The good folks over at SuperHeroStuff.com are always adding a bunch of cool stuff to the site, and they want to give all of you a chance to take some home for free! The winner of this contest will receive a $150 gift card while nine runners-up will each get a “Doctor Who” shirt. To enter, just click on this link and follow the directions.

Whovians will definitely want to spend some time checking out all the really amazing stuff they have for fans. Whether you’re looking for shirts, beanies, a certain scarf, Weeping Angel Masks, a sonic screwdriver or just some Tardis-related stuff, you’re bound to find what you’re looking for over there, so click here for all things Who!

For those of you unfamiliar with the LEGO Ideas program, it is an amazing effort by LEGO to take community-built sets and turn them into official, in-store sets for us fans to purchase. Past sets have included the “Ghostbusters” ECTO-1, and the Delorean from “Back to the Future”, just to name a few. It’s a fantastic program that gets us LEGO collectors all into a frenzy when a new set is announced – at LEGO has just announced the second results from the 2014 review period!

All of the sets submitted for this review were amazing, and honestly, I would have been thrilled with any of these being put into production. However, there are a lot of factors that go into this review process including licensing, cost to produce, etc. and not all can make the cut. But the good news is that this year we will be getting an awesome “WALL-E” set!

Ths set was actually created by PIXAR animator and director, Angus MacLane, which I think makes this LEGO WALL-E even cooler. I guarantee I will be picking this up when it hits retailers!

The good news doesn’t end there though! During the previous review period, it was announced that two “Doctor Who” sets were under further review, and I couldn’t be more excited that the one I was pulling for has officially been announced as a forthcoming LEGO set!

The “Doctor Who and Companions” set includes multiple Doctors and Companions, along with K9, a Weeping Angel, a Dalek, and a TARDIS that opens up to reveal the interior! Now, keep in mind that this is all gleaned from the fan-submitted set, and is subject to change before it becomes an official LEGO set, but I’m just over the moon that we are getting an official “Doctor Who” LEGO set!

Unfortunately, we will have to be patient as no release date or pricing has been announced for either set, but these are just two more amazing sets in the pipeline for 2015 that I know has at least this LEGO fan very excited!

Head on over to the LEGO Ideas Blog for even more info!

Netflix is constantly changing the content they offer, and that means that some fan favorites fall in and out of rotation over time. Due to this, a lot of people were disappointed when it was announced that many popular shows, including “Doctor Who” would be leaving Netflix at the beginning of February. Some scrambled to binge watch as many as possible while others simply decided to stop trying and looked to other avenues to get their fix.

Today we learned that Whovians-in-the-making are getting a reprieve.

According to a report from Variety, Netflix has reached a deal with the BBC to keep many of their most popular shows available on the streaming service for the foreseeable future. Fans can look forward to catching up on “Doctor Who”, “Luther”, “The Office” and many others. Some shows didn’t make the cut, so if you still haven’t seen all of “Sherlock” or “Fawlty Towers”, you’ve got till the end of the month to finish them up.

For a full list of what’s staying and what’s going, you can check out the original article here.

“Doctor Who” 2014 Special – Last Christmas (8 out of 10)  – Directed by Paul Wilmshurst; Written by Stephen Moffat; Starring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman; Special Guest: Nick Frost; Aired on BBC 12/25/14

This is a guest post from Rebecca “Sweetiebot” Frost is the dopest ladygeek in town. She enjoys flipping through comic books and button mashing her way through video games, though watching TV and reviewing it into oblivion is her strongest skill. She is a taurus and is therefore stubborn and enjoys shiny things. You can listen to her rabble on at www.hellosweetiepodcast.com.

I watched this episode a week after it aired. I was on vacation, “off the grid” and dying to know the answer to the one question I knew this special would answer: is Clara staying or leaving? I had this revelation ruined for me by simply scrolling through Facebook while waiting for gas to pump and seeing article headlines in blaring bold font, “Jenna Louise Coleman signs on for another season of Doctor Who.” Oh. Ok. The one, THE ONE spoiler I wanted to remain unspoilered, right there on my newsfeed, laughing at me. If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’ve seen the Christmas special/have Internet/don’t live under a rock, so let’s dive into this episode with the mystery and tension unjustly removed.

Christmas-y piano plays us into Clara’s house, and Clara is woken abruptly by crashing snow and voices outside. She wanders to the roof and finds Santa Claus, two elves, and a sleigh hanging out on her roof while a reindeer prances in the sky. It’s in this moment we are introduced to the best incarnation of Santa ever to grace the small screen. He’s snarky, unaware of tact, and accompanied by equally witty elves. He tries to shrug off the idea of him being Santa and Christmas when Clara comes up to see what all the ruckus is about (“Me? Santa? Ha! No no no.”). Clara admits she doesn’t believe in Santa but honestly, Clara, come on. You traveled with a man in a police box across time and space and YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN SANTA? Speaking of crazy ideas, the Doctor appears with the TARDIS and tells Clara to shut up and get inside.

Clara basically needs to pinch herself because I guess in the time she’s been alone, she’s forgotten about the Doctor and remembers the TARDIS as if it were a dream (I really hate using this description right now but I just have to). Might I mention that even though she is in her pajamas this whole episode, her makeup and eyebrow game is on point as usual?  The Doctor is vrry srs with her when he asks her if she believes in Santa Claus and she admits that in this moment, yes she does.

Cut to an frozen tundra and a woman is being sent into an infirmary to collect…something. Her crew talks her up and advise her not to think about the things or look at the things and wait what are the things? The girl, Shonna, that is being sent into the infirmary should be the next companion because she is hilarious. Apparently the things have telepathic powers and she dances through the infirmary to Christmas music which helps to distract from thinking about the things. Really, what are the things? Is Doctor Who using The Thing as the basis for this episode? I can only assume because of the arctic-ness of everything. Her mission is ruined with the Doctor and Clara show up uninvited. The things reveal themselves as icky aliens and attack. Trying to distract Clara from thinking of the things, he suggests Danny is cheating on her and she gets defensive, telling the Doctor that Danny is dead. The rest of the crew swings to the rescue but are outnumbered by icky gooey aliens. Until, SANTA! He blasts through a wall with an army of toys and suddenly this episode of Doctor Who turns into a cool B-movie. Santa sends the aliens back to bed.

Everyone revels in disbelief that Santa, Santa, has come to rescue them and the Claus Interrogation begins. He explains that there is an invasion of dream crabs (yeah…I know) and the human race in danger. The dream crab produces a telepathic field and alters perception, and therefore nothing is to be trusted. The crabs are slowly killing everyone. Or are they? He tries to get answers as to why there is even a science station at the North Pole, but only gets “it’s a long story” from everyone. The Doctor and Clara are left alone and have a weird Gift of the Magi moment, where Clara tells the Doctor she didn’t tell him Danny was dead so he could find Gallifrey but he didn’t find Gallifrey and only told Clara he did so she could live happily ever after with Danny. Awkward.

There is a group huddle in the control room that explains how they came across the dream crabs while the trapped one Santa brought breaks free of it’s glass case. One crew member mentions that the crabs are like the face huggers from Alien because of how they attach to their victim’s heads. The Doctor is offended by the idea that there is a horror movie about aliens called Alien. It’s adorable. He explains the crabs induce a dream state as the victim’s brain dissolve. He sends Clara to go get the trapped one by herself this can’t end well. She notices it’s broken free and INVESTIGATES? GIRL GET OUT OF THERE. She does math to protect her mind and her thoughts travel to Danny but no matter, she gets face hugged.

Clara wakes up in her room, morning light streaming through the curtains as Danny appears in the room dressed as Santa. She’s obviously confused, but steps seamlessly into her pretend life. A chalkboard in the hall warns her that she is dreaming and dying, but why should she care? She’s happily reunited with Danny and I’m already crying. Back at the station, the Doctor is trying to snap her out of it. He tries to find a way to kill it, but there is no way to kill it without killing her. Everyone is still not ok with Santa being a real thing.

In Clara’s dream world, she and Danny are relaxing after a nice day of Christmas-ing when there is a knock at the door. It’s the Doctor, of course, always ruining Clara’s relationship with Danny. He tells her none of this is real and it’s killing her. She wonders how he is there with her. Cut to reveal Joseph Gordon-Levitt he’s been face hugged too and they are doing Inception. The Doctor has to remind her that Danny died saving the world and Danny delivers this romantic line, “I didn’t die saving the world, I died saving Clara. The rest of you just got lucky.” Dream Danny is even aware they are in a dream and Clara is dying. He tells her, she knows, and he dream breaks up with her. And I. Am. Sobbing. He tells Clara she can miss him for five minutes a day but the rest of the day she has to go on living. They try to figure out how to wake up (die or fall, right?) while Clara tries to come to grips with losing Danny. Again. I want to stop right here and be a ball of sads happy feels.

After acknowledging they were in a dream the Doctor and Clara wake up, and the face huggers turn to ash. In the dream, the Doctor told Clara she has a headache, that it’s the alien sucking the life out of her. Back in the station she still has the headache. In fact, everyone has a headache. The Doctor asks everyone if they’ve seen “Inception,” and goes on to explain that Leonardo DiCaprio did this whole dream within a dream thing and that’s what the aliens are doing. Because seriously, why would Santa be real and come to the rescue? IT’S ANOTHER DREAM. Everyone is aware they’re dreaming now. Santa turns into a real dick and tells everyone to wake up, of course he’s not real. The brain is trying to protect itself with its own dreams, hoping to get everyone to wake up. Santa tries to put together a team building exercise (the Doctor refuses to be touchy feely or hold hands and I love him so much) and everyone wakes up! Icky aliens crumble to ashes! Doctor out. He’s ready to leave and Clara tries to get him to stay because Santa was on her roof, is he real then? Nope. Of course not. Another test, turns out we’re still dreaming. Come on, Doctor Who, don’t do this. Two dream layers are fine, any more and the trope gets tedious. Dream-dream crabs attack (the Doctor says it’s a nightmare and I cue up “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift because this is a nightmare dressed like a daydream). They ask, “who ya gonna call?” a lot in this episode, and I don’t know why I’m disappointed when Santa shows up instead of the Ghostbusters.

Santa takes them on a sleigh ride to wakefulness. Santa lets the Doctor take the reins on the sleigh and it’s very whimsical. I’m making it my cover photo on Facebook next year. HE EVEN SAYS “YIPPE AY YAY!” LIKE THIS IS AN EDITED VERSION OF DIE HARD. The crew members remember their lives and wake up in their real selves, one girl is in a wheelchair a la “Lost.” Clara, of course, refuses to wake up. The Doctor realizes she hasn’t woken up and goes to find her. He uses the sonic screwdriver to remove the dream crab and Clara wakes up. She’s old now, though. It’s been 62 years since she’s seen the Doctor and she was younger in the dreams. They share a Christmas evening together with funny hats and poppers and catching up. She’s lived a full life without the Doctor, it’s a very bittersweet moment until SANTA SHOWS UP AGAIN. THE DOCTOR IS STILL DREAMING. I FLIP THE TABLE I AM SO FURIOUS. He wakes up. Again. Goes to find Clara. Again. She wakes up young, and the Doctor invites her back to the TARDIS to travel with him. She agrees and they run out to the TARDIS. The camera pans down to a spinning top a tangerine and I guess Santa is real? 

I usually don’t care much for the Christmas specials. This one, however, is my favorite of the bunch. Possibly because Capaldi has wiggled his way into my Favorite Doctor category. Nick Frost made an excellent Santa, a unique take on a timeless character. The dream within a dream within a dream trope grew tedious, but had I not known that Clara was staying, I would have been on the edge of my seat. Steven Moffat wrote an engrossing “will she won’t she” plot, but unfortunately having the big reveal spoiled for me took the mystery out of the episode. The best thing to come out of this special is the final farewell from Danny. Coleman’s on-screen mourning felt so real. Her lack of emotion and sudden burst of sadness during their final goodbye had my heart in pieces. It was a perfect form of closure, for both the loss of Danny and an introductory season for Capaldi.

“Doctor Who” episode 8.12 – “Death in Heaven.” Starring Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Samuel Anderson, and Michelle Gomez; Written by Steven Moffat; Directed by Rachel Talalay.

I laughed, I cried, I gasped, I cried like eight more times, and I saluted. Season eight was a bit of a slow burn for me but the one-two punch of “Dark Water” and “Death in Heaven” returned me to the traditional “Who” viewing position: Edge of the seat, tissue in one hand, forgotten snack dangling from the other. And just so we’re on the same page, I don’t think I can do this without some pretty heavy spoilers but I’ll at least try to corral them into one paragraph.

In the interest of transparency, I should disclose that I’ve never wanted to be a full time reviewer of this show. This is the one hour of my week that I get to abandon critical thinking and just have fun and feel. I don’t want to think about analyses or criticisms (though I acknowledge that there are plenty of both and that Moffat’s style can be problematic). My six day work week ends at 6pm on Saturday, and come 9 o’clock I’m on the couch, phone silenced, squeaky toy hidden from the dog, unwrapping the splurge of fattening take out and soda. This is my hour, and by gummy I’m not going to waste any of that escape on real-life thoughts.

But imagine my confusion this season when my mind frequently wandered. Imagine the perplexity that came with realizing that ALL MY FEELS were, well, they were just fine. 

But then along comes “Dark Water” with its death and plot twists and complete upheaval of most religious canon and I am back in hardcore, y’all. It’s conclusion, “Death in Heaven,” opens with The Doctor and Missy on Earth, surrounded by U.N.I.T. as Missy’s diabolical plan to unleash Cybermen comes to fruition. Both are loaded on board a plane, but while our Miss Osgood watches over a captive Missy, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart informs the Doctor of his new job. President. of Everything. And subsequently, Commander in Chief of an Earthly army.

Meanwhile, Clara is attempting an escape by confusing some Cybermen, when a mysterious rogue machine comes to her aid. She wakes up in a graveyard to learn that her true love has been almost-deleted. Danny Pink is now prisoner to the cyber suit, but through some faulty wiring he’s not yet part of the hive mind and is still experiencing all his painful human emotions. Clara puts in a distress call to The Doctor, but since Missy’s broken free he’s dealing with some problems of his own. Missy orders the destruction of Boat One and takes several lives before she leaves.

The Doctor was able to escape via the TARDIS, and arrives at Clara’s side in the graveyard. She’s trying to turn on Danny’s inhibitor so that he may finally have some peace, to which The Doctor vehemently protests and claims the minute Danny is connected, he’ll kill them all. Unfortunately, Danny can only share his hive intel and help The Doctor save the day if he’s connected. Missy shows up to taunt everyone (which includes telling The Doctor where he can find Galifrey), but in the end it’s Danny – even in his hardwired state – who proves himself to be the worthiest of heroes.

The episode did a great job of showing how all the players have the capacity for villainy without giving them red in their ledger. All the emotion that I’d not experienced previously in season eight was heaped on me Saturday night. The relationship between Danny and Clara took place mostly off screen this season, which is completely justifiable, and I thought the writers did an incredible job these past two episodes in showing us the depth of emotion and fervor they had developed for one another. The Doctor’s vitriolic hate towards organized militia, though possibly arbitrary in its intensity for many episodes, came to a fine and poignant head and was dealt with in a touching and meaningful way when he relinquished his power to Danny. 

OK, here’s where it’s going to get spoilery.

The episode concluded – kind of – on a down note equal to Luke finding out Vader’s his father, to Ben in the farm house, to finding out WHAT’S IN THE BAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAX. The Doctor enters Missy’s Galifreyan coordinates and finds empty space. His rage and pain was almost unbearable to watch, and certainly exemplified Capaldi’s stamp on his Doctor. Clara wakes one night to a portal from the Nethersphere, but instead of Danny passing through he sends the child he had killed back home and instructs Clara to help the boy get home to his parents. Seeing Clara’s pain at losing Danny a third time combined with her pride in having known and loved such a good man was easily the best performance Coleman has given on the show. And, sidebar, it was also the breaking point for my feels. 

And in a final chapter comparable to Tom Berenger on his knees in the jungle, to Briony telling her actual story, to John Merrick taking a nap, The Doctor and Clara meet for a lunch of lies. Clara lets The Doctor believe that Danny used his Cyber-Control bracelet to return to her, and The Doctor tells Clara he’s found Galifrey and shall return home. They share a thank you and farewell, as well as a rare embrace that hurts so very much more than it soothes(by the way, I think Clara is pregnant). The show has already announced that Jenna Coleman’s last episode will be the Christmas special, but this certainly carried an air of finality. And so I cried a little more and got really mad and started counting the days ’til Christmas. The credits rolled.

And then Nick Frost as Santa Claus burst into the TARDIS to jostle a sulking Doctor into reality, and I squeed so loud it made my cat break wind. Fourty four days until Christmas!!

I lucked out one evening while perusing woodrocket.com (I was trying to find the James Deen Loves Food series so I could watch him order Del Taco for 20 minutes) when I discovered the “Doctor Who” porn parody, “Doctor Whore”, had finally been released. I am, unfortunately, the girl who uses “YOU NAME A PORN PARODY, I’VE SEEN IT!” to make friends, so I had to put aside previous James Deen-y food desires and watch this new addition. It’s porn, so the costumes are silly, the acting is stretched, and the wigs are atrocious. But, what typically makes a good porn parody is the writing. And thanks to Lee Roy Myers, porn parody legend, my goodness does “Doctor Whore” deliver.

Doctor Whore is broken into four parts. Let’s evaluate each part, shall we?

Part 1

Part one opens with a close up of the Please Her Box, a giant blue TARDIS replica that, instead of asking police to respond to all calls, requests genital experts. Sure. Anyway, sirens are going off and an actor with floppy Matt Smith hair and strained eccentric-ness enters.He looks around, confused, and enter two Cybermen holding two silver vibrators. The Doctor is surprised, claims to be Earth’s protector because he’s “a sex lord for crying out loud!” and asks how they managed to breach his defenses. Speaking from behind painted paper plates, the CyberSemen (ha!) explain their plan to upgrade humanity’s dicks and vajayjays. They bicker between each other (“I pilot the ship, Jeff. Don’t belittle me in front of our enemies.”) and I giggle a little harder than I should. A sudden twist presents itself when the Doctor asks who helped them, and they respond robotically: The Doctor. A porn with a twist!

Cut to three days earlier, when Amy Pond shows Rory her police kiss-o-gram costume. Amy, in order to earn some extra cash, wants to return to her kiss-o-gram job. Rory obviously has a problem with her going around kissing a bunch of randoms. Amy explains that this time she’s a fuck-o-gram. Rory then decides to sell stuff they own (including his favorite porn parody DVD Shercock) in order to prevent her from, you know, doing that job. Also, it’s his birthday! Before they jump right into the banging, jokes include: Balleck…exsperminate! Exsperminate! I honestly can’t write the other joke here because it was so gross I groanlaughed. You guys – this is so much plot in only 5 minutes, kudos to them. Then, of course, 24 minutes of banging.

Part 2

Part two picks up immediately where part one left off. The Doctor whooshwhooshes his way into Amy and Rory’s living room right after their -ahem- and Amy immediately comes on to The Doctor. Rory is having none of that (as he should) and The Doctor stands around holding a bowl of fish fingers and custard. I would love to have been in the room when these actors, who I assume have never seen an episode of Doctor Who, read the script and witnessed their confusion to everything that happens in this porn.

What’s so wonderful about this scene is the writers have nailed the dynamic between Amy, Rory, and the Doctor. Amy’s crush, Rory’s defensiveness, and The Doctor’s obliviousness. Turns out, The Doctor is there to warn them about the CyberSemen, but it’s too late! Amy and Rory have turned into CyberSemen! The Doctor runs back into the TARDIS and guess who’s there? River Song -er- Dong. As they enter the TARDIS she compares it to a vagina. You know, smaller on the outside, larger on the inside. I am embarrassed. River has come from the future, four days from now, and the CyberSemen are winning. She tells the Doctor it was something he did (turns out he slept with a CyberSemen and caught a cyber-sti? Or something?), but no time for finding solutions. Only time for banging! Also, no beds in the TARDIS, only sleeping bags and uncomfortable-looking chairs.

Were I to deconstruct the character portrayal in this scene, I’d say the actress playing River had never seen an episode of Doctor Who and was told to say “spoilers” while wearing a silly wig. Which is such a bummer considering the actors playing Amy and Rory did an astounding job.

Part 3

Finally, some Tenth Doctor and Rose! Part three opens three-billion years in the future (and one Doctor back “it’ll make sense later”) with a Tennant-y actor and Rose on a platform watching planet Queef as it prepares to queef. I don’t…uh…then, an actor wearing a vagina costume walks up, introduces itself by queefing. Turns out it’s the ambassador to planet Queef, and Rose, who makes a fart noise with her mouth, offends it. The CGI planet then proceeds to queefsplode and I literally cannot believe I am typing all of these words. Rose comments that it’s kind of romantic, and The Doctor comments that, “…a giant, fiery vagina always gets my space gonads rumbling.” Honestly, this is the only pairing I was super excited for and part three literally contributes nothing to the plot.

Part 4

At last, our titular tale reaches it’s climax (I see what I did there too, and I’m really sorry about it). Picking up after the dramatic “To Be Continued’ from part three -I forgot to mention afterwards Rose said she felt funny and then we heard a TARDIS whooshwhooshing in- part four opens at the beginning of part one. The CyberSemen have trapped Martha Jones, who comments that her cell is creepy like a Robin Thicke album. The CyberSemen are the best part of this parody. They have the best awkward and believable lines. Captain Jack Harkness (!) comes in to rescue Martha and all the CyberSemen (“Frank! Jeff! Steve!”) all shut down. The Tennant-y Doctor comes in to help the Smith-y Doctor and the plan is revealed. The Doctor went back in time and uploaded the contracted cyber-sti to the CyberSemen and I guess everything works out except when the Tennant-y Doctor gets shot. There is an epic five minute shoot out when Martha and Jack storm in to help after the Smith-y Doctor gets shot. Part four has so many awesome one-liners I don’t want to write them all here because you kind of just need to see it. Martha freaks out over The Doctor’s death (of course she would, Martha) but a newly regenerated Doctor walks into the TARDIS–and it’s a lady of color. “Why would they miss the opportunity to cast a woman or a person of color to properly reflect…” is best quote of this impeccably self-aware porn. Proceed to threeway between new lady Doctor, Captain Jack and Martha. Unfortunately, the lady Doctor wears the fez and bowtie and ruins everything.

Overall, I’d say Lee Roy Myers delivered a porn parody worthy for it’s fandom. It’s this writing and these character dynamics I wish I could see in the actual show. Could you imagine if Steven Moffat wrote porn?

Rebecca “Sweetiebot” Frost is the dopest ladygeek in town. She enjoys flipping through comic books and button mashing her way through video games, though watching TV and reviewing it into oblivion is her strongest skill. She is a taurus and is therefore stubborn and enjoys shiny things. You can listen to her rabble on at www.hellosweetiepodcast.com.

Microsoft announced via the Xbox Wire that they have come to an agreement with Mojang and the BBC to bring “Doctor Who’ skins to the Xbox version of Minecraft. These skins will feature characters from all 50 years of the Doctor with different skin packs. Each pack will contain 6 doctors along with their companions. As of right now we know that it will include the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and his companion Clara (pictured above). The skin pack will also include the Doctor’s arch-enemy the Dalek’s.  Allons y!

According to reports from the Mirror UK, Clara Oswalt’s time as a companion is nearing an end. 

As anyone even remotely versed in Who lore would know, the show has made a fifty year legacy of its rotating cast. A good portion of the fun has always been the “who’s next?!!?” game, even when we’re incredibly sad to say goodbye to our favorite Doctors and companions. But the news that Coleman will depart, probably during 2014’s Christmas epic, does seem a bit sudden. It’s hard to believe that by then she will have been a companion for 18 months, one of the longest spans for that particular role. It doesn’t seem like she’s been around that long.

With no offense intended towards Ms. Coleman, I’m not sad to see Clara take a new path. Clara’s presence always seemed a bit “Pond-lite,” and has been one of the least original personalities in the reboot. I’m incredibly excited for the opportunities this vacancy brings – namely the prospect of a companion who doesn’t flirt with The Doctor. Maybe this one could be a dude! Maybe even – dare I say it? – a not white dude? 

Undoubtedly the new companion will be a fresh face, but since the timey wimey of the Whoverse is nice and wibbly wobbly, one certainly can’t rule out past friends making new appearances. We don’t really know anything about 12’s personality, but based on his few lines in “The Time of the Doctor” and some of Capaldi’s recent works, I’m gonna assume “gruff.” Unfortunately, the two who I would earmark as favorites to match wits with a grumpy Doctor are not bloodly likely to rejoin the timeline anytime soon. Donna’s head would explode, and the River we last saw was her first appearance after the events of “Silence in the Library” which certainly implies that she’s, well, spoilers.

I think it’s easier to communicate what I don’t want in a companion. There are literally infinite possibilities, so I don’t want another flippy young woman who stares in wide eyed wonder. I’d much rather have a scientist who can keep up with the Doctor’s physics jive. Or a personality that can help the Doctor after the absolutely monumental events of the last few episodes, which are sure to alter him beyond even what a regeneration would do. And Mr. Moffat? Please, in the name of all that is holy, please, don’t make the next companion a kid. 

This episode features: Tyson, Kiley, Jimmy, Lucas, and Tom, with special guest Cassidy!

Topic: TV/Movies/Geek News

Headlines:

• “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
• “The Amazing Spider-Man” Spin-Offs
• Star Wars
• Netflix’s “Daredevil” Series News
• New “Doctor Who”

Discussion: FantasyCon 2014

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Over on his official Facebook fan page, Jason David Frank (aka the Green Power Ranger) posted this picture and may have accidentally let slip an unannounced guest:

I’d recommend taking this with a grain of salt since Matt Smith has yet to be officially announced, but all of us “Doctor Who” fans had better start saving our pennies for a photo opp/autograph just in case.

We’ll let you know when and if Matt Smith is confirmed, so keep an eye on BSR! to find out for sure!