London Film & Comic Con 2011

This was taken at my first London Film & Comic Con on Saturday 9th July 2011. This was also the year that I began posing with actors and actresses at Milton Keynes' Collectormania, which I frequented. I was blessed to have a ticket numbered in the 1-400 range, which meant that although I had to queue for a while, I got to pose with Karen Gillan - aka Amy Pond in "Doctor Who" - in the first of her two photo sessions.





Honorable mention should also go to Louise Jameson - aka Leela, also of Doctor Who fame. I had quite narrowly missed her photosession after getting a ticket (delayed train, long-but-fairly-speedy-queue to the con, wrong queue for photoshoot tickets) but I was told she might to some pick-ups later. After repeated returns (I had been told to ask) to the location of the shoot, the team managed to arrange her return and it turns out I was the only one. It was taken straight after Walter Koenig (Chekov in Star Trek) and managed to exchange more words than the usual shoots I attended.

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned teaser

Just seen this a few minutes a go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec8kG0gti9Y

Been quite looking forward to the Christmas special, but surprised to find out that this Titanic is a spaceship.

Futurama has done this before and I read that Douglas Adams (creator of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has done it before then).

Despite that, the ship still looks good (like something out of Star Trek.

But with this, and Torchwood getting castrated, AND the return of Billie Piper next year as Rose Tyler, it seems the new Doctor Who may be going down hill a bit.

The Family of Blood

Watched "Part Two" of the latest new Doctor Who adventure that began with Human Nature. This is perhaps one of the best new stories so far and perhaps an all-time classic. Performances were excellent and the ending was especially rather moving.

In last week's Doctor Who: Confidential writer Paul Cornell compared the story to past ones such as Superman II (in which the Man of Steel gives up his powers to be with Lois Lane) and the story of Christ. As in THE story? He could be referring to how Jesus as the Son of God gave up his place in Heaven to come and live on Earth as a human being (albeit with his divinity).

But watching this episode, I was reminded of the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ in which Jesus is tempted (in a vision by Satan) to be completely human and live a normal life with marriage and children. I refer to the scene in the episode where "John Smith" and matron Joan envision a possible marriage, children, and John dying an old man. All this takes place in "The Last Temptation". But in both cases, the characters give up this possibility to face their destiny as saviours - Christ dies on the cross as a sacrifice; John Smith becomes the Doctor (again).