an exercise in percussive maintenance
Category: Movies, Music & Television
Guinan, the bartender aboard the Federation Starship Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, is hundreds of years old. In the episode, Yesterday’s Enterprise, she is able to sense it when the timeline changes. She met Picard five centuries before Picard meets her. And the Enterprise has holodecks which are bigger on the inside. Discuss.
Finally, after eight excruciating months of waiting, the time has finally come. In a few minutes the world will meet the twelfth (thirteenth? (fourteenth??)) Doctor, this time played by Peter Capaldi.
It’s amazing how the Doctor managed to infiltrate our lives since the show was revived almost a decade ago. He is fast becoming an almost mythical character. Possibly it’s the novelty of a character that constantly changes his face while remaining the same person, the paragon of re-invention. Perhaps it’s the way Doctor Who exploits that most remarkable ability of Science Fiction to use the fantastical to show us our everyday selves in a new light. Maybe it’s just that it’s so incredibly fun, taking geekdom mainstream like Star Trek and Middle Earth has never been able to do.
One of the things I like about George Orwell’s Animal Farm is…what’s that? I promised not to write about it anymore? I did, didn’t I? But I have to, for this morning the interwebs informed me that yesterday would have been Mr Orwell’s eleventy-first birthday. (The reason the interwebs only informed me of it this morning is because the pages I follow which inform me of titbits like this are mostly based in the US and as such are at their most active when I’m snug in bed, thus the belated tribute to ol’ Eric (what Orwell’s mother called him).)
His two best-known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (the latter published only months before his death), both describe totalitarian societies where power is vested in a small minority who uses a combination of intimidation and propaganda to keep the masses in check.
A couple of weeks ago, bumblepuppies (expanding my musical horizons one song title at a time) complained that I was writing too much about Doctor Who. Apparently he thinks Dr Seuss is much cooler. Now, I enjoy The Cat in the Hat as much as the next guy and Dr Seuss rhymes like nobody’s business, but he doesn’t have a TARDIS. Pwned! (Did I use that right?)
So, just like the bumbling puppy regularly uses my comments on his song suggestions as an excuse to send me ever more zany song titles, I’m using his comment as inspiration for today’s post. And I found the most awesomest video ever and I simply have to share it with everyone. Here goes:
Awesome, isn’t it?
Also, if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the first official trailer of Season 8 that’s coming in a few months. It’s incredibly short, but it had the wife squealing with delight. We may need to get out more…
So, I didn’t like Frozen, but this version I might just be able to get into.
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