Where I mainly showcase my contributions to my fandoms.
Which includes (but is not limited to)...
Doctor Who, Sherlock (BBC and Classic), Firefly, and Star Trek.
New posts every Friday or Saturday.
Sorry I missed last week. But I'm back now! Sadly I also haven't had much time to work on my Dr. Horrible costume, but my mom just got a new sewing machine so as soon as I learn how to use it making the lab coat will be a snap.
Any way, this week is just going to be a quick little blurb. First of all I found a few new pictures and some videos taken on the set of Doctor Who!
This is going to be one of the new creatures the Doctor and Clara face. I wish I knew more about classic Who. I'm not sure if this is based on one of the older monsters. I've been tracking down as many of the old episodes as I can, but let me tell you it is tough!
I found these videos on YouTube but it couldn't find the link when I tried posting them on here, so I uploaded them from my computer, so if for some reason you would like to watch it on YouTube instead of my blog I will post the link to the actual video below it.
because they added in subtitles of what they're saying)
Side note: If you know where I can get complete seasons on dvd of any of the classic Doctors please let me know in the comments!
And for you video game enthusiasts guess what movie is scheduled to come out next year?
If you guessed Halo...
Sorry, but no.
Actually it's Ratchet and Clank!
This was one of my favorite video games as a kid. And just recently I found this:
It does seem a little dreamworks / pixar-like but then again it's not like the games were geared toward adults, it was all little kid-ish humor. I don't mind but I was hoping for something a little more action adventure-ish. I haven't heard much more about it, but if you're interested they do have a website (and facebook page?) that you can get updates from.
Just a day or so ago I got a hold of a copy of guess what?
This is one of the only low budget musicals that I actually like.
If you haven't seen it yet I have to warn you it is slightly cheesy, but it was actually supposed to be like that. What other movie has a evil genius going up against a super-jerk and they break out into song every two minutes? ... and it's written by Joss Whedon so it's gotta be good!
Slight spoiler: I watched it for the third time in a row yesterday and was crying like a baby, again. So by the end of the movie you're doing this:
Don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm not just here to talk about the movie. I'm working on a project.
My family cringes and there is a collective murmuring of: "Oh no. What now?" when I say those five words.
I got the movie so I could use it as a reference for my Dr. Horible... um, that's spelled with two Rs. H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E. (That was an actual spelling error and I was going to correct it but how could I resist. *wink, wink*) ...costume! That's right! I love cosplay and who better to impersonate than Dr. Horrible?
I've put together quite a few costumes from my other fandoms (mostly lot's of Doctor Who characters), so why not Dr. Horrible?
I just purchased some of the materials today, so I don't have any pictures yet. But I'm hoping by next week I will have a few of the things complete and I will post instructions ASAP. The goggles will probably only take a few hours... basically I just need to paint them. The freeze ray looks easy enough if I can just find all the supplies... but the stun death ray, and the coat are going to take some time coming.
Right now I'm going to be focusing on the white coat that he wears for the majority of the time but I'll save the pattern and eventually make the red coat of horribleness.
Just recently I became acquainted with the tv show Almost Human.
It's set in the near future, 2048, but we've had a lot of technological advancements. Due to all these new technologies crime has gotten way out of hand and the only way the police can even begin to cope with it is by pairing each human cop with an android partner to double their man-power. After a near death experience, partly due to an android, police detective John Kennex is partnered with an older model android, which had been decommissioned due to emotional problems. The thing is this particular model of robots had been copied so closely to replicate human emotions that sometimes they had unexpected emotional outbursts... just like us. So they get teamed up and John eventually starts to get over his dislike for at least this particular android. Together they go around solving crimes that you could only get away with doing in the future, getting into lots of shoot outs with bad guys, and a few car chases.
In all it's a really great show: lots of action, and a plot!
The only problem is a lot of critical questions go unanswered in the first season, and because of low viewings there may not be a second season. I don't even care so much if the mysteries from season one never get answered (I can write fan fiction and make it up), but I really think fox should give this show a second chance. Maybe if they played the show in order it would have got some better reviews (apparently they got them a little out of order when they aired, but I just watched them on iTunes so I wouldn't know), also the season finale, unlike most other shows was just another episode, it didn't really give any answers like I was expecting it to.
I just realized I made it sound like it sucks...
But it doesn't! I would highly recommend it.
Any way the main reason I'm writing this is to spread the word and let people know to start watching it. If this suddenly becomes a huge fandom overnight I think they might get the hint and give us another season. I'd rather watch this any day over sparkly vampires or twenty-zillion (non)reality tv shows.
The truth is great shows like this especially made in America (sorry U.S.) with good plot are kind of hard to come by. Well, there are a few...
... but it seems like they have a very limited lifespan. And I don't want to see the same thing happen to this like it did to Firefly. At least Almost Human just came out, there's still a chance they could renew it. And right now actually they're only talking about not bringing it back, but there hasn't been a lot of chatter about the second season either, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
So people, spread the word! Keep Almost Human going!
You can either share this or just say it in your own words but please start letting people know about this on whatever social media you're in to while we've still got a chance. Please! Other Firefly fans I'm asking you specifically to help out because you know the pain of only getting one season when there is potential for so much more!
Please check it out! You can either buy the episodes on iTunes or watch it on fox's page @
While most of the fandoms that I've talked about so far are movies or tv shows I realised I haven't talked much about my favorite books. I could read all day... and night, and into the next day... and, you get the picture, but it seems harder and harder to find a good series of books to read, so I'd like to list some of my favorites, with a brief description of what they're about so you can pick the best sounding ones to read if you haven't read them all ready.
Sherlock Holmes (the original books and short stories)
by Sir Aurther Conan Doyle
I really don't think I need to give an explanation for this, except that if you haven't read them yet, you should give them a try.
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
Quite different from the movies. In case you haven't seen the movies it's about several children that find a door to another land filled with fantastical creatures, where they battle evil.
Also if you don't have time to read these I highly suggest the dramatized reading of the books produced by radio theatre (very high quality). http://www.focusonthefamily.com/radio-theatre.aspx
The Edge Chronicles
by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
A fantasy world revolving mainly around the character Twig. The series takes place in a land known as the Edge: a large cliff where several cities are built that juts out over a bottomless abyss and later the regions behind the edge. Filled with strange new creatures, flying ships, and knights that chase after storms to collect a precious substance known as storm frax from lightning in the ever treacherous twilight woods.
I have to admit the first book doesn't seem to go anywhere very fast but the second, and every book after that really picks up the pace.
The Missing
by Margret Peterson Haddix
Jonah thinks he's just a normal kid, well a normal adopted kid. Until he finds out that he was one of 36 children that were kidnapped out of time. Their kidnappers crash-landed in the 21st century were the children were found and given up for adoption to regular families, having no idea their children were stolen from a different time period and that all of time and space is now in jeopardy without them in their proper place.
The Shadow Children
also by Margret Peterson Haddix
In the future population laws only allow couples to have two children. Luke is the third child in his family and has to stay hidden from everyone else otherwise the population police will take him away. When he is nearly discovered Luke is forced to run away from home to keep both him and his family safe.
100 Cupboards
by N.D. Wilson
Similar to the Chronicles of Narnia (especially to the first book The Magicians Nephew) but a little darker.
The story revolves around Henry York, who, after moving in with his Aunt and Uncle discovers 100 cupboard doors hidden behind a wall of his room. Each one leads into a different world. Henry must save these worlds after accidentally releasing a terrible evil on them.
Alex Rider
by Anthony Horowitz
A 14 year old, British school boy is thrust into a world of espionage, spies, and assassins after his uncle is killed by a Russian contract killer.
I'm sure this isn't all of my favorites. I read quite a lot but most of these are just some of my more recent reads, so they were on the top of my mind. I'll make another post later when I think of the rest.
Have any good books to suggest? Tell me about them in the comments. If I like them I'll add it to the second part of my post.
Hopefully by now you've all seen series 3 of Sherlock, if not wait and read this later because I will mention some a few spoilers here.
In the last episode of Sherlock it appeared as if Jim Moriarty had somehow come back to life as well leaving us on yet another Sherlock cliff hanger which the show is becoming notorious for. I'm not quite sure that it actually is Moriarty but possibly somebody trolling Sherlock. This may have nothing or everything to do with it but just a few minutes before this in the show Mycroft mentioned another Holmes brother. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that Jim was Sherlock's long lost twin, but then again, with this show, you never know.
So when might we expect our favorite consulting detective appear on TV again?
The possibility of a date for the series four premiere varies. Some from the BBC are pushing for a christmas special this year, but if this were the case they probably would have started filming. Also Steven Moffat said that this was something that can't be rushed. In other words we might have another long wait before us. If I had to guess I would say it will probably come out by 2015, for the reason that if they would need to get moving on the 4th if they ever want to get a fifth season out, which Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat have been discussing, and as much as I hate to think about it: actors do age. At the same time however, it might be a little too much to expect it by December seeing as how Steve and Mark are pretty occupied with the new series of Doctor Who. In the mean time I put together a little video for the fun of it based on Moriarty's "return."
Please don't get me wrong I am not a Jim Moriarty fan-girl. I just recognized the similarities between him and Glados from the game Portal (another fandom of mine), and I thought this would make a good video.
And this weeks bonus:
Guess what's coming out August 1st Marvel fans?
Guardians of the Galaxy!!!
I don't know how I missed this one when I was making my list of movies to see last week, but here it is.
First of all sorry I missed posting last week. I had way too many things going on. Believe it or not I actually do have a life outside of TV and the internet. So long story short I didn't have time to research and type up everything, so I've made this one a little bit longer than the usual to make up for that.
Today I have quite a few things I'd like to talk about: news about the new Doctor Who series with the brand new 12th Doctor played by Peter Capaldi, the choices for the next new Lego sets (they've got some good ones!), speculation and rumors for Sherlock series 4, and other upcoming movies.
I'll talk about Legos first. It's been some time since I've researched any proposed Lego sets, but I happened to see something about a lego set related to one of my searches. So I clicked on the link and read all about it. This is probably the most excited I've ever been for a Lego set to come out. There is no doubt I will own this set as soon as it becomes available! What is it I'm so excited about? Take a look:
It's not officially for sale yet, and might not be. How it works is several different ideas for new Lego series are put to this commity and they're researched and voted on, and even we get to vote on which one we would like to see in stores so that we can purchase them. So what other sets is Sherlock going up against? I have to admit all of these are great ideas and I would really like to own a lot of them:
Adventure Time Tree House
A Cool Japanese House
An awesome transforming mecha bot,
Zelda play set,
And... HOLY CRAP! The Back to the Future DeLorean!
Looks like it's remote controlled too!
For more about these amazing Lego sets click here.
For more info on the Sherlock set click the link below.
Lego has also teamed up with Google Chrome and they came out with a really neat building challenge program.
And now on to the exciting bit:
Doctor Who, Series Eight!
There hasn't been a whole lot on this but there have been some leaked pictures of the filming the first episode in Cardiff.
"Look at me. I'm in shock. I've got a blanket."
There have also been some interesting rumors. Peter Capaldi had made an appearance a few years ago with the 10th Doctor in The Fires of Pompeii. After Peter was revealed as the 12th Doctor, Steven Moffat was asked if the show would bring in any connection to these two characters, was it actually 12 in Pompeii? Moffat said in an interview that Capaldi's previous appearances in both Doctor Who and the spin off Torchwood would not be ignored. Plus there has been rumors of an episode called The Ghosts of Pompeii.
To see more pictures and read more about series 8 check out this link.
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And now for Sherlock. Hopefully all of you have seen all three episodes now that it has aired in both the UK and America. If you haven't don't worry, I won't reveal any spoilers, except one, and that is that the last episode ended on another big cliff-hangar. From that and what the producers of the show have hinted we can at least expect a series 4 and there have even been rumors of a series 5. Yes!
Hopefully these will come out much quicker than what it took for them to make the third season. If the next episode airs next new years I would be very, extremely happy. That just goes to show you how desperate us Sherlockians are. Most fandoms lose there sanity if they have to wait more than a few months for the next season to come out.
... except I can't really say that about Firefly enthusiasts... I know because I'm one of them. I have way to many fandoms that crush my heart. It's almost like I enjoy the pain.
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As a bonus for this week here is a list of some of the movies coming out later this year. I really want to see all of these but I have to be honest, I'm not that excited about Transformers. Unless they start improving and quit doing the same thing over and over again they're getting more and more boring. But still, I've been a Transformer junkie since I was five watching the cartoons and collecting the toys, so I'll probably end up watching the movie.
