So here it is. This will be exciting to some! For the few of you out there who care, the folks at the BBC have decided to make the new Doctor have some "Geek Chic" (their words). I imagine this is the retro sneaker bit.
(I found this article in today's Guardian and cheekily snapped the photo out for you to see.) The producer that was interviewed says "I think we've come up with something distinctive that's both timeless and modern, with a bit of geek chic and of course, a dash of Time Lord". I guess this (and the scary-looking sidekick in the background) is a package meant to appeal to the younger generation while still keeping the adults interested. Yay! (For those of you not following: The Doctor is a "Time Lord" from another planet who travels in that thing behind him. The box thing that says "Police Box". It's huge inside and only a box on the outside. Some trick with extra dimensions and such. He goes in and does a bunch of computations and pulls a lever and then he's elsewhere and elsewhen. He's basically a practical String Theorist.... Look, this is prime time British TV, ok?) In addition to the style improvements (now he's too well-dressed to be a String Theorist) we are promised new villians. Rather than just resurrect the Cybermen, there's going to be "an evil race of Cat Women". Double yay! Now we're talking! (Were there ever any good races of Cat Women by the way?) I don't know if this show ("Dr. Who") ever gets to screens in the USA (or anywhere else outside the UK), so it might all be meaningless to several of you. Sorry. Its a bit meaningless to me too, but I keep hoping that one day the BBC will be truly creative and one day when the doctor regenerates and comes back (as his people do....and he does this a lot; this is the tenth doctor since 1970), he'll be a woman. That would be a really fun scenario to play with, don't you think? -cvj
