more interesting, a seven-parter from writer Terry Nation that took us to the planet Skaro for our first encounter with the Doctor's most popular enemies, you guessed it, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek" target="_blank">Daleks</a>. The army of blobby aliens piloting miniature metal tanks with an egg whisk on one arm and a toilet plunger on the other became insanely popular with British kids, who went around "Exterminating" their classmates on the playground. Even better, <i>Doctor Who</i>'s ratings from the first serial had nearly doubled by the end of "The Daleks", and lo, a science fiction legend was born. The show became a pop culture hit, even spawning two feature films -- <i>Dr. Who and the Daleks </i>and <i>Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD </i>-- starring Peter Cushing as a version of the Doctor with very few similarities to William Hartnell's First Doctor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The rest of <i>Doctor Who</i>'s infancy in the 1960s continued to lay the foundation for the series, when Susan became the first of the Doctor's companions to leave in the tenth serial, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalek_Invasion_of_Earth" target="_blank">The Dalek Invasion of Earth</a>." Ian and Barbara soon followed, with only star William Hartnell continuing on as the Doctor with a number of replacement companions, until his deteriorating health affected his ability to remember his lines and ultimately forced him to leave early in Season 4, in the serial "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tenth_Planet" target="_blank">The Tenth Planet</a>" that also introduced another group of popular villains known as the Cybermen. At the end of that story, the show discovered an amazing way to continue on whenever the lead actor left the role of the alien Doctor, by having them "regenerate" into a brand-new incarnation played by another actor with a different persona. Patrick Troughton became the new Second Doctor, making his full debut in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tenth_Planet" target="_blank">The Power of the Daleks</a>" and soon won over Hartnell's fans, ensuring the show's survival. Troughton, along with actors Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) and Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot), left the series at the end of Season 6, as <i>Doctor Who </i>closed out its original black-and-white era.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1970, the show began airing colorized episodes, with Jon Pertwee debuting as the Third Doctor as the Doctor began an exile on Earth, forced upon him by his people, the Time Lords. Pertwee's first story, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearhead_from_Space" target="_blank">Spearhead from Space</a>", paired the Doctor up with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIT" target="_blank">UNIT</a>, a fictional military organization that investigated the strange and unusual, introduced in a previous Troughton serial. Pertwee's era showed the Doctor could be a James Bond-esque man of action in addition to a scientific genius, with his main enemy and fellow Time Lord, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">The Master</a>, introduced as the Professor Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes. This era </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">also gave fans the definitive companion in the form of Elisabeth Sladen's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Smith" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Sarah Jane Smith</a>, <span style="font-family: helvetica;">who continued with the series as Tom Baker took over the lead role in 1974's "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_(Doctor_Who)" style="font-family: helvetica;" target="_blank">Robot</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;">". As the mad, eccentric Fourth Doctor, Baker took the series to a new height in popularity over the course of seven seasons and became many fans' favorite of the four lead actors, at least for the following thirty years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 1981, Tom Baker left the role in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logopolis">Logopolis</a>", paving the way for Peter Davison's younger, more handsome Fifth Doctor. Like Troughton, Davison had the challenge of winning over the previous Doctor's fans, but proved up to the task over the course of the next three seasons, including the 20th anniversary special, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Doctors" target="_blank">The Five Doctors</a>", that teamed the First, Second, Third, and Fifth Doctors, with the Fourth Doctor excluded (apart from old footage from the then-incomplete serial "Shada") due to Tom Baker's refusal to return. Davison exited the series in 1984, which happened to be around the same time that my 15-year-old self discovered <i>Doctor Who </i>on PBS in America, with Tom Baker's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keeper_of_Traken" target="_blank">The Keeper of Traken</a>" being the serial that made me a Whovian, even after all these decades later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Sadly, the rest of the 1980s was not as kind to the series, as Colin Baker's arrogant Sixth Doctor proved unpopular with fans. Ratings declined, and then-BBC1 controller <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Grade" target="_blank">Michael Grade</a> expressed his disapproval of the series, slashing the show's paltry budget even further. In an attempt to salvage the series, Colin Baker was fired and in 1987, Sylvester McCoy was brought in as the more Troughton-esque Seventh Doctor for the show's final three seasons, which showed a marginal improvement in overall quality but failed to restore the show's ratings. At long last, Michael Grade did what many of the Doctor's enemies couldn't, and <i>Doctor Who </i>ended in 1989's with McCoy's final serial, the ironically-named "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">Survival</a>."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">The 1990s became <i>Doctor Who</i>'s "wilderness years", with the only new episode being a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_(film)" target="_blank">TV movie in 1996</a> that introduced Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor after McCoy reprised the role for an early regeneration scene. The TV movie was intended as a backdoor pilot for a new American-produced revival of <i>Doctor Who </i>to continue the series instead of rebooting it, but pilot became the victim of the FOX network's poor scheduling that delivered unsurprisingly poor ratings, and Whovians' hopes (especially mine) were quickly dashed. The end of the '90s provided one bright light, however, when Big Finish Productions secured the rights to produce brand-new <i>Doctor Who </i>audio adventure stories starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy as their respective Doctors, along with some of their companions. For many fans, this was the best we could imagine during this otherwise dark time. Even better, McGann agreed to reprise the Eighth Doctor for Big Finish, officially continuing <i>Doctor Who </i>(albeit in audio form) with 2001's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Warning_(audio_drama)" target="_blank">Storm Warning</a>."<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">In 2003, we finally found light at the end of the tunnel. Just as <i>Doctor Who </i>fans tried to wrap our heads around Richard E. Grant voicing a new official "Ninth Doctor" for the first (and only) webcast <i>Doctor Who </i>series, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_(film)" target="_blank">Scream of the Shalka</a>," the BBC surprised everyone by announcing that <i>Doctor Who </i>would return in 2005 for a brand-new TV series with a brand-new Ninth Doctor, quickly relegating Richard E. Grant's webcast Ninth Doctor to obscure <i>Doctor Who </i>trivia night. Fandom resurged in anticipation, with US fans being forced to use this newfangled thing called "the Internet" to watch these new episodes due to having no American distributor for the new series.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">On March 26, 2005, <i>Doctor Who </i>returned to television with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_(Doctor_Who_episode)" target="_blank">Rose</a>," the first episode of Series One that introduced Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor as pop-singer Billie Piper as his new companion, Rose Tyler. New showrunner Russell T Davies used key elements from "Spearhead from Space" in his revival debut, (including bringing back the serial's villains, the Autons) but here was a redecorated <i>Doctor Who...</i>and fans <i>did </i>like it. Greater production values, improved special effects, solid acting, fun dialogue, and most importantly, <i>it was the same damn show</i>. Everything we loved about <i>Doctor Who </i>was featured in "Rose" and while the episode may not have been perfect, it was only the start of the revival that's lasted to this day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">As fans were over the moon with the return of our favorite show, a bombshell dropped just days later that Eccleston was already leaving the show after only one season for reportedly "fear of being typecast". What? WHAT?! <i>WHAT?!!! </i>Mercifully, David Tennant was soon announced as incoming Tenth Doctor, becoming an instant fan-favorite for Series Two through Four...and several assorted Specials because Tennant (himself a diehard Whovian) didn't want to go. Tennant's era during the rest of the 2000s turned <i>Doctor Who </i>into a global phenomenon, with Tennant himself becoming arguably even more popular as a Doctor than the sainted Tom Baker. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Also, for the first time, the family-friendly series <i>Doctor Who </i>was now popular enough to have TV spinoffs, with Modern Era companion Captain Jack Harkness getting his own series, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchwood" target="_blank">Torchwood</a> </i>(Yes, an anagram of "Doctor Who") for older viewers, and Elisabeth Sladen returning for more kids-friendly series, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sarah_Jane_Adventures" target="_blank">The Sarah Jane Adventures</a>. </i>With Davies having his hand in both series, it truly felt that <i>Doctor Who </i>had expanded its fictional universe, with Doctors and companions criss-crossing all three series to everyone's delight. Our little cult TV show whispered about in dark corners had grown up for all the world to enjoy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And even when RTD announced he was leaving along with Tennant after "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Time_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">The End of Time, Part Two</a>", we were reassured that <i>Doctor Who </i>would be in safe hands with popular writer Steven Moffat taking over as the new showrunner. At the age of 27, Matt Smith became the youngest-ever actor to take on the role, younger than Peter Davison was when he started and was considered by some foolish mortals to be "too young for the role." When Smith debuted in 2010's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Hour_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">The Eleventh Hour</a>" as the new Eleventh Doctor, the first episode in the new Steven Moffat era, he quickly put such fanboy snobbery to rest. Moffat quickly put his mark on the series, crafting some delightfully complex scripts that pushed the boundaries of what the series could do with time travel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">A perfect example of this? "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor" target="_blank">The Day of the Doctor</a>", <i>Doctor Who</i>'s 50th Anniversary Special in 2013, which not only brought Tennant back as the Tenth Doctor, but also introduced Sir John Hurt as the War Doctor, a "secret" Doctor never revealed before now that was developed as a replacement character for Christopher Eccleston, who declined to return as the Ninth Doctor for personal reasons. Anyone else getting Tom Baker vibes? The Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey, once thought destroyed as part of RTD's Time War idea to get rid of the Time Lords, was suddenly back in play again and a new Doctor was right around the corner. And there were more 50th Anniversary treats, including the long-awaited TV return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor in a mini-episode entitled "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Doctor" target="_blank">The Night of the Doctor</a>" and the docudrama <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Adventure_in_Space_and_Time" target="_blank">An Adventure in Space and Time</a>, </i>scripted by <i>Doctor Who </i>actor and writer Mark Gatiss and starring David Bradley as William Hartnell.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was around this time in 2014 that Southgate Media Group's Rob Southgate approached my longtime friend Jesse Jackson about doing a <i>Doctor Who </i>podcast and much to my surprise, Jesse asked me if I was interested in co-hosting it with him. I'd never hosted a podcast before, let alone listened to any, but the idea was far too tempting for me to resist. On August 3, 2014, we recorded the first episode of <i>Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast, </i>devoted to exploring all eras of <i>Doctor Who, Torchwood </i>and <i>The Sarah Jane Adventures </i>(I mean, <i>Everywhere </i>is right there in the title)<i>, </i>with me as the longtime Whovian and Jesse as the noob who got into New Who through <i>Torchwood. </i>Over nine years and three hundred episodes later, we're still recording as I continue Jesse's education of all things <i>Who </i>and we share our love of everything timey-wimey.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">After a couple of "prologue" episodes, our first review was "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Breath_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">Deep Breath</a>", Peter Capaldi's first story as the new Twelfth Doctor. A much older actor than Matt Smith, Capaldi (another longtime Whovian like Tennant) remained in the role for Series Eight, Nine and Ten, despite some declining ratings and Moffat getting some criticism for trying to be <i>too </i>clever with his often overly-complicated story ideas. Capaldi and Moffat both ended their <i>Doctor Who </i>runs with 2017's "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_Upon_a_Time_(Doctor_Who)" target="_blank">Twice Upon a Time</a>", another multi-Doctor story with the Twelfth Doctor meeting the First Doctor (now played by David Bradley) during events from Hartnell's final story, "The Tenth Planet." It was time for the show to change again, this time <i>Torchwood </i>showrunner Chris Chibnall taking the helm from Moffat.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">And change the show did. For the first time ever, a woman was selected for the lead role, with Jodie Whittaker becoming the Thirteenth Doctor. Right from the announcement trailer, a segment of <i>Doctor Who </i>fandom turned to hating the very same series they once professed to love, openly and trollishly campaigning for its cancellation simply because Chibnall dared to let someone with <i>two </i>X chromosomes play the Doctor. Ratings continued to suffer as some fans continued to pine for their Space Boyfriends, David Tennant and Matt Smith, and Chibnall often proved himself to be not as nearly as talented with scripts as Davies or Moffat. To his credit, Chibnall introduced some interesting story ideas, such as another "secret" previously unmentioned Doctor, this time another woman (and black no less, gasp!) called the Fugitive Doctor. In the process, he teased the divisive concept of the Timeless Child, a possible amount of unknown Doctors sometime before William Hartnell's First Doctor left Gallifrey with Susan all those years ago. Oh, and Gallifrey and the Time Lords? They're gone again, this time wiped out by Sacha Dhawan's incarnation of the Master.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Regardless, Jodie Whittaker got her three seasons as the Thirteenth Doctor, albeit the last two truncated due to complications resulting from the COVID pandemic. Whittaker and Chibnall made their exit with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Doctor" target="_blank">The Power of the Doctor</a>", arguably Chibnall's finest story during his and Whittaker's era, which brought back many Classic Era companions that Davies and Moffat somehow failed to do during their times as showrunner.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Speaking of Davies, a deal was made for him to return as showrunner for the show's 60th Anniversary with the announcement that Ncuti Gatwa would become the next Doctor and the show's first black actor in the lead role. (I know, <i>gasp!</i>) Of course, with Davies, nothing is that straightforward, so David Tennant has returned <i>again, </i>this time as a mysterious Fourteenth Doctor who recalls the teeth he had from his tenth incarnation. So here we are, three 60th Anniversary Specials with David Tennant, followed by Ncuti Gatwa at Christmas as the Fifteenth Doctor with Millie Gibson as his new companion Ruby Sunday.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What happens next? Who knows, eh? <i>Who. Knows.</i><br /><br /></span></p>Charles Skaggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04051108627625148683noreply@blogger.com0