Beyond My Geeky Life

There is one area of Star Wars Episode 7 that is clearly headed in the right direction. They have built a full sized Millennium Falcon. http://geektyrant.com/news/full-scale-millennium-falcon-completed-for-star-wars-episode-vii It is clear that falcon is needed.  It is a truly iconic ship. Lucas screwed up in the prequels by not creating a new ship that stood out.  Now it would be next to impossible to create a ship as cool as the Millennium Falcon, which as just too perfect and filled with personalty.  But ti felt as if Lucas didn't even try. The Millennium Falcon itself is a strong character, stronger than many characters in the prequels.    The fact that the ship is a character and the usefulness of ships as characters is something I hope is something that Adrams understands. It is a good sign that this was a priority for Abrams.

On Monday evening the family was part of the huge crowd of Whovians who got out to the theaters and saw The Day of the Doctor in 3-D on the big screen.  I have to say it was an awesome experience. The program itself was truly something special for Doctor Who fans. The story, the cast, all the little extras throughout and so much more came together for a great television experience. To see it in 3-D in a theater with a crowd took it to a new level. We got treated to a couple special extras before hand. The pre-show was trivia from Doctor Who over the years, which I actually knew all of. There was the standard theater announcement about cell phone, noise and recording devices given to us by Strax in his unique style.  It was very memorable and should be used as a regular opening for movies. Then we had Matt Smith and David Tennant get us started off with our 3-D experience which included a warning about 'The chin' and a test using your 3-D glasses to see if someone next...

So if you have seen 'The Day of the Doctor', which is something no one should miss, then you know just how awesome it was to see so many connections to the past Doctors. With that final out of story scene with all 12 Doctors standing together even if only three of them actually were the real thing... I talked about this a few posts back, but Peter Davidson, the fifth Doctor, put together a special little film titled 'The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot'. It is well worth watching and fits in with the 50th anniversary celebration. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01m3kfy While the story focuses on Peter Davidson, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, there were just so many cameos of people connected with Doctor Who.  In some ways it was a perfect way to wrap up the 50th anniversary. We get to see John Barrowman hanging with the classic era Doctors and a shocking revelation about him that may change the way you view the man. Davidson's daughter (Tennant's wife), Ge...

I am not going to spoil it for those few poor souls who have not had the opportunity to enjoy 'The Day of The Doctor'. It is full of a lot of surprises. It starts off by telling the story from three different points of views, which I thought was great.  Then the three storylines merge and it just gets better from there. A lot of play on various plot lines from past episodes.  We get so many classic references, making it clear that all that has come before is still relevant. We get Moffet's timey-wimey  play on a story big time here, but it works better than ever this time around. We also get a great, simple explanation as to why the Doctor does not remember the meetings with his other selves and why the actions of the episode would not rewrite the Doctor's timeline.  It was a highly needed throw away line that was well past time to add. I'll wait a day or so before I write a more solid review of the special.  Might wait until after I get to see it in...

The day is finally here and we are down to the last few hours of waiting. This is about as big of a Sci-Fi event as ti gets.  The special will be simultaneously broadcast around the world to what I remember being over 60 countries originally, but I saw an article that said over 80 now. Google is all about Dr. Who.  Go to their site and check it out. I've yet to play the interactive game, but the graphics are fun. My boys are wide awake and getting in costume, even though it is just going to be us watching the special here at home. Doctor Who is bigger than ever all around the world.  It is a good time to be a Whovian.

Yes, I am about to write a post that is not at all about Doctor Who. Just finished watching the end of Book 2 of The Legend of Korra.  Great series.  They did a remarkable job of with the last few episodes of showing connections and even some parallels to events that Aang was involved in his adventures.  It made for a conclusion that changed that world in many ways. I have enjoyed seeing the progress of the world between the two series and then to have these new changes that really switch things up even more. It is a powerful thing to have a world that can evolve with the story. There are still two more 'books' to go with Korra.  I am looking forwards to seeing where they take this world. It has just been a highly enjoyable ride so for. With tomorrow being the big 50th special and right now The Adventure in Space and Time on BBCAmerica, there will be more posts on Doctor Who coming.

One thought that helped me feel good with work today was that we are down to the last day before the big wait is over. There is a lot to live up to for this one special. Tons of stuff out there right now. Here is Peter Jackson talking about his favorite episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wb3yzCJ9Xg There are a greta deal of such clips out there now of various celebrities wishing Doctor Who happy birthday. Let's hope 'The Day of the Doctor' lives up to the hype.