We don’t get as much professional guerilla set reporting as we used to. There is something wonderful about getting that picture of the actors essentially in character. The crew may have hated it 10 years ago but our record of the era is so much bigger now because of it.
based on a concept i lobbed this morning - chiwetel ejiofor & john boyega as jeeves & wooster, and nichelle nichols as aunt agatha. additionally, but not pictured, richard ayoade as gussie fink-nottle, because obviously.
also @ universe thanks for dancing on the edge but i need way more fancy 30s stuff generally, those lightsabers aren’t doing the aesthetic any favours
H O L Y S H I T
OMGOMGOMG
I mean, I lost it at the first gif, and then lost it FOREVER at Nichelle Nichols.
And then I thought of John Boyega playing the banjo and/or trombone and then I lost it all over again.
And tripping over himself trying to get out of marriage proposals–
….OK BUT HEAR ME OUT: Freema Agyeman as Florence Craye.
Or a very inspiring way for a popular Black British actress many people look up to to reveal she cut off all her damaged, processed, hair (the part many of us fear the most) and decided to start her natural hair journey, at the age of 40 (yes y'all she’s 42. I don’t see it either).
But then again if you don’t get that, the post wasn’t for you anyway, so that’s fair. That’s fair.
Also, as I mentioned this post is two years old but things are going verywell
I know a lot of people don’t get it whenever they see posts about Black hair. It’s just wild to me when I remember there are people who’ve never had any significant thoughts or cultural concerns about their hair.
My hair doesn’t grow in the back of my head. I keep it shaved because it doesn’t grow, not to be on trend like some tend to think. My hair/scalp was damaged when I was 13 because an aunt put a strong perm in my head. For years I had sores on my scalp from chemical burns.
It’s a big deal. We’re in a beautiful era of Black women in all walks of life embracing their natural hair and it should be celebrated and encouraged.
Behind the scenes of The Lazarus Experiment (Part Seven)
Excerpts from The Fact or Fiction article in DWM 519
The starting-point for the sixth episode of the third season of the 21st century series was a two-word phrase given by showrunner Russell T. Davies to first-time Doctor Who writer Stephen Greenhorn: Mad Scientist. Over the course of several drafts, in which Greenhorn’s ‘Professor Anger’ became a ‘Professor Lazarus’, it mutated into a Marvel Comics-style ‘supervillain origin’ story: “This is unashamedly Dr Octopus,” Davies told those who gathered for the episode’s tone meeting in August 2006, “a mad scientist’s experiment gone wrong.”
Fittingly, then, the story went under the working title The Madness of Professor Lazarus - but the eventual title appears to acknowledge a debt to the original BBC sci-fi thriller, The Quatermass Experiment (1953), remounted in 2005 as a live BBC Four broadcast featuring both David Tennant and Lazarus actor Mark Gatiss among its cast. That original Experiment, of course, ended with its scientist hero confronting the hideously mutating remains of a once-proud man within the Gothic environs of a magnificent London church…
every day I think about martha jones and her family.
they went through something so god damn insane, just to have it technically never really happen (at least most of it)
I mean, what after that? It was 2008, society hadn’t deep dived into trauma recovery back then as much as we have now. It’s not like the family could go see a therapist; what would they say? “yeah we were imprisoned for 365 days by an alien prime minister”
They were left to recover entirely on their own
I think about Martha’s mom the most. she was so shattered, how did she come back from that? How did she stop flinching every time someone knocked on the door or rang the phone? She seemed the type I would expect to question everything - including existence. so did she sit and wonder every day why it had to happen to her? And did she ever recover? If I were her, I would’ve fallen so deep into that trauma, I wouldn’t have seen a way out.
In conclusion: Martha Jones and her family are so strong, they deserved better, and I can’t imagine how they survived the trauma of being on the valiant
Or a very inspiring way for a popular Black British actress many people look up to to reveal she cut off all her damaged, processed, hair (the part many of us fear the most) and decided to start her natural hair journey, at the age of 40 (yes y'all she’s 42. I don’t see it either).
But then again if you don’t get that, the post wasn’t for you anyway, so that’s fair. That’s fair.
Also, as I mentioned this post is two years old but things are going verywell
There is a rumor starting to go around the Doctor Who fandom and other sources that Freema Agyeman is joining Heroes Reborn. The Vox has contacted both NBC and the Heroes office, both of whom state that Ms. Agyeman is NOT joining Reborn. Whoever started that rumor mistook Judith Shekoni for Freema and didn’t bother fact checking. Please do not be taken in by this rumor, and if you have any Whovian friends, please let them know as well.
