The Time Siren Diaries

The Place – Facebook
The Phenomena – 180 comments in 2 hours on a single post…this is what I love about the internet.
Here are some of the best of those comments…

” You Know your addicted to Doctor Who when …………….”

…You’ve made up your own Time Lord. Complete with name, outfit, personal history, etc.
…you’re looking forward to Christmas not because of the gifts but because of the Doctor Who Special XD
…you go without any episodes for a long time, and you start to get hives.
…You never blink. (a personal favorite)
…You want the internet soley cause you want to download Doctor Who stuff. The rest of the net? Who cares?
…You mistake bulky headphones for Cyberman headgear.
…When you wish it was christmas for the start of a new season.
…you swear that noise you just heard was the Tardis landing in your back yard.
…you name your only child after a character on the show!
…When u get drunk and Introduce yourself by saying, “Hello I’m the Doctor”.”
…he’s your profile picture
…When your profile picture is you dressed as the Doctor
…You start a conversation with: “One time on Doctor Who….”
…You look forward to having a cough so that your wheezing sounds like a TARDIS landing.
…You eat fishsticks and custard.
…You wait patiently for someone to post the current episode on You-Tube in ten minute segments because you live in KY.
…You have the Seal of Rassilon tattoo’d on your shoulder.. just saying…
…You have your own scarf, personally signed by Tom Baker. (how do you sign a scarf?)
…you dress salt shakers up like daleks.
…When removing files from your computer, you say “Delete! Delete! Delete!”
…When every time your friend tries to set you up on a date, your first question is, “Does he like Doctor Who?”
…your waiting for the 2012 Olympics to see if David Tennant appears.
… When all you want for Christmas is a screwdriver.
…when your laptop is stolen and the first thing you think about is all the Doctor Who episodes and images you’ve lost!
…When you build a replica tardis in your backyard complete with a phone that doesn’t work in case a kids with a gas mask comes by…
…When you are attempting to knit a 12 foot long scarf.
…When you know how terrible the Wii game is, but you want to buy it anyway
…when you leave a music festival early so you won’t miss an episode.
…you like to use the “it’s bigger on the inside” phrase a little too much.
…when Christmas becomes “Whomas”.
…when your basement is full of Dr. Who action figures.
…When all the items on your Christmas list to your husband are Dr. Who themed, not diamonds it’s true…
…When drunk, you use the sonic screwdriver app on ur phone & point it @ random objects (ie. ATM, drinks, park benches & bouncers)
…You judge British actors based solely on how well you think they could play the Doctor.
…when you cried or almost cried when David Tennant regenerated
…When you pop in a Doctor Who DVD and the theme song starts to play your husband yells down the stars “Hon, is that my phone or yours?
…you buy a fez and a bow tie!
…When you think to yourself, “Hmmmm… If I get a physics degree, I might be able to actually pull off building a sonic screwdriver!”
…When you’re watching the latest Harry Potter movie and you see that the “bad guys” can’t see the good guys and you think, “Well, duh, there’s a perception filter.”
…When you start writing Doctor Who fanfic!” (no one around here does that…uh, no one…)
…when you wake up making a decision to build a small scale model of stonehenge for your action figures…..
…When you try to make your own sonic screwdriver.
…when you try to open your front door with a sonic srewdriver toy on the off chance it will work for real!
…When you see somebody wearing a Bluetooth ear peace and scream “Cyberman” at them.
…when you want your own blue box that’s bigger on the inside.
…When you stalk 10th Doctor cosplayers.

Wednesday was a busy day for Doctor Who news. I awoke to this amusing article on Facebook & LIve Journal – “NASA discovers Doctor Who’s crack in the middle of the Milky Way” and several new trailers for this Saturday’s episode, “The Pandorica Opens”. For those of you who don’t want spoilers, the YouTube videos will be hosted in a separate blog post here.

http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwho/6111380.html

Don’t read this or click on this link if knowing about the episode before you see it if that kind of thing will freak you out.

Tonight I read the probable reason I have latched onto this episode as my neck-and-neck favorite with the premiere, “The Eleventh Hour”, and it has convinced me now to propel “Amy’s Choice” into the Number One spot on my favorites list. A review by a Live Journal contributor is a deep introspection into the story and roles of the Doctor, Amy and the Dream Lord in this episode that allow us as merely viewers to fully and truly find an emotional connection with its message that will evolve one’s appreciate for Doctor Who. It is not just someone looking for meaning that is not there. Steven Moffat doesn’t do things without a damn good reason – EVERYTHING in his Universe/Whoniverse has depth and meaning and layers that go deep under the surface, providing a rich and intelligent vehicle for our entertainment.

As just a taste of the indepth analysis into an episode that made me laugh, ponder and sob, here are a few tidbits:

The Doctor (Matt Smith) is helpless against the hypnotic power of sleep wielded by the Dream Lord.

“…this episode truly cements my thesis that 11th Doctor is a teacher/old wise man figure in the magical world of Time…he takes the role of the humbug Wizard, warping reality, torturing us seemingly pointlessly, leading us on a wild goose chase, all while hiding behind the curtain.”

The freezing cold in the TARDIS means more than physical danger for the Doctor (Matt Smith) and companions.

“…the freezing cold, (is) a beautiful symbol of the Doctor’s emotional coldness that threatens Amy. The Doctor can provide her with adventure and growth (as shown in the episode itself), but he cannot provide her with the love that Rory can.”

Last year I studied archetypes with Sensei Ron Thomas and because of those lessons, I completely get this. They are the lessons of life as it is experienced all over the planet, from simply being human, no matter what culture you are from, what continent or what race. Sad though it is that we need to see ourselves through the eyes of an alien Time Lord to fully recognize and appreciate this, it speaks to the richness of the world of Doctor Who and how it makes important cultural and psychological contributions to our growth as human beings.

This photo showed up on LiveJournal this morning and was apparently plastered all over Twitter and Facebook after Neil Gaiman uploaded it to his Twitpic account. Fans are squeeing with delight at the announcement on the Doctor Who News Page that, “Gaiman has now completed his script for the 2011 series of Doctor Who, although the title is still secret.”

It bore the amusing caption of, “Who are these three middle aged men? Dear God, what are they plotting? Can no one save us? ”

Who wants to be saved, this gal wants to know?

As a side note of interest, Curtis is the author of “Vincent and the Doctor”, Episode Ten of the new series.

A painful choice for Amy Pond awaits her in "Amy's Choice"

A great review of the episode, “Amy’s Choice”. Very indepth:

http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2010/05/051610doctor_who_blogging_amys_choic.html

We are so having this at our Doctor Who party on the 17th…

Instructions on how to make this here. Thank you, Kamikaze Cookery, for your wonderful & weird contribution to the world of human food and to the heritage of the Time Lords.

As we near the release date for Doctor Who in the U.K., podcasts, articles, interviews, images and clips have are giving us a steady stream of news about our favorite Time Lord. Will he wear a face this time around that will become our favorite? Will it be the face for the next new generation of Who Fans? Everyone has a different answer, but the one thing we all have in common is that the news is piquing all our curiosities.

Because the news is so scattered across the internet, I thought I’d compile it all here in one spot for my readers, and thank you, those of youu who have joined my Feedburner and RSS feeds from the links to my 5th Doctor fan fiction on Whofic and FanFiction.net. More will be coming your way as well in stories, avatars and wallpapers, I promise.

Recent Who News as of Tuesday, March 23, 2010:

On Blogtor Who -

Steven Moffat – BBC Breakfast Interview is also here “STEVEN MOFFAT was a guest on today’s edition of BBC Breakfast…In it he confirms that an old monster will return, the Weeping Angels are “way worse this time” and that Matt is an “elegant shambles”.” I love the term, “elegant shambles”! SPOILER ALERT in the links on this page. If you don’t want to know anything further about specific episodes, DON’T click on any video clips without reading the accompanying descriptions, OR on the “2010: THE NEW SERIES” episode links on the right-hand side of the page. There are no plot spoilers in the 2010 links, BUT there are episode images and SCRIPT EXCERPTS…I am so loving this ‘site…

Blogtor Who also contains press launch interviews with Matt, Karen & David, 1st episode clip snippets, pics of the spread in the Radio Times, more snippets from Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, links to tons more video, pics and to their friends at Den of Geek for a spoiler-free review.

Doctor Who in the Media – Article Round Up

The Master. Destroying stupid people that won't get in the groove...one planet at a time!

Haven’t you ever felt like breaking out and destroying the world ’cause it just won’t get with the program?!?

http://mashable.com/2008/09/19/top-wordpress-themes/

Beautiful and definitely NOT ordinary. Makes me want to sit down and do a Doctor Who WordPress theme, then maybe some Anime ones…that would be so cool!

~ article source – Mashable.com