Who Should Be the 11th Doctor?

• Bill Nighy
• Sam Troughton
• Sean Pertwee
• Tracey Ullman
• Rik Mayall
• Jason Thomas Kocher
• Michael Palin
• David Walliams
• David Morrissey

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One of the tenants of the ever enduring cosmos of Doctor Who that make it just so enduring is the titular character’s ability to regenerate.

In the reality of the TV show, this means that should the Doctor be mortally injured, all of his cells die and are instantaneously regenerated causing the character to take on a whole new physical look and scrambling his brain just so as to change his personality. In this, you have a character who is immortal, but for whom danger still deposits a lump of coal in the heart of the audience should they lose the current Doctor to whom they have become so sentimentally attached.

In the reality of the entertainment business, this means you have an incredible franchise where you need not worry should the actor that plays the title character [...]

If Neil Gaiman writes an episode of Doctor Who, the plot will revolve around:

• Some random pre-existing mythology. Spin the wheel…
• Shakespeare meeting Shakespeare and having a threesome with an alien Shakespeare.
• Hailing Satan.
• The Cybermen rebuilt in the image of Morrisey.
• Something otherwise brilliant…

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Doctor Who is a brilliant show. If you are not familiar with it, the general premise follows a mostly quirky Time Lord (alien-type) referred to only as The Doctor, travelling anywhere and everywhere in time and space. When gravely injured, he regenerates into different forms (actors) so that he lives more or less forever in, what should be, increasingly marketable forms.

Given the almost unlimited nature of such a show, its no wonder that it lasted upwards of 26 years until some smart guy took the reigns and started stapling question marks all over everything and the general consensus in England was that it would be best if the show didn’t exist for a few decades.

Despite continuing on in other media and a failed re-launch in 1998, it didn’t really resurface until 2005 when [...]

When did Dr. Samuel Beckett NOT have tits?

I am in one of those rare moods. It is a dumb, dumb rage that destroys one’s tolerance for the perception of every single molecule of one’s current existence. In this particular instance, it is caused by not having cone wrenches to fix a bike wheel. And the immediate object of my intolerance is the classic television series, Quantum Leap. I love that show – like crazy – but, with my emotions as they are, I have lost all ability to suspend my disbelief, no longer ignoring plot contrivances or gleefully enduring campy comedy.

For those who care and don’t already know, here is the plot of the show as summarized as it almost always was in the opening narration:

“Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into [...]