Well, okay, not literally.
But see this.
Tag Archives | Science Fiction
Don’t Leave Me Hanging on the Telephone
Doctor Who starts up again on August 27th. In the meantime, here’s a prequel:
Thinking Outside the Box?
I don’t think the following counts as a spoiler, since it’ll be virtually impossible for any Doctor Who fan to avoid knowing it for long.
We’ve had plenty of evidence that Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill (Amy and Rory) are leaving the show. (They’ve each accepted other roles, and they’ve each referred to Doctor Who in the past tense in interviews.)
Yet as I’ve previously reported, we’ve also had good evidence that they’re not leaving, or at least that Karen isn’t – namely, Karen’s explicit statement that she’s coming back after the end of the current series.
This news item clears up the confusion. (CHT TARDIS Newsroom.) You know me, I love the reconciliation of A and non-A.
She Sighed For So Much Melody
Wallace Stevens’ “Peter Quince at the Clavier” and J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Tale of Tinúviel” always remind me of each other – and not just because they both rhyme “quavering” with “wavering.” (Whether Tolkien is likely to have read Stevens I don’t know; I’m not sure how well known he was outside the u.s.)
Tolkien is reading his own poem; I don’t know who’s reading the Stevens. Great voice, but he makes a couple of mistakes (as you’ll notice if you read along).
Great and Pterrible Signs
So if the sign is about pterodactyls, why does the image on this sign (and likewise the associated trailer) depict a pteranodon instead?
Who Drew This?
Guess the mystery artist:
Then see the answer.