I’m an equal-opportunity perv. I may point out females from time to time, from the super-attractive Morgan Smith Goodwin, the Wendy’s Girl and Tara Perry, to the super-talented like Lindsey Stirling and Lindsay Ellis. I’m thirty years old and I’m pretty secure in my sexuality, so I have no compunctions about judging the attractiveness of certain men. And since I’m always commenting on girls I think are hot, here are the top five guys I think are hot. DAVID TENNANT The first time I saw him was when he popped back up as the new incarnation of the Doctor. I’d just been getting used to Doctor Who, and was starting to…
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Doctor Who In Review
“Doctor Who”. It’s the one major part of geek culture I sorely lacked experience in. Before I was introduced by a friend, I really had no idea what Doctor Who was. It looked cheesy. It looked low-budget. It looked stupid. It looked like all those science fiction movies MST3K made fun of + special effects from a live-action children’s show. Neil Gaiman said he (like other British people) watched Doctor Who sitting hiding behind their couch, peeping out. I never understood why. Now I’ve now finished four seasons of the new “Doctor Who” series (on to Matt Smith!), and finally feel sufficiently versed to give an opinion. I wanted to…
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Doctor Who is Fantasy, not Science Fiction
Can we all agree that Doctor Who is about fantasy, not science? The things it’s about transcend the rules of the natural world. It’s not about scientific principles or technological premises. It pretty much fulfills the axiom “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Now look, I’m no Doctor Who expert. I’ve seen the first season of the reboot (Christopher Eccleston) and part of the second (David Tennant). I’ve never seen anything science fiction with a space/timeship that spends so little time in space and so little deviation from Earth’s 19th and 20th century. The Doctor is a wizard. He can die and come back to life. That sonic…
