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And just like that I am reminded why I like this show.

If you do it right, it can be cracking great fun.

( I'll try to keep spoiler free, but no promises. )

If Asylum of the Daleks was just the outlier of trying to hard to be "big" and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship is going to be representative of the new "no story arcs" approach, this may be a fine season after all.

As many of you know, I have long supported Tilda Swinton as the next Doctor. Having recently seen a photoshop of Hugh Laurie (in full House mode) as The Doctor, I think I need some counter propoganda. Thanks to not-my-facebook-friend Angela, I was pointed to these pictures.

Anyone enough of a Photoshop wizard to get a TARDIS in there and Doctor these up?

Not me, in case you were worried.

It is, however, my friend, tattoo artist, model, muse, and interior decorator, the awesome Maery Contrary - a.k.a. Kessel Run.

I was particularly impressed by her deft handling of the "Star Wars or Lord of the Rings" gotcha question.

At around 10:30 Friday night, I decided to go to Philadelphia to see s00j in what I believed to be her last concert of 2011.

I bundled some things together and grabbed the red eye bus down south.

At 1:30 pm Saturday, I arrived at PhilCon, where I was greeted by shadesong.

At 2pm, I showed up at s00j's autograph table and pointed out I had nothing for her to sign. I do think the look of slight incredulity at my presence was kind of worth it. We determined that I see her in the fall, because that is when my s00j is in alignment. Now we have a story, which means now there are rules.

Her performance, accompanied by the superb Heather Dale, was tremendous.

I then spent the night party hopping to keep awake, smooched the cute geek girl who speaks 5 languages (as you do), and left the hotel at 6:30 am to head back to Montreal, crawling into my apartment at 8pm.

I violated horsetraveller's rule, but sometimes the point is that one did the journey.

Overall, however, PhilCon seemed pretty stale. I did enjoy shooting Jedi, however, and got to kidnap Doctors and make them pose next to the TARDIS corset, so there was definitely fun to be had.

Since the anarchist Tintin and the gender-swapped Asterix came up at work this morning, does anyone know if there is any gender-swapped Tintin anywhere? It strikes me as one that would be interesting to see.

(I'd also love to see a good gender-swapped Corto Maltese picture, because I think it would be an awesome look.)

It would be nice if you looked where you were going in the metro and didn't kick over the bag that had my made-from-scratch tomato sauce in it, assholes.

Craig and the Doctor meet up again to remind us that we can't run from who we are.

( This is where I talk about the episode and give praise to Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All. )

So frothy and sort of fun, but really feels like filler before the final ep, and surprisingly not giving us a two-part finale.

( And here's where I talk about what I think is going on with Moffat's clever little puzzle box. )

I have been most lax about reviewing the second have of Series 6 of Doctor Who (not to be confused with Season 6 of Doctor Who). Some of it has been workload, some has been lack of inspiration, but nonetheless, one must do what one must do.

( Are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin. )

After briefly playing with the generator at work, I figured I wasn't easily MLP'd. Melebeth proved me wrong.




(I have no idea why I am apparently unable to just use img src anymore.)

The Prologue teaser makes me think our worst fears might be realized.

On a side note, I am very happy to see these prologue teasers as a nod to the old show. While NuWho still does tend to have something happen setting up the story before the credits, the rushed nature of the show tends to make them a little less off the beaten track. It's nice that for some episodes they film these little scenes an leave them on the web.

Not really sure what to say about this one. It seemed very rushed, despite being a 2 parter, and I am not sure whether what appeared to be some strange moments are actually just screw ups or whether they are things to be settled in part 2.