Days of Ill Omen

[the_gneech]

Bad news: Christians pray to a golden bull for prosperity. Good grief, people, Heston's only been dead six months, did you forget already? *ker-SMITE!*

Worse news: David Tennant officially stepping down as the Doctor. Feh, you're all wimps! Tom Baker did it for seven years!

-The Gneech

Comments

[exatron.livejournal.com]

I was surprised by that news. I thought the point of only doing four specials in 2009 was to let Tennant do other things that year so he'd be available for the 2010 season.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

*Giggles uncontrollably* Ok, so they made it look bad, but it's probably more a symbol upon which to lay their hands, for the healing of the market. After all, "the fervent prayers of a righteous main availeth much."

-=TK

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

Tennant did it for 4 years still!

As for a replacement, in the UK some favourite names are knocking about on who people would LIKE to play him, not neccessarily who will.

Bill Bailey
Alan Davies
Bill Nighy
Stephen K Amos
Russell Brand
Justin Lee Collins
Jimmy Carr

Look them up :)

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Tom Baker was the exception. The standard seems to have been three years at least at first. It looks like there were a couple two year stints and the surprisingly short one-year of Eccleston, and the single appearance of Paul McGann.

It's not too surprising that Tennant decided to go leave after four (or is it just three-plus?) years. It will be interesting to see his successor and how he is written.

[maxgoof.livejournal.com]

To be accurate, they are not praying TO the bull, they are praying BESIDE the bull.

[kesh.livejournal.com]

While laying hands on it. Yeah, they're not praying TO the bull, but there's that whole "appearance of impropriety" thing going on, and you'd think they'd have seen this one a mile away. It's far too easy to draw the parallels.

[radbaron.livejournal.com]

They used the special effects budget to pay Tom Baker...

ps SPOLIER ALERT from reading that article. May you find a lich in Moria! :)

CBC is playing Doctor Who on Fraiday evenings, but we dont get the Christmas specials. Last episode was Doctors Daughter, so we're 6 months behind BBC. If you go to the CBC website [url] www.cbc.ca/doctorwho [/url] you can actually watch the episodes after they air. Tomorrows episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp" is about Agatha Christie, and the time she went missing for 10 days.

[genecatlow.livejournal.com]

But that was Tom Baker, Gneech! Kind of an unfair comparison, you know.

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the thing is, aren't Time Lords supposed to have only 13 lives in them? We're starting to run a little thin, aren't we?