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The BBC has revealed the identity of the eleventh Doctor–Matt Smith. Smith, at age 26, will be the youngest actor to star in Doctor Who, being three years younger than Peter Davison when he started playing The Doctor. The above video shows an interview with Smith on his reactions to getting the role.
Smith sort of already has a connection to Doctor Who. His TV debut was in the 2006 adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke. The episode starred former Billie Piper as Sally Lockhart.
There is a spoiler floating around on line regarding the ending of Battlestar Galactica, assuming the rumors are true. The rumor is that the series ends with a scene with music but no dialog as Six walks through Times Square in a red dress. Of course this still leaves open plenty of possibilities as to how we get to this point. There has been speculation that the mid-season cliff hanger took place on an alternative Earth and perhaps they reach the real Earth at the end. Another possibility is that the fleet settles on the planet we see in the distant past, with this taking place centuries later. Regardless of how this takes place, is Six plotting to leave this Earth open to yet another Cylon invasion?
High resolution pictures have been released of the upcoming Star Trek movie. A set is available at TrekMovie.com (or click on the picture above for a larger version).
In another post, TrekMovie.com discussed how the movie manages to avoid conflicts with Star Trek canon while also being free to go in different directions:
Earlier this month in an interview TrekMovie.com, Star Trek co-writer Roberto Orci confirmed that Star Trek starts in the same canon universe that we are familiar with, but that much of the new film takes place in an alternative universe/timeline, which was created when the villain Nero goes back in time from the TNG era and destroys the USS Kelvin (a ship with both of James T. Kirk’s parents on board)…
Although Orci noted that this is not necessarily something that needs to be understood to enjoy the film, it could have implications with regard to future films or the ‘extended universe’ of Star Trek. For example it would be perfectly within canon for there to be books, comics and games set in either universe, including the ‘original’ universe after Nero and Spock left for the ‘alternative’ universe. It also shows that the film makers do not see the new film as ‘overwriting’ Star Trek canon and history as we know it.
The post proceeds to consider the science behind the use of parallel universes and time travel.
The People has an interview with John Barrowman. Here’s a portion with information on the upcoming Torchwood miniseries, along with cuts made for the U.S. audience.
He denied speculation he wants to quit Torchwood – in fact he’d like each series to be TWICE as long.
He said: “I love playing Captain Jack and if I could play him until I’m 90, I would. But I’d rather do a series of 10 or 13 episodes because it’s a lot of work for just five.
“The next series is about Torchwood fighting the government rather than just aliens and is a lot darker.
“Jack has to make a decision no parent – that’s a big hint – should have to make.”
But the show is also going to be toned down for America.
John said: “We’re not swearing or doing anything close to the bone because it’s been a huge success in the US and the networks won’t accept it with all that stuff in it.”
Does that mean John’s going to keep his clothes on for once?
Actually, no.
He said: “I’ll still be getting naked and it will still be saucy – but it’s done with taste.
We’ll doing everything so it doesn’t have to be heavily edited for the US.”
Wife and I watched the new X-Files flick last night on DVD. Not bad at all. A little gruesome at parts, cutting off heads and stuff. But one of the few X-Files where you could actually comprehend it the first time, and didn’t need a second viewing to catch it all.
It helped that this was a stand alone story and not part of their mythology, which by the end became overly convoluted.