Jousting Peeps- Doctor Who part 4

So there's the guy and he's a writer.  He wrote two episodes in Series 1 of Doctor Who and they were without a doubt the best episodes, The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.  Both episodes freaked you out, nothing scarier then a kid with no face asking "are you my mummy?" and cracked you up: take this little bit of dialogue from the episode The Doctor Dances.

Captain Jack Harkness: [stands after ceiling is repaired] Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The Doctor: I do!
Rose Tyler: [ignores them] Lights.
[starts to move around the room, looking for a switch]
Captain Jack Harkness: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic"?
The Doctor: What, you've never been bored?
Rose Tyler: [still searching the room] There's got to be a light switch.
The Doctor: Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?


Series 2 had the Girl in the Fireplace... brain explodingly awesome.   The only redemable episode in Series 3 was Blink, which stands alone as the single greatest epsiode of all time.  Series 4 had Slience in the Library.   And Series 5 Steven Moffit took over as the lead writer and producer of the show.

What Steven Moffit shines at, is not only perfect story telling but scary ass monsters.

Take The Weeping Angels...  If you blink-- your dead. 

Yep just about every person who watch that episode lost a little bit of bladder control.

And how about the newest edition to the gallery of rogues?   The Silence, as soon as you look away from them, you forget all about them.  An enemy you can't fight because you can't remember them.

Yep, you just peed yourself didn't you?

I don't blame you one bit.

So who's the baddest of the bad?   TO THE PEEPS!!!!!

It's a TIE!!!! Yep... these jerks are equally scary....  good luck sleeping tonight.

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Jousting Peeps- Doctor Who part 3

 A hero isn't interesting unless he or she has truly scary villian.

In his 900 years, the Doctor has collected a wide assortment of baddies.  The two who have been recurring and down right scary as all get out are The Daleks and the Cybermen.

The Daleks hate everything, they want to exterminate all non dalek life.  Yes they look like trashcans with a toilet plunger on their heads, but they scare the crap out of me.  The first time I saw one, I was like this thing is totally lame.  Now ANY TIME I see on one scene I freak the frak out.

The Cyberman are equally awful, mostly because they think they're doing the right thing.  They want to "Upgrade" everyone and make the as perfect as a Cyberman.  They're pushy but devoid of any feelings.   They're like that nosy neighbor who comes over all the time and thrusts awful food at you.  Even though you've told her your allegelic to peanuts and sleather a layer of peanut butter on everything and stands there until you've eaten it.  But refuses to give you a shot of your epipen. 

I listened to by hubby and that's why the Dalek is spelled wrong.

 BATTLE ARENA!

The winner and wow is it an upset.....  CYBERMEN!!!  

Yep, I have to say this is the first time I've totally disagreed with the peeps.  Because as the Daleks said in series 2, "Cyberman are superior in only one way, dying."

Jousting Peeps- Doctor Who part 2

The single greatest TV Show of all time is Doctor Who, with The Simpsons as a close second.  Not only because if it's amazing writing but for it's cultural impact as well.   And what makes it so special 11 different actors have played The Doctor.  Everyone has his or her favorite.  Mine are David Tennant  or Matt Smith.

 Doctor Ten - David Tennant, I loved,  he had that sexy nerdy thing going and he could break my heart and make me laugh in the same second.
Doctor Eleven -Matt Smith, I loved in the first ten minutes of the new season, "that's must be some scary crack in your wall" I was hooked.

Time to battle out the Doctors....

Into the battle arena:

It's a heated battle--- no really it was, they started to burn and smoke.

THE WINNER--- David Tennant!!

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Jousting Peeps- The Doctor Who edition-- part 1

Today's mission is very special to me.  Because it's about one of my all time favorite things.  Doctor Who.

Namely the companions and which one is the best.

So Rose was off list because she was the doctor's most beloved companion and had two different Doctors.

Martha was off the list because she sucks.  Only two episodes of her entire season were worth watching, Gridlock and Blink.

That leaves us with Donna Noble and Amy Pond.

Donna is sassy, awesome and had a PERFECT season on the show.  Amazing. 

Amy Pond is Sassy, strong, and also had a perfect season.
















Our peeps must fight!

To the battle arena

Close battle--- SUPER CLOSE BATTLE... as it should be.

But the winner is Donna Noble.

Next week

Doctor 10 Verses Doctor 11.

Penny and Hank 22 days left

A quick update on Penny and Hank, this weekend I wrote wrote wrote. I hung out with my family and wrote some more.

First off I got organized-- outlined the scenes I had left to write. I had 25 scenes/ chapters to write. Basically 25 things I wanted to have happen before I ended the draft.

I like lists, they keep me organized and make me feel productive.

Over the weekend I crossed off 5 of those scene.

Last time I updated the blog I was on page 89 and had 22K words.

As of 9:38 on June 1 I have 127 33K words.

My goal is to hit 60K and 250 pages. I don't think it's going to 60k, I think I'll end up getting to 50- 55k. Which is fine because I don't want to drag the story out and have twenty pages of the characters watching Doctor Who, because while I would find it entertaining to summarize all the episodes, I'm not sure if other people would. And I don't want to get sued by a British lawyer--- they're so fancy after all.

Night all, tomorrow is a mid week links--- all about Queries.

Doctor Who, how I love thee.

New season of Doctor Who started up this weekend (BBC America- its been on for a week in England).

My Predictions for 2010 says "I will hate the new Doctor for three episodes then warm up to him."

Prediction--- WRONG--- I LOVED HIM 10 Minutes into the show.

The writing was prefect, the characters were realistic and funny, the show had the same level of creepiness.

Without giving too much away, in case you haven't seen it and you should because it's amazing, This was a much better opening than seasons 1, 2, and 3. Season 4 was perfect-- cute little blobby things and the reunion of the Doctor and Donna Noble.

Every GREAT episode of Doctor Who was written by Moffit and now that the show is under his control, I have very high expectations.

The WORST episode of Doctor Who is still better than about 98% of American Television. Do your brain a favor and go watch Doctor Who. Your brain will thank me.

Ugh brainfart!

I had SO many funny things to say on the blog tonight but now I can't think of them.

So I guess I'll talk about time travel.


If I did have a time machine I would do the following things.

1) Go see The Beatles

2) Have Courtney Love not meet her husband, or at least make sure there wasn't a shot gun in the house. Bad parenting dude and your death gave birth to the Spice Girls. For shame.

3) Get Hitler into Art School.

4) Watch a taping of Doctor Who with David Tennent. I heart him

5) See what humanity evolves into.

6) Watch the creation of the solar system- hey it's my time machine, if I want to watch dust and gas for a while I will. Who are you to judge?

7) Stop assissination of various important leaders, the good ones, not the mean crappy ones. (you know what, I should move that one to number 2--- it's a little bit better for humanity as a whole)

8) Visit myself in high school and tell my high school self not to be such a bitter bitch, life gets better.

9) Take a nap. Like a really good power nap. Again it's my time machine stop judging me.

10) Write Twilight, because come on who wouldn't want some Twilight money.

11) peek into Zoey's future and then feel REALLY guilty about it.

Night all, have a good one.