The New Doctor Doesn’t Know How to Work the TARDIS
I kid, I kid. It’s not like the Tenth Doctor didn’t have his share of TARDIS mishaps, and this doesn’t seem nearly so unreasonable as getting hit by a Space Titanic. At any rate, here’s the first actual clip from the first episode of Doctor Who starring Matt Smith as the Doctor, trying to fix his TARDIS and chatting with a young future companion Amy Pond. Overall, the short clip isn’t blowing my mind with awesomeness, but neither does it make me worried. Of course, it is very short.
I tell you what does make me excited, though — Steven Moffat. As those who follow me on Twitter know, I finally caught Moffat’s Jekyll series earlier this week and was just blown away. It was like a mini-Lost, full of suspense and mysteries and awesome moments and a great dual performance by James Nesbitt. It went off the rails a bit at the end, but that’s certainly something I’m used to with Doctor Who, so now I’m really looking forward to this new season.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.