Geekmas 2021: Post-Credits Scene.

With seasonal thanks to Karli, Chris, Laurie and my workplace Secret Santa for presents under the tree, Amazon gift cards and Vanilla Mastercards!

Now all I need is a week or two without interruptions to read them all...

- Sid

Wee Doctor Bea?

I could not be happier. 

There have been some great guest stars on Doctor Who over the years, some before they were famous, and some after: Kylie Minogue, Nick Frost, James Corden, Michael Sheen and Sir Ian McKellen in voice-over only appearances, Carey Mulligan, John Cleese, Felicity Jones, Simon Pegg, and so on, and I'm pleased and excited to see Irish comedian/actor Aisling Bea join the list and bring her particular brand of deadpan lunacy to the show with her upcoming appearance on the 2022 New Year's Special.

My god, imagine if she ended up as the next Doctor.  There's some precedent for this, it wouldn't be the first time that guest stars on the show have found their way into starring roles - after all, Peter Capaldi played a Roman marble merchant in season 4* of Doctor Who before he found his way to the helm of the TARDIS.

Is it too soon to start an e-mail campaign or a petition or something?

- Sid

 

* Coincidentally, Karen Gillan also made her first pre-companion Doctor Who appearance in the same episode.

Doctor Who: The Next Generation

It pleases me beyond words to discover that this is what my grand-nephews in Ontario wait for their schoolbus in.

- Sid

OK Boomer.

I recently installed Fallout: New Vegas on the PC that I use for older games after realizing that, given its October 2010 release date, it qualifies as an older game now - how time flies. The game's age was driven home sharply when I began the Things That Go Boom quest, which involves dealing with a xenophobic conservative tribal group located at Nellis Air Force Base and armed with heavy artillery:  the Boomers, a phrase which has acquired unexpected meaning since the game's debut.

The accidental joke is that, in the context of the game, the Boomers are sort of, well, Boomers: their lives are based on an obsolete and outdated standard, they're gun nuts, and some of them haven't left their insular enclave for over 50 years.

- Sid

The Mandatory Christmas Cthulhoo.

Courtesy of The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom).  It's a bit challenging to reconcile this jolly figure with the entity from our last vacation...

- Sid