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Dr Who?
If you missed Children In Need last night (perhaps because you were out having a life), then you missed the most fantastic eight minutes of TV this year – Dr Who: Time Crash.
In a charidee special, David Tennant crashed his Tardis into the fifth doctor Peter Davidson’s Tardis, resulting in fantastic dialog that made me laugh, shriek and get a bit teary in the space of a few minutes.
2 comments 17 November, 2007
hypertime and the physics of comics
If you weren’t at interesting2007, one of the most (surprisingly for me, given the topic) interesting talks was Jack Schulze’s entertaining presentation on hypertime and the general physics of comics. You can check out the slides and transcript here.
Hypertime is explained as “a manifestation in the story of the comic which allows the writers to refer to any of the instances in all of history of any character inside the comic itself” – otherwise known as a really good get-out clause that allows the coolest versions of much-loved comic characters from different time periods to interact with each other (and paper over any continuity glitches).
My favourite quote from Jack’s talk:
“you don’t get John Pertwee turning up in contemporary Doctor Who, though that’d be quite good if he did”
UPDATE: Feb 2009 – browsing though the archives I realised that the Dr Who ‘Time Crash’ episode from November 2007 (where David Tennant crashes his Tardis into the fifth doctor Peter Davidson’s Tardis) looks like a brilliant example of hypertime in action. Maybe one of the Dr Who scriptwriters saw Jack’s talk?
1 comment 10 July, 2007
Should time travellers fixate on the present day?
I’ve been watching the new series of Dr Who. Its been fabulous as usual. The thing that struck me however was the number of tongue in cheek references to marketing and media that I don’t remember the previous series being that big on.
The first episode had new assistant Martha questioning whether the biker helmeted aliens were from the Planet Zovirax, while last weekend saw the Doctor urge Shakespeare to rid the world of witches with the help of an ‘Expelliarmus’ from Harry Potter.
I quite like it, but I can’t help wondering – is this series going to look terribly dated in five years as a result?
1 comment 10 April, 2007
