Nice tip, LeoRex--I rarely (okay, never) think of YouTube, but I'll pop on over and look up the video you mentioned and give it a watch. More importantly, knowing its on the S4 set gives me more reason to order that sooner rather than later, and most important, Happy New Year!
Hey there, LeoRex! A very Merry Christmas to you, too. Personally, I put the demise of Dr. ? down to a combination of the head fof the BBC at the time (Lord somebody--I forget who exactly), and John Nathan Turner. Yeah, Colin got dissed more than he should, but there were some good eps there (I seem to recall one with a certain Davros & the Daleks that featured Alexei Sayle), but Melanie was not a good character. I liked Ace a whole lot better! Back when I was about 10 they started showing the Doc on KRMA in Denver which is where I started watching him. That was I think the 1st or 2nd season with Lalla Ward as Romana (Lalla's father, BTW, was Viscount Bangor; her half-bro is the Viscount now). When we moved to Calif. when I was 14 I was denied the doctor, so after Davison, I missed out until Colin Baker & Sylvester McCoy's episodes came out on VHS, which is when I caught up. I did not know that Tennant and Moffett were paramours now (gad dang lucky ...!). Did you know that when she played Mme de Pompadour opposite Tennant a couple years back, before Moonlight, Sophia Myles was his girlfriend? Again, gad dang lucky ...! Okay, how about this--Tennant's father, Rev. Alexander "Sandy" Macdonald was Moderator of the Church of Scotland (aka Presbyterian Church)? Yeah, you probably did. But I didn't see that Tennant-Davison part. Was it on DVD? I don't recall it on SciFi or BBC America. Speaking of those Dr. ? Xmas specials, there should be one airing now in the UK, (I just looked it up--it will air in just "a couple" hours in the UK with an apparent foreshadowing of the next doctor! I'll have to email a relative in London to see if he watched & get any impressions, but no details!). I did look up whose playing the second doctor, and its David Morrissey who co-stared, oddly (?) with Tennant in Viva Blackpool a couple years' back. Well, its getting late for me (must be very late for you!), so I'll chat atcha later--
BTW, and you may already know this, but the young woman who guest starred as Jenny in The Doctor's Daughter, Georgia Moffett, really is the Doctor's daughter. Her dad is Peter Davison (Moffett), the 5th Doctor, and her mother is American actress Sandra Searles Dickinson who played Trillian in the BBC TV production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And the silver-white haired guy playing the leader of one of the factions in the same episode is Nigel Terry who played King Arthur in Excalibur and played Prince John in The Lion in Winter opposite Tony Hopkins, Kat Hepburn, Timothy Dalton & Peter O'Toole. That was a great episode--I hope to see Jenny, aka Georgia, again next season!
Really great to see you back, LeoRex! I was getting worried that we'd lost you (Ryan is still MIA). For what its worth, there was a period in there that I was absent for more than a week, and even though I've been logging in, a lot of the time I've been here for maybe just a few minutes before I've had to run off to take care of something else elsewhere (actually, there were a couple times in there that I was called away so fast that I didn't actually log out because I was in the middle of a post or PM, but was gone so long that by the time I got back I found I had to log back in! Busy time of the year, huh?). My brother's pretty irked that Atlantis is canceled, too (he didn't take Stargate going well, either, but he really, really loved Atlantis). Most of the time my TV's tuned to CNN or MSNBC so I miss out on a lot of SciFi or just about anything else (I watch my nieces a lot, so I'm torn between PBS kids in the AM, and Hannah Montana in the PM--but we do often watch The Simpsons and sometimes, if its not too "scandalous," Family Guy). I hadn't heard that David Tennant was definitely leaving Dr. ?--I'd heard he was considering it, but assumed when I heard he'd signed on again that it was for the full season. I, too, hope BBC Wales & CBC do at least as a good a job choosing the next doctor as they did picking Eccleston to kick the series off again, and then picking Tennant as his successor--and yeah, last season wound up with the strongest finale I think I've ever seen in any drama, sci-fi or otherwise--BSG can hope to do so good. And like you I'm going to miss BSG. Those first couple seasons were just so intense, the 3rd season seemed a bit halting to me, but the fourth was off to a pretty decent start. I'm assuming that SciFi will do a marathon right before the premiere so folks with poor memories (i.e., me) can remember what happened 6 months ago! And for Trek, I am really looking foward to seeing that--and this time I hope to actually get to the theatre! The last movie I saw was either Return of the King, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or Revenge of the Sith--whichever was the last to come out. There are a lot of movies I wish I'd gone to see, but couldn't manage it (the nearest theatre is about 4 or 5 miles away, and I don't drive), but I do have a couple of those free passes, too, and would like to use them. And lastly, I suspect you'll be the one who starts the thread featuring Ms D's tryst with Ms Leslie (I hope you are the one who starts it anyway). Glad to have ya back! Cheers
Just a couple more weeks till BSG returns! I saw a couple previews the past couple days. Now if only I could remember what happened last, 6 months ago!
I'm assuming you've seen the new trailer for the new Star Trek, LeoRex. If not, its up at the official site. Looks interesting. My brother's dubious (he's become very cynical about sci-fi lately, thanks in large part to the long delays with Galactica), but Simon Pegg looked good in the little bit I saw of him as Scotty. Beyond that, though, it was all a big rush through the clip so I could hardly tell which end was up (alright, so that's nothing unusual for me, but still ...)
Pssst, BTW, Rob's already posted Monica's update. I've been downloading/viewing the video & photos (the standard WMV scenes come up like the older updates, so you can download without having your WMV player come up--so far, so wickedly good watching them on PowerDVD! And the still images, mwah! Magnifique!
