Legend figures

Hello there

Just out and about I found a selection of transformers legend figures. After a few internal debates I decided to pick up Animated Bumblebee. As a fan of the original I thought a transformer the same size as the G-1 classic that sits on my Apple would be a idea. 

I'd heard a lot of good things about the Legend Figures and I have to say from this one alone I agree with every one of them. Cheap, fun and fantastic detail this little collection is going to grow!

Doctor Doctor

Ahh a review, or opinion. Who can tell these days?

So Doctor Who... One of the longest running shows in the world and the longest running Sci-Fi legacy. Why is this? Because of a very clever idea; Regeneration. 

When William Heartnell was left the part of Doctor Who was still at the first height of it's popularity. The BBC didn't want to lose the show and neither did the writers. They needed a way to keep going, but without the Doctor what were they going to do?

They had already established he was not human but a strange alien with hidden depths. They found the answer there with one word. Regeneration. Instead of writing a new character to fly the TARDIS they recreated the Doctor.

It was a fantastic idea and it lead to the most commonly asked question in Science Fiction.

No not who shot first han or Greedo. We all know Han shot first, the bounty hunter didn't even get a shot of. Question answered

It is of course a question that can't be answered so easily; Who is the best Doctor? Everyone has an opinion and they can differ wildly. But here's mine, the top ten at lest.

1. Second Doctor  (Patrick Troughton)
   
2. Tenth Doctor (David Tennent)
   
3. Fourth (Tom Baker)
   
4. Eighth (Paul McGann)
   
5. Third (Jon Pertwee)
   
6. First (William Heartnell)
   
7. Seventh (Sylvester McCoy)
   
8. Fifth (Peter Davison)
   
9. Nine (Christopher Eccleston)
   
10. Six (Colin Baker)

Sorry to say that Matt Smith hasn't made it. This isn't a case of "He's not Tennent" it so much more simple. We've seen him act now sure but we have no idea what he brings to the character. So until we do I can't say where he belongs in the list.

And that is an important point. This isn't the actors I'm judging, it's the character portrayal. Colin Baker is a fantastic actor and a great person. The writers just decided to go the wrong way with the Doctor in the Dark Days of John Nathan Turner (more on that in a future post). Turning the Doctor into a violent git and then giving Colin Baker some of the worst scripts ever written put him right at the bottom of the pack. It was a no win situation and Colin Baker gets it in the neck. 

The Eighth Doctor I love with a passion. His portrayal in the big finish audio plays are brilliant, even if the TV Movie was a complete flop.

It's the Second that gets over looked most often and is my out and out favourite almost because of it. He would be calm and collected when faced with an army of Cybermen and then panic spectacularly when he couldn't find his recorder. Unlike any of the others who you could predict the Second would pull a trick out of his sleeve or take a sudden turn from bumbling fool to ruthless champion.

I could try and explain more but it would just take far too long. Leave a comment if you want to argue any points I'll try to defend them.

Here's a Bio I did for the now Defunct Website Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts Hope you enjoy:-

"The Kaptin"
AKA Thomas Fishwick
Alias Hat-boy, The Mountain King


Somewhere between hope and despair for all geeks there is a cliff. A wall no man can pass. On the side of hope, geeks of all ages recoil from what they see beyond; a 5 foot nothing bloke. With a hat.
"Hello." I say back
That's me in South Park, to the left. You can wave if you want.
Like most of us here I'm a former media student looking for a paying job. Hopefully I'll find one that will fit in between all the other stuff I do. But I fear I might have to cut back on my Sci-Fi intake to only 150 hours a week. You name a main stream Sci-Fi and I'll prove how good I am.
Over the years I've dabbled in; Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf, Dr Who, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Farscape and Stargate SG1. Sober I could quote you my favourite lines from each in about a minute.
As you can guess this has the women clambering to get to me!
Luckily I have my music and comics to fall back on, there's nothing like Hard Rock/Heavy Metal while reading Alan Moore's Swamp Thing to relax you. I also like to think of myself as a troubled genius, I had deduced the existence of rice pudding and income tax before I had learned to walk. Unfortunately I promptly fell down the stairs, banged my head and forgot about it all.
As well as this website I write fan fiction crossover stories and make short films.
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"Hello, good evening and welcome" as I've always said, "What's the use in a good quotation if you can't steal it?" but if you don't recognise the quotes I'm using what are you doing here? You have a life! 

So a little bit of a welcome to something new from me. I don't like social networking sites, not least because no one bothers to talk to me on them and to be honest they scare me. So I thought I'd start a blog instead and see where it went.

But what am I going to do with it? I'm going to do what most people seem to do with Blogs. Use it to post my opinions as thinly disguised reviews of things I like or despise. So yay!

I'm also going to use it to repost some articles I did for a friends website once a long time ago, that he has since let go. I think they deserve another chance and I might even be kind enough to post his articles as well. If he asks nicely and buy's me a pint.

So then, as usual; opinions, reviews, rants, suggestions and ideas. should be fun. At least for me, you'll probably get bored and wander of to something interesting on t'internet. And go blind shortly after.

One thing I'm not going to do is use this place for my fanfiction, that has it's own home. If you're interested its over on fanfiction.net/~mountainking  If you didn't know about that go there and read it, it isn't hard to see how much that's improved over the years I've spent on it. Seriously, the early stuff has even worse grammar than this place.

Well that's it for the intro. See you later!

"Goodnight out there, whatever you are...!"