Doctor Who

I have tried to write a blog on Doctor who a few times but each time all I get is Doctor Who is awesome. It is! I figured though if I was going to take the time to post a blog I should have more than that.

Doctor Who is AWESOME…because…it is my ideal sci-fi TV show. It has EVERYTHING; time travel into the past and the future, travel to different planets and galaxies, evil aliens, good aliens, a perfect hero, and a lovable but rotating companion. There are more reasons, of course, but those are the reasons that attracted me to the show and got me to watch it. What has kept me watching has been the story.

I love time travel; if a show or movie has it I will watch it. It doesn’t guarantee that I will like it but going in it has points in its favor; however because I love time travel I have strict ideas on how it should work. I have had heated arguments with people over which should be the standard type of time travel (yes I am a geek). Doctor Who does it right, in my book. :-p There are basic rules and they are always followed. One episode doesn’t do it one way and another episode do it another way, I love consistency. Certain things can be changed and certain things can’t be, and the Doctor has to suffer with everyone else over those things.

The Doctor is a perfect hero because he makes the hard decisions and doesn’t like it. He almost always makes the right decision and the fact that he doesn’t always makes him perfect. He’s not too perfect which would make it boring to watch. It’s exciting because what if he’s not able to fix the problem and save the world? He loses people, the end is not always happy; but at least the galaxy has been saved.

Doctor Who’s companions play a big role in the TV show and they balance the Doctor out. They question his actions and keep him on his toes. He teaches them his ideals and they often remind him of them when he slips. The Doctor makes them better people and they are never the same after traveling with him. Plus a lot of the best episodes happen because he’s trying to show off his awesome Time Lordness.

Each season there is an over arching story that, while it’s not focused on in each episode, is slowly reveled until the last couple of episodes. There are no episodes that aren’t relevant, even if it seems that way. It’s always huge, as in either world ending or galaxy ending, and there are never easy solutions. That is what pushed this show to be my favorite. Each episode means something to the end and there are always little details that you miss that you get to go back and find.

The Maltese Falcon By: Dashiell Hammett

Well I finished reading the Maltese Falcon; it was certainly interesting, sometimes boring and a bit different than anything I’ve read so far. Sometimes it was confusing, not sure if it was the writing or the slang that was used that is out of date and had to go thru my old movie filter to decipher it. Sam Spade was definitely a womanizer. He had three women on him the entire book and was able to handle each the way they needed to be handled. He wasn’t all together attractive sounding being described as basically a “V” from the shape of his head to his eyebrows, but that worked for him. He was incredibly smart and had things figured out long before the writer gave you enough to figure it out yourself.

*SPOILER*

I like that the female ultimately ended up being the person that shot his partner. I say female because she ended up having three names and if you read the book you’ll know who I am talking about. What made me like it even more is that even though he hated his partner and might love her he still turned her in. I enjoyed the fact that he kept the police running and didn’t really help them since they seemed to want to frame him for being better at the job then they were.

I guess out of five stars I would give it three. It wasn’t gripping and like I said some bits were convoluted but it was something that was worth reading just to see what was “in” back in the 30s.

The Ravings of a Sick Mind

The Internet should not be accessible to sick people. I'm sick and I've thought of so many things to post or update on my facebook, but because of my extreme strength of will I've been able to stop myself. You see you don't need to over saturate the internet with yourself or people start taking you for granted.

Not all people can be counted to have my great strength though and they do post and I believe that power should be taken from them. Maybe someone can create a sensor that can tell when you have a fever and your internet connection immediately shuts down when this happens. No that won't work some people have abnormal temperatures and who knows what it is when they're sick.

Maybe every time you log onto the internet you have to prick your finger and your blood is tested to make sure you're not taking anything and if you test positive for drugs your internet privileges are taken away until you're clean. This not only gets rid of the sick people but the druggies as well. I view this as a win win.

Though it shouldn't work on youtube, because as we all know some of the best videos come from sick people or addicts.

My solution will also provide a problem in the future when all communication is done over the internet. What if someone has OD'd on something and they need to call 911 or whatever the number is in the future and they can't because they obviously test positive for drugs. I foresee bugs in this solution.

Oh well I don't have to fix them, I'll leave that to someone else. I'm sick I shouldn't have to come up with all the answers.

You know I feel as though I should really share my wonderfully creative thoughts with the whole world and post this on my blog. Someone needs to get started on this so they can stop those sick people out there from posting on the internet.