Farewell, Doctor

Sad news.

David Tennant has announced that he won't be back as the Doctor when Doctor Who returns in 2010 (though he will return for the four specials scheduled to run through next year). I'm sorry to hear it as Tennant has become my favorite incarnation of the Doctor, and I'll miss him terrible when he leaves. Still, I see his point, better to go out on a high note that wait for everyone to get sick of you. He's right about something else, one of the most fun times to be a Doctor Who fan is when you know a new Doctor is coming. Let the speculation on the eleventh Doctor begin. One recent rumor involved an actor named Patterson Joseph, that's him below:



I've only seen him in a couple of things, so I can't speak to how good he'd be in the role, but I like the idea that the producers might be willing to go with a non-white Doctor. I'm sure it would be controversial, but really, the Doctor changes age, height, weight, eye and hair color, and personality with each regeneration, is skin color really that big of a deal?

At any rate, I look forward to Tennant's final four adventures as the Doctor and look forward to seeing what comes next for him and for Doctor Who.

The Links

I usually don't do the link collection thing, but I'm a little bored. So, without further ado: Things of interest I've stumbled upon around the net.

-A Matter of Opinion, by John Ostrander: I already loved John Ostrander for his comics work (Suicide Squad most of all), but I love him even more now that he's managed to relate the Doctor Who season finale to political punditry.

-Harry Knowles' review of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Okay, guess I definitely will be skipping it then.

-NBC's Latest Olympic-themed Office Promo: Murder checkers indeed.

-National Geographic's Map of the day for last Tuesday? The Land of OZ

Spoilers

Last Friday's Doctor Who episode referenced the idea of "spoilers" a few times and it got me to thinking about them both in terms of fiction and in life.

When it comes to big, highly anticipated movies, popular TV shows, or books spoilers are frequently everywhere. Personally I tend to think most art is better if you go into it clean, but I still sometimes can't help myself from clicking that link somewhere on the web that's going to tell me what happens at the end of the movie. Most of the time it doesn't really matter, in most movies or TV shows, the trip is as important as the destination, so even if you know where the story ends you can still get some enjoyment from it.

But what if you could have spoilers for real life? If you could look into the future and see if that new job is going to work out or how other life decisions turn out. One could conceivably live a life without mistakes. My question is, would that be a good thing? I tend to think not. The risk of things going disastrously wrong is part of what makes life exciting. That said, if I had access to these life spoilers, could I resist them any better than I can resist finding out what's going to happen in "The Dark Knight"? Probably not.

Speaking of spoilers, I love this shirt.

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