Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight
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.netwrote: 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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
Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight
Pardon me. Sent too soon. I do expect a freakout on Eleven's part, at the thought that there's only one spare left in the boot, so to speak. During Tom Baker's run as the Fourth Doctor, there was a story, The Mysterious Planet under the Trial of a Time Lord mega-arc) which introduced a character called The Valeyard. The Valeyard turned out to be an entity created between the Doctor's twelfth and final incarnations, perhaps the essence of the Doctor's dark side from that time. I think that that may come into play as well. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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 * http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k *http
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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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:09:43 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight Serious
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Between the twelfth and final incarnations? What's the final incarnation? There can't be a number thirteen, right? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:16:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight Pardon me. Sent too soon. I do expect a freakout on Eleven's part, at the thought that there's only one spare left in the boot, so to speak. During Tom Baker's run as the Fourth Doctor, there was a story, The Mysterious Planet under the Trial of a Time Lord mega-arc) which introduced a character called The Valeyard. The Valeyard turned out to be an entity created between the Doctor's twelfth and final incarnations, perhaps the essence of the Doctor's dark side from that time. I think that that may come into play as well. 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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
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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.netwrote: 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:09:43 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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.netwrote: 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight My bad. Wasn't The End of Time that aired, but another favorite, Silence
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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'... - Original Message - 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:09:43 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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
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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.netwrote: 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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 * http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k *http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k 349.gif
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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?- Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" martinbaxt...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Samurai" on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" martinbaxt...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Samurai" on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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
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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.netwrote: 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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.netwrote: 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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 * http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k *http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k
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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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:30:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:54:35 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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
[scifinoir2] Samurai on History Channel Tonight
Premieres at 8 pm EST tonight... * 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
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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.netwrote: Premieres at 8 pm EST tonight... * 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 * http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k *http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k 33A.gif
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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.- Original Message -From: "Martin Baxter" martinbaxt...@gmail.comTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 3:43:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada EasternSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Samurai" on History Channel Tonight 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... * 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
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Thanks for the headsup! On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Premieres at 8 pm EST tonight... * 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 * http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k *http://primetimetv.suite101.com/article.cfm/samurai-on-history-channel#ixzz0iMIpNA1k -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
