The Angels Have The Phone Box

Ok there is something about me that some might not know: I don’t follow television shows.  Lost.  What?  American Idol. Who? 24. When? The Sopranos. Why?  Survivor. Where?   Ok I’m not THAT out of it.  I know about all of these shows but I just can’t get into following shows, until now.

The new Dr. Who is just frickin wowtastic awesome.  First of all it’s Sci-Fi which is cool and on top of that it’s British which is cool too.  The newest Doctor is played by David Tennant and he fits the part so well it’s just hard to imagine any other person doing it.  Now I’d seen Dr. Who in the past and it was decent enough.  The writing for the series now is just damn good.

The episode I reference in the title of this post is called Blink and it was just simply amazing.  It was bizarre and creepy and had a very good ending.  It’s a stand alone episode, meaning, you can watch it independent of the rest of the series and it still makes sense.  I’m sure it will get referenced again in the future.   Statues in an old house aren’t really statues.  They’re ancient beings with a very strange defense mechanism which also allows them to prey on their victims.  They kill in a very peculiar way as well.  The feed on your potential time energy by zapping you back in time any number of years.  By the end of the episode you’re thoroughly terrified of statues especially when the main players come face to face with the statues true forms.  The strobe light scene at the end was wicked.  The last time I saw sci-fi that good was Serenity.

The Doctor routinely references pop culture too.  He’s referenced Harry Potter more than once.  Which is funny because David Tennant was actually in The Goblet of Fire as Barty Crouch Jr.  He’s referenced  This is Spinal Tap by once turning a pipe organ up to “11″. 

It’s fun, cooky, great one-liners, good characters and good stories.  I highly recommend it.