New Season of Doctor Who!
Well, the new season of Dr. Who premiered on CBC last night. I’ve been waiting for it since forever and was pleasantly confused, since I had the sound muted most of the time.
It’s like a zillion years in the future, but humans are still around. The Doctor and Billie are on New Earth, which is really a moon of an apparent gassy giant. Since there’s a New New York, it must be a cross-over episode with Futurama, but there’s no Planet Express. There’s cyclopses, but we never see them. I think I did see the Planet Express ship off in the distance during a long shot.
Anyway, there’s these sort-of lizard-witches who run a youth hostel. Sister Bertrille is in charge.
There’s a fat guy turning to textured cement, a giant head in an aquarium who’ll grant your wish if you rub his tummy, the Imperial Senate from Phantom Menace but filled with sick people like the Matrix, buncha stuff.
There’s also the Snobby Snotty Flat Lady from the second or third episode last year, whichever it was, and her tattooed, cicatrixed pet humanoid, Smitherz.
I won’t spoil the rest of it for you. If you missed it, you’ll just have to wait for the DVD.
(Next week is Dame Ian McKellen as Queen Victoria looking for Prince Albert in the can, or something…)
All very exciting. Very cool.