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The New Doctor Who is Fantastic! 20090627 by: Translator Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 20:17:18 PDT (9:00AM EST - promoted by Nightprowlkitty) BBC America just ran the new installment of Doctor Who.  It has surpassed my expectations, let alone hopes.  David Tennent is so well suited to the role of The Doctor (and to think that I did not like him very much at first, since Eccleston was so good) that one actually believes that he believes that he is The Doctor. For those of you not hip to this series, I can not even begin to begin to explain.  It started as a children's television program on BBC in 1963, starring William Hartnell as a very aged Doctor, traveling with his first companion.  She was, in the story, his granddaughter, and this has never been resolved in the years of the series. There's More... :: (3 Comments, 401 words in story)

Out of Time by: Magnifico Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 00:15:00 PDT The complete cartoon can be read at salon.com. In itself, referencing the BBC television show Doctor Who in a political cartoon isn't unusual. For example, it isn't uncommon in Britain for editorial cartoonists to depict politicians, such as Tony Blair, as Daleks. But when the show makes an appearance in an American publication, it is something unusual and oddly out-of-place. In this week's This Modern World, cartoonist Tom Tomorrow has the Doctor and his TARDIS make a cameo appearance. As you can see, The Doctor travels back to 2003 to bring news to Sparky the Wonder Penguin about Barack Obama being the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Tom chose not just any Doctor, but the 10th Doctor currently being portrayed by David Tennant. Usually when Doctor Who is referenced in America, Tom Baker's Doctor is depicted. Doctor Who comics have a history of penguins. In the 1980s, the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine had Frobisher, a shape-changing extraterrestrial whose preferred form was that of a penguin. I wonder if he knows something of Doctor Who's comic strip past? Or was this just an odd, happy coincidence?   Discuss :: (1 Comments)