We are rapidly approaching the 50th anniversary, and everyone is gearing up for it. These trailers really set the tone for the New Who 7th Season, which will lead us up to the celebration. The first by recapping the New Doctor so far, while the second pulls from every Doctor back to the beginning. I just have this to say to Last Whovian: amazing job, and keep up the good work!
2NE1 is my current favorite South Korean band, and even though they keep hitting the top of the charts there is nothing even a little Top40 about them. Their latest song, I Love You, is a lot mellower than their earlier work, so I hope you can appreciate this total change of pace, and their song Lonely is also quite laid back. Just to give you a feel for their range, a few of those tunes; enjoy!
I have been reading about Robot And Frank making the rounds of the Film Fests for a while now, and am excited that it is finally coming to some regular theaters finally! I say some because it is still only in limited release, but at least it is available.
It is a sad week when your choices for movies are between Zombie A-Hole and Attack of the Killer Backpacks.
In TV we have Planet Dinosaur, speculative science rather than Sci-Fi, and quite worth your time to check out. You might enjoy taking a look at this page as well if you are looking for a bit more.
Anime has a few new goodies this week starting with Shangri-La, one of my favorite shows from last year. It deals with a future Japan in the middle of a climatic crises and under economic attack, with a ruling elite holding onto the ultimate gated community while the poor starve and live on the street. Until Kuniko take up the gauntlet and fights for the survival of her people, storming the heavily armed gates of heaven’s suburb itself to see them through.
Shakugan no Shana is a story of a warrior who battles demons with a flaming sword, and the dead human boy who has been turned into one of those flames. They work together to defeat evil and maintain the balance between the supernatural world and the mundane.
Finally, No. 6: The Complete Collection takes place in a near future world where a handful of survivors cling desperately to life. There is a mystery to be solved if our two protagonists are to have any hope of survival, and they have to do it before the corrupt elite wipe them out.
The new show from BBC America is Copper, about a cop in 1864 New York City. As far as I know this is something new for them, producing their own original TV series, but they have some good ones in the pipe. I am particularly looking forward to seeing David Tennent as a spy, the closest he might get to playing Bond.
The target location being Woodlawn Park in Portland, Oregon. The team from Atomic Arts are doing live presentations of Journey to Babel as presented on screen by TOS (The Original Series, as if you didn’t already know). I will now be going through all the Con Event postings in my part of the country to see if I can find them performing at a venue a little close than the other side of the continent, since I would love to see this on stage.
The story itself was written by D.C. Fontana, and first published in the March 1953 edition of the pulp magazine Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder. J/K, because that’s the magazine from the DS9 episode Far Beyond the Stars in which the entire cast got to be humans putting out a science fiction magazine, one of my personal favorites from that series. But they posted it that way in Memory Alpha, and after I got done laughing I just had to pass the joke along.