Now don’t get worried, this is only for improvements, in fact, it’s already been quite helpful. I wouldn’t blame you if you’re wondering what ‘It’ is, given the complete lack of information! The ‘It’ in question is not in fact a disembodied walking hand, it’s the fact that I’ve registered a domain. That’s right, Who Is The Man can now be found at www.whoisthemanpodcast.com, there’s no .Wordpress.com needed.
This blog will stay up, but the main activity will happen at the new website. Everything will be just like normal (well, as close to normal as I can get), just somewhere else.
So, on Saturday I was lucky enough to go down to Melbourne to see the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular! You may have already seen/heard my podcast episode about it, but here are some videos, more thoughts and some pictures.
To start off with, this was my first Doctor Who event (apart the event I make watching every episode as it airs for the first time – my inner 5 year old always comes out) and it was truly fantastic! The atmosphere in and around the building was full of excitement, much Who knowledge – and challenges/quizzes of said knowledge that I overheard, sonic screwdrivers buzzing, and a lot of excited chatter! And not just from me. I guess it was a bit of a preview of what a convention is like (oh, how I would love to go to a convention!) with many people with a deep ingrained love for the same thing, coming together to celebrate it.
So, to start off with, there were cosplayers. There were many cosplayers! We had a Tenth Doctor (see further down the post for a picture of him and myself), several 11 Doctor’s – me included, quite a few Amy’s, a lot of Rivers (that just sounds weird… “Welcome to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, mind your step, we’ve got River’s running. Running around that is!”), a Liz Ten/10, a Star Trek Captain (he got a lot of attention), and even a Sherlock Holmes! Oh, and this little guy:
Adorable! This little fella was running around the room, pointing at interesting things, and waving at people.
Up next we have the excellent Tenth Doctor cosplayer I mentioned before:
Sadly we didn’t get his converse trainers in shot, but they did complete the costume.
Now, the show. Mark Sheppard (Canton Delawar The Third in Doctor Who, Badger in Firefly – not that I have to tell you) hosted the show, and did a fantastic job doing so. He started off by telling us who his Doctor was (Jon Pertwee if you weren’t aware), then he wound us up by saying Murray Gold was among us, and we all cheered and got very (very, VERY! In my case) excited!
Eventually there guys and gals turned up!
Eventually, at the end of the show, Murray Gold himself went up on stage and played these two pieces!
While ABC2 is showing all 6 seasons of New Who they also have the episodes on iView, for those of us who don’t have the DVDs to enjoy them again (well, for a bit).
They have the 2010 Christmas Special – The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe – up there for your view pleasure (depending on your thoughts): http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/view/873253
“Fantastic!” Doctor Who is back for Aussie viewers! Every Monday to Friday at 7:30 pm starting tonight (as I type) they’re showing all of New Who from the start. Now, if you have Twitter and can use it while you’re watching, tweet your opinions to the show; @WhoITMPodcast or use the hash-tag #WhoIsTheMan, or use the name of the episode as a hash-tag, and I’ll read ’em out!
So, tomorrow night use #TheEndOfTheWorld and #WhoIsTheMan as the Hash-tag so I can find them easily and I’ll read them out, I’ll make a collection each week of tweets about each episode have them by the end of the week on the podcast.
In this episode myself and a special guest, Robert ‘Bob’ Learmont from The Flashing Blade Podcast, chat about the RTD era. It was supposed to be a comparison of the RTD and Steven Moffat eras but I lost the second part though…oops…sorry!
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Also, Happy Birthday Doctor Who! And a very big thanks and much respect to Verity Lambert and Sydney Newman!
Hello all, here is my chat with Adam J Purcell form The Staggering Stories Podcast, which you can find at: http://www.staggeringstories.net/index2.html. In this episode we talk about Doctor Who season 6 part 1, A Good Man Goes To War, Murray Gold’s bloody amazing-show-making-magic music, among other things.
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Here is my late (as always!) latest episode., I hope you enjoy.
Next time I will review the brilliant A Good Man Goes To War, and hopfully Adam J Purcell from The Staggering Stoires will guest on the show and help me review it and do a round up of this first part of the season. Send your thoughts on A Good Man Goes To War and this season all round to rhys@ecoman.com.au, or the Facebook group.
Hello all here is episode 19! Sorry for the delay, I’ve been busy. In this episode I give you my hopes, fears, and preditions, I hope you enjoy! Please send in feedback to whoitm@gmail.com, whoitm@hotmail.com or to the Facebook group.
P.S sorry for the light editing job… I’m tired and editing is boring and hard!
Hello all, it seems I’ve used up all the upload space on LibSyn with the probably overly long commentary for Air, so there will be a delay on the next few episodes. But to make up for that there will a be a few written things, on here and on my personal blog http://rhysparton.wordpress.com/. But until then you can still send feedback, yes I said FEEDBACK (Hint hint!) to the show addresses: whoitm@hotmail.com, whoitm@gmail.com, to the Facebook group or here.
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