Well, I guess that would explain why so many British and Australian actors
flock to the US--where they're in high demand. Still, i thought stage and the
small screen was kinder to them than here in America. The times they are
a-changin'...
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From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:44:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Samurai" on History Channel Tonight
Keith, I would've thought that about British actors as well, but Robert
Carlyle's interview just before SG:U began, in which he said that he was done
with British fillmaking, sounded a note for me that struck odd, until I got a
little more insight into just how H'Wood-like the UK has become in film and TV
production. There, like here, it's the low-budget stuff that still showcases
the best performances and stories.
As for the external TARDIS redesign, don't count on it. They tried it briefly
during the -- Seventh Doctor's run, if memory serves, with a faulty chaemeleon
circuit that might make the TARDIS materialize as a hat stand in the middle of
Trafalgar.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
wrote:
I still wish Eccleston had stayed for at least three or four years. I like
Tenant, but in many ways I like Eccleston better. And nowadays, being in scifi
isn't as much of a stranglehold as it was back in the Star Trek or Buck Rogers
days. Many scifi actors get gigs doing get dramatic or comedic work on good TV
shows (Shatner on Boston Legal, Jeri Ryan on ....everything). Scott Bakula did
"Quantum Leap" and "Enterprise", yet has done movies ("The Informant!" with
Matt Damon) as well as a series, "Men of a Certain Age", on TNT. And I'd think
especially for British actors, their skills would be so in demand that playing
in scifi for a while wouldn't hurt at all.
So...is the Tardis redesign internal only, or will they actually get rid of the
exterior police box as an anachronism?
In a way, the whole conversation about the police box not working is off base,
because, throughout most of his journeys in time and space, it'd stand out. So,
replacing it with any other static object would still result in it being an
oddity in, say, the 1500's or on another planet. the only thing I can see is if
they restore it's true ability to camouflage itself to reflect any object
appropos to the place and the time the Doctor is currently visiting.
Maybe they can restore the police box when he's actually moving through time
and space, perhaps, say that it's somehow the default template, and the Tardis
has to return to the box when using power to travel?
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Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:09:43 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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To some degree, all the previous Doctors have been loathe to depart, but many
realized that they had to let go and move on. I understand that Eccleston's
leaving was especially mixed, because he did so based on waking up one morning,
while he still had the job, and realizing that he was *always* going to be
thought of as the Doctor, no matter what he did, and was afraid of the
typecasting. He later learned that such isn't really true, per se. Previous
actors have gone on to a measure of success, especially Tom Baker as the
narrator in the series "Little Britain".
And I was half-expecting a TARDIS redesign. When the new series began, a lot of
old-school DW fans (myself included, I freely admit) weren't fans of the TARDIS
layout.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
wrote:
Wow! The David Tenant "death" was very poignant, as that Doctor didn't want to
go. (And that's a clever angle seeing as the actor himself was ready to go).
Have other Doctors been so upset at leaving? Eccleston's Doctor was very sad,
but resigned. If that's the case, I wonder how they'll handle Smith's demise
when his time comes? Will he freak out knowing only one incarnation is left?
By the way, i read that Tenant's rather energetic reincarnation cycle, in which
much of the Tardis' insides were destroyed, was done so the show runners could
redesign and update the look of the Tardis.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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This'll be the Eleventh, and there's a built-in limit of twelve per batch. The
Time Lords can grant a new set to a TIme Lord, but, after chucking the guys who
*own* regenerations into the Void, he isn't likely to be on the list.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
wrote:
The aliens from "Blink" will be revisited with the new Doctor, I read. By the
way, is this new Doctor the eleventh or twelfth Doctor? Isn't there supposed to
be a built-in reincarnation limit?
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Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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My bad. Wasn't "The End of Time" that aired, but another favorite, "Silence in
the Library/Forest of the Dead", another one with a ramped-up scare factor
(made me pay attention to shadows a bit more afterward, just as "Blink" did it
for statues). And... what can I say? I'm a Whovian.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
wrote:
Forgot about "Dr. Who", but isn't that the end of Tenant's tenure? I've already
seen that. I'm sure "Samura" will be rerun several times over the next few
days.
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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Serious crisis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is up against "The End of Time". What's a Raging Whovian to
do???????????????????
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net >
wrote:
Premieres at 8 pm EST tonight...
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http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel
Mark Dacascos is a master of martial arts. He is also the Chairman on Iron Chef
of America and appeared on Dancing with the Stars . He proudly proclaims he is
one-quarter Japanese, and both his parents are martial arts instructors.
Samurai culture has always interested him. “They were always calm and relaxed
right before they drew their swords and fought,” he stated. The Samurai
Samurai on History Channel is a two-hour film which documents Dacascos’ journey
to Japan to retrace the footsteps of the most famous samurai of all, Miyamoto
Musashi. Originally the samurai’s job was to serve the emperor, much the same
way the legendary Knights of the Round Table were meant to serve King Arthur.
The life of the Samurai changed when the country was in transition from one
Shogun to another.
Musashi was born in 1584. Today he is the prime example in Japan of how to live
and work. His philosophies that he wrote down in his final years of life in his
book The Book of Five Rings , is what guides many Japanese businesses today. It
is a guide to enlightenment.
Samurai were also the inspiration for the Kamikaze pilots during World War II.
“Being a samurai means being a killing machine,” and the WWII pilots took this
to heart when they intentionally crashed their planes into boats in order to
kill their enemy.
Read more at Suite101: Samurai on History Channel: Tracing the Roots of the
Famous Warriors
http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k
