Planet Nectarius

I’ve been getting into a new realm of nerdy lately. I should mention first that I’m writing this post while I think deeply about emails that I need to respond to. I love you all.

I think I was bitten by a bug while I was in college. There were many things being shared over DC++, ranging from episodes of Scrubs, meh, Grey’s Anatomy, bleh, and Battlestar Galactica, omg it’s really this good!!

I also found more obscure stuff, like bad quality Real Media files of most of Daria, which were awesome. And the entire series of the old X-Men animated series. I watched them all (not Grey’s Anatomy). Even though I nearly killed myself watching Battlestar Galactica for 2 days straight – with just Tim Tam’s and Nutri Grain for sustenance (bleh) — I think the most damage came from the X-Men.

There was something about the X-Men cartoon series that I found deeply connected to being 13. Anyway.. I’ve recently subscribed to Marvel digital comics, and have been delving into the infinitely deeply and richer (and more perilous) vastness of the Marvel comic collection. Given the bug, I’ve also been stopping by comic shops and picking up a Hellboy (by DC) volume or two every weekend. I’m up to six now.

They are absolutely fantastic works of art. I highly recommend them.

When buying Hellboy today, I stumbled upon a book signing with Gary Russell who’s written the new Doctor Who series.

So I had to buy it.

I’ve also been reading books with just lines of text, they’ve been emotionally intense.

~Tim.

I’ve been meaning to rant about how crap the season finale of Doctor Who was.

Russell T Davies is a shockingly bad writer, I’m hoping he sticks to being the boss next season and lets the talent do the scripts. That is after we are inflicted with his christmas special starring Kylie Minogue trying to act.

I’m not really good at coherent rants however so I direct this post towards this blog. I’m so happy to see that there are people don’t rate the finale as the “best who eva!”

My hopes for next season are that RTD stops writing, let him inflict his scripts on Torchwood. I love Torchwood, but it seems a far more suitable medium for his sensationalist over the top stories. The other hopes are that they deal with Martha’s character intelligently, and that they get Steven Moffat (who wrote the episode Blink) to write a few.

Blink was by far the best episode of the series and that says a lot for the writer when the Doctor and Martha were barely in it, yet great when they were. Steven Moffat, I am your fan!

Okay big spoiler rant follows:
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I found the official BBC Martha Jones blog here.

I don’t know if it’s official story line canon or not (like the books are also a grey area), but it’s fun to see what Martha would write about in between shows.