THE Doctor

                    
From Left to Right: Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler, Rose Tyler, Tenth DOCTOR, Captain Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, and behind, the TARDIS

         In lack of anything to blog about, Doctor Who. The show originated and is still being developed in the United Kingdoms, but it has made its way into American programming, which I think is amazing. The show started in 1963, with a mysterious man, a Time Lord that traveled through time and space, and death and disasters seem to follow him, as he encounters time after time enemies as supernatural occurrences that are pure sci-fi. The show faded out for a while, before it picked back up by popular demand as the newer and currently broadcasted series. This new series has 5 series featuring the the ninth(Christopher Eccleston), tenth(David Tennant), and eleventh(Matt Smith) lives of the Doctor.

         As with all time lords, the Doctor has two hearts, twelve lives and the power to regenerate through them(which changes his appearance!), and apparently has no name. In this new series, he is the last time lord in existence, the rest of his kind having died out in The Great Time War against the Daleks, a unemotional and deadly race. He possesses the last TARDIS, a machine that travels through time and space, a living machine that looks remarkably like a blue police box. It was meant to disguise itself based on its surroundings and time period, but when the chameleon device broke down, the doctor decided he enjoyed the current form too much to fix it. Also in his skills is a brilliant mind with eons of experience, and it is seriously refreshing to have the hero know what the heck he's doing. A sonic probe he calls a sonic screwdriver that accesses just about all devices and can scan and identify different things, plus a lot of other uses. Psychic paper allows the subject to see what they want to see or whatever the user wants them to see.

         Because travelling through time alone is pretty lonely and he's the last of his kind, he usually finds a human companion who accompanies him. The heartbreaking fact is he can never really have a love, because he is cursed to endure forever while the wither and die of age. In this series he has a bored with life girl named Rose, who decides to accompany him for two series and becomes his first love. Captain Jack Harkness, a jaunty, time traveling con man turned slightly more decent, and is later gifted with an extraordinary ability. Martha Jones, a would be medical doctor taken for a quick trip with the doctor in gratitude for saving his life. However, the one thank-you trip extends further and further, until Martha accompanies him for an entire series. Donna Noble, another person with a lesser role in life becomes the doctors companion for an episode,  and is generally known for her no-nonsense attitude with the doctor.

     Until I actually catch up with this new series, I can't tell you anything about Series 5, and the Eleventh Doctor and his new companion. So stay tuned unless I find something a little more current and on the edge-ish.

  

    - "He's like fire, and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm at the heart of a sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe." Doctor Who Series 3, The Family of Blood

-RETROTECH