Saturday, January 2, 2016

TVXOHOF - A LOOK BACK AT 2015





2015 is over and so ends the "British Invasion" theme for last year's inductions into the Television Crossover Hall Of Fame.  Every month we inducted a British TV character or member of the League of Themselves into the Hall, with so many left over that could have been considered.  Perhaps we might do it again, should a special occasion in the timeline of the real world gives us a good reason.

But they weren't the only new members for 2015.  We had several tributes added, mostly in memory of actors who had passed away - Leonard Nimoy and Dick Van Patten as themselves and Al Floss in remembrance of Alex Rocco, for example - or in celebration of milestone birthdays - Bette Midler at 70, Robert Conrad at 80, and Old Blue Eyes on what would have been his 100th.

So here is a rundown of the newest members of the TVXOHOF, Class of 2015......

THE BRITISH INVASION
JANUARY - Alf Garnett
FEBRUARY - Dr. Martha Jones
MARCH - Det. George Bulman
APRIL - Wilburforce Humphries
MAY - Agent Peggy Carter
JUNE - DSI Charlie Barlow & DS John Watt
BIRTHDAY HONORS - The Constable (Frank Jarvis)
JULY - Harry Palmer
AUGUST - Phileas Fogg
SEPTEMBER - Sidney Newman
OCTOBER - Mr. Stabs
NOVEMBER - Princess Diana
DECEMBER - John "Steed" (Sir John Raleigh)
CHRISTMAS - Ebenezer Scrooge
TRIBUTES - Robert Conrad
      Leonard Nimoy
      Dick Van Patten
      Al Floss
      Frank Gifford Yogi Berra
      Bette Midler
      Frank Sinatra

Friday, January 1, 2016

THE WHO'S ON FIRST BLOGATHON FINALE


Well, that's it for another year's "Who's On First?" blogAthon.  I hope you enjoyed it.

I'll leave you with this link to someone's idea of the perfect ending to 'Doctor Who'.  I'll leave it to you to decide if it could work......

THE PERFECT ENDING FOR 'DOCTOR WHO'?

BCnU!

THE RETURN OF MONDAS


I wrote a very extensive piece about the lost planet of Mondas back in 2009, using only the 'Doctor Who' story "The Tenth Planet" for the basic information... information... information.

Here is all the pertinent information from the TARDIS Data Core Wiki, minus my own musings:

Mondas was the twin planet of Earth and original homeworld of the Cybermen. In ancient times, it was dislodged from its old position out into space when the Moon was formed.
 
Originally, Earth and Mondas occupied the same orbit in the solar system. It was stated that "Mondas" was another name for Earth in one of the ancient languages.
 
Mondas left that orbit and drifted on a journey to "the edge of space", (TV: The Tenth Planet) caused by the sudden arrival of a moon between Earth and Mondas. This upset the gravitational equilibrium of Mondas, causing it to escape its orbit.
Their only recourse now was to use Mondas' last remaining energy to return to the Earth's orbit and plunder her energy. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

In December 1986, the Cybermen invaded Antarctica while Mondas drew closer, draining Earth's energy to replace and supplement its own. However, the energy absorbed was too much, and Mondas disintegrated. The destruction of Mondas destroyed all of the Cybermen on Mondas and also killed all of the Cybermen on Earth, who were dependent upon Mondas for energy. As the planet plundered Earth's energy, the First Doctor's life-force was caught up in the maelstrom, triggering his regeneration into his second incarnation. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

Those who consider the audio dramas, the prose stories and the comics to be canon will notice that I didn't accept any of their additions to the Mondas mythos.  I can only use what is played out on our TV screens.  After that I can apply my Toobworld Dynamic logic to smooth out any discrepancies that might arise.
 
After all, Toobworld is my sandbox........
 



So, near the end of November, but probably early December, I found this image on Facebook.  For me, it evoked my claim that Mondas was the planet where one would find the continent of Westeros from 'Game Of Thrones'.  I can't work George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy into the back history of Earth Prime-Time, but it works so well as being part of Mondas.  And other TV shows have had episodes which help buttress that claim.
 
So I can see this being a picture of the Cyber-Controller pondering the return of Mondas to the Sol System in 1986.....
 
BCnU!
 

 

TIME LORD JOHN MARBURY




The late Roger Rees would have made for an excellent Doctor, even if the tendency was to cast him as a villain.  

It never happened, but I could always employ a bit o' wish-craft and make the claim that he did play the Doctor in another TV dimension.

So why not claim that Lord John Marbury in the 'West Wing' dimension was actually the Doctor?  Somehow President Bartlet knew who he really was, perhaps based on Marbury's experiences in dealing with the India and Pakistan disputes.  (There may have been a Vespiform involved in that as well.....)

BCnU!


WHO VIDEO - THE MINIONS HAVE THE PHONE BOX


I haven't watched this.  I hate Minions....



DAVID TENNANT & MATT SMITH - "THE BURNING QUESTIONS"




DOUBLE VISION - THE GREAT INTELLIGENCE VISITED DOWNTON ABBEY?


Back in February, I posted a tribute to the dogs of 'Downton Abbey' - mostly about Isis, but also her (possible) father, Pharaoh. And in it, I suggested that Pharaoh - of a breed that wouldn't exist for another forty years at least - had been a gift to the family from the Time Lord known as the Doctor. I further suggested that the Doctor made the gift as a thank you to the previous Lord Grantham, the late husband of the Dowager Countess Violet. I thought perhaps the Doctor owed Lord Grantham for his help in dealing with a crisis that struck that area of Yorkshire in the late 1890s.

And I think that crisis was the Doctor's next encounter with the Great Intelligence.


Why do I think this? Because I think the Great Intelligence sought revenge against the Crawley family in 1924.


That was the year in which supposed art historian Simon Bricker visited Downton Abbey under the pretense of studying the Della Francesca painting in the Crawley family collection. Bricker looked exactly like Dr. Walter Simeon who had been working with the Great Intelligence up until 1892. At that point, Dr. Simeon died and the Great Intelligence took over his human acolyte's physical appearance.


I think this is who showed up at the Abbey: the Great Intelligence going by the name of Simon Bricker instead of Walter Simeon. But his powers must have been greatly diminished since he was "easily" bested by Robert Crawley who nearly throttled him for trying to initiate carnal relations with Lady Cora, Lord Grantham's wife.

(A side note: Another alien from the expanded 'Doctor Who' universe also copied her human form from someone from the Crawley family - Ms. Wormwood took on the appearance of Lady Rosamund Painswick, Lord Grantham's sister.....)



BCnU!

THE DOCTOR & THE KING OF HEARTS


There is a fantastic website called Recycled Movie Costumes which tracks the many uses for costumes in a variety of movie and TV show productions.

They also have a Tumblr account where they recently (by which I mean January, 2015) posted these two photos:


(If you want to read their story behind the re-use of the costume, then click HERE.)

But as you’ve probably figured out, that simply wasn’t good enough for the Toobworld Dynamic. Within the “reality” of Earth Prime-Time where did the Doctor get that King of Hearts costume?

From the same place Dennis Price did when he appeared in that 1972 movie - from the “Alice In Wonderland” costume warehouse.

I’ve never gone into detail about the status of “Alice In Wonderland” in the Toobworld Dynamic, but these are the basics: Lewis Carroll, under his real name of Reverend Dodgson, was part of an expedition to the dimension of “Wonderland”. But he was the only one to make it back alive. One of those left behind was a young woman named Alice who was driven insane by her experience.



“Wonderland” was a hellish place, but Dodgson as Lewis Carroll rewrote the experience as an allegory of mathematical logic. Young girls who read the book were so engrossed in the fictional story that they would dream of Wonderland, with themselves as Carroll’s sanitized version of Alice. This was especially true of girls who already were named Alice.

Alice would return to Earth Prime-Time in the 21st Century through a mirror transformed into a Warehouse artifact. And she was pure evil!

But the 1972 movie is just that, as far as the Television Universe is concerned - a movie. And for some reason, the Doctor in one of his previous three incarnations had reasons to visit that movie set where his sticky fingers helped himself to the costume.

I’m thinking it had to be Jon Pertwee’s incarnation as the “Third Doctor”. Trapped on Earth Prime-Time, I think he did a lot of Terran-bound traveling around the globe between the episodes. If my suggestion that he visited Gotham City and helped himself to the Riddler’s wardrobe is accepted, then it’s no big deal for him to have visited the movie set located in the United Kingdom where he was already based with UNIT.

But why should he have visited the “Alice In Wonderland” movie set? O’Bviously the Doctor and his Companion* were there to prevent yet another incursion of Earth by yet another hostile alien.

It may have been the Celestial Toymaker, rumored to be a fellow Time Lord from Gallifrey. He had used someone named Henry in the guise of the King of Hearts as one of his pawns when running the Doctor’s Companions Steven and Dodo through a maze of deadly traps. The Toymaker may have been fond of the imagery for the living playing cards.

Having already faced the Toymaker in his First Incarnation, the Doctor might have assumed he had come to Earth Prime-Time to once again engage in a battle of wits with the rival Time Lord. But then I looked through the “Dramatis Personae” for that 1972 movie and found an actor who would have made a great connection between the production of that film and the “reality” of ‘Doctor Who’.

I don’t often delve into actual fanfic - my Toobworld theories are about as far as I take it. My writing style lacks the creative spark to make it come alive, although I can come up with some imaginative plot details. However, I may try my hand at this idea because it’s just too good…

As I’ve stated above, I think the Third Incarnation of the Doctor had gone to Gotham City and teamed up with Batman in an adventure unseen on TV for either character. I also figured that the Riddler had to be involved and this is how the Doctor got hold of the Riddler’s wardrobe, which would be worn by later incarnations with their question mark motifs on the collars and what have you. (It would come into its full glory with the Seventh Incarnation, what with that question mark-festooned sweater and umbrella with the question mark handle.)

I still think it would be the Riddler as the instigator of the crime and it would have a Wonderland theme kicked off with the Riddler’s use of the classic Lewis Carroll riddle: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” But the Quizmaster of Crime would be leading a team of super-villains, just as he had been teamed up with the Joker, the Penguin, and Catwoman a few years earlier.

In this new team, centered around the Wonderland theme, would be the Mad Hatter,
Egghead, and Marsha, Queen of Diamonds. (They would have henchmen with names like Dormouse, Mock Turtle, and Cheshire Cat.) Somehow their shenanigans caused a dimensional rift that nearly loosed the horrors of the true Wonderland upon the Earth. But with the help of the Doctor, the Dynamic Duo got them all locked up, either in Gotham Penitentiary or Arkham Asylum.

Jumping forward a year, the Doctor and Liz Shaw receive a strange invitation to visit the set of “Alice In Wonderland”, where the Doctor senses the presence of another… as if he is not the only Time Lord in the area. There is something eerily familiar about the sensation, but he can’t quite put his finger on it…….

Soon they find themselves under attack by a conspiracy of strange aliens. These extraterrestrials seem to be inspired by Lewis Carroll’s masterpiece - an invisible being whose smiling mouth is the only thing that can be seen; a small pig-like alien dressed as a baby; two Sontaran clones dressed as Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum; and a remarkable caterpillar said to be unknown to science……..


At first the Doctor is reminded of the Wonderland Crew he faced earlier with Batman & Robin, but the involvement of so many aliens seems beyond their reach. It was when actor Dennis Price who played the King Of Hearts was mesmerized and forced to attack the Doctor that the Time Lord remembered the Toymaker.

It would be Liz Shaw that points out that whenever they were attacked, it was the actor playing Lewis Carroll himself - the man who dreamed up this bizarre world - who always seemed to be nearby. They sought out the dressing trailer for the actor in order to question him and there they found the REAL Michael Jayston, drugged and bound in his closet.


Finally cornered, the ersatz Jayston revealed himself to be a Time Lord known as the Valeyard.  But in this incarnation, the Doctor had no memory of him. It would be several more incarnations before their paths would cross for the “first” time at the Doctor’s trial on Gallifrey. The Valeyard escaped and as thanks for saving the movie’s production, the Doctor is given one of Dennis Price’s costumes for the King of Hearts as a parting gift. This is one of the costumes that the Fourth Incarnation would try on when looking for his signature outfit.

What say you?

BCnU!
  • In this case, because it should be the Third Incarnation, I’m going to say the Companion was Liz Shaw, despite my love for Sarah Jane Smith.


WELCOME TO NEVERWAS


Here are the credits for the televersion of  'Doctor Who' - in another dimension......


Those would have been the opening credits for the 1936 - 1957 edition of the series.  Here are the credits for an earlier version, circa 1899:


These videos were created by "Nereusmedia".

A TARDIS IN THE LIBRARY


In the second season finale of 'The Librarians', Finn Carson took the team to a store room they had never seen before - the "Time Machine Room".  Here they kept various time machines confiscated in order to preserve the time-line as best they could.  

Among the items under wraps were the DeLorean and the TARDIS!


Any number of splainins could be conjured for why and how the Library managed to get hold of the DeLorean away from Doc Brown.  But how could the TARDIS have been taken away from the Doctor?  Even more so, why wouldn't the "Oncoming Storm" have made every effort to get "her" back?

Here's my theory:


It was a TARDIS Type 40, just like the Doctor's, and it was stuck in the form of the English police box just like the Doctor's.  But it wasn't the Doctor's big blue box....  It belonged to the Master.

In the 1996 TV movie, the Master had been  captured by the Daleks, brought back to Skaro and put on "trial".  It was a foregone conclusion that he would be found guilty and executed.  The Doctor went to the Dalek homeworld and retrieved the Master's ashes to bring back to Gallifrey, which was the impetus for the coming adventure that led to the incarnation of the Eighth Doctor.

But what happened to the Master's TARDIS?

I think the Daleks were able to capture him on Earth.  However, he had fore-warning of their plans - and an attack on his own TARDIS in a surprise ambush would have been a good clue.  

The TARDIS could have been too badly damaged to make an escape into the time-stream.  So, the Master tried to pull off a ploy that might have given the Daleks pause before continuing their attack - he used his ship's chameleon circuit to disguise his TARDIS one last time.  And he chose to make it look like the Doctor's own TARDIS, forever locked into the shape of a blue police box.

But it was a ruse that didn't work.  When the Master tried to slip away from the area in disguise, the Daleks were not fooled.  They grabbed him as he escaped and took him away quickly to Skaro, leaving that TARDIS behind.

And the Library's clipping book warning system alerted the Librarian at the time, Edward Wilde, and he and his Guardian were able to procure it for the Library's inventory.

Hey, it works for me!

The TARDIS is a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame with the following shows as the base for its inclusion:
  • 'Doctor Who'
  • 'Torchwood'
  • 'Chelmsford 123'
  • 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
  • 'Foyle's War' (theoretical)
And now I can add 'The Librarians' to "her" tally.... Even though it's the Master's TARDIS in this case.

BCnU!

SUPER SIX LIST - "THE HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG"


SUPER SIX LIST 
SIX O'BSERVATIONS ABOUT 
"THE HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG"


1)  According to her diary, River and the Doctor enjoyed a picnic in Asgard.
It would have to have been the Twelfth Doctor (Matt Smith) who accompanied River to the home of the Norse gods.  None of them would look like those to be found in Comic Book Toobworld.  I think it would be better to use the demi-gods like Thor from episodes of 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'.  Certainly don't want to see the Doctor dealing with the slovenly and obese Thor who met the Space Famiy Robinson on some distant planet.

2)  A night on Darillium lasts 24 years.  
So how large is that planet that it takes 48 years to make a rotation?  But this means that even though they shouldn't leave the planet, the Doctor and River could have plenty of adventures during that "night" on Darillium.  We've already seen the precedence for this with the book "Tales From Trenzalore", when the Doctor spent at least a thousand years protecting that planet from all of the outside invaders.

3)  Jim The Fish
When are we finally going to find out about Jim the Fish?  See?  Yet another story about River that could be told.  Except that it couldn't involve the Thirteenth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) since it appears she had that adventure with Matt Smith's Doctor.  (They tried to reconcile their timelines while visiting that cafe near Lake Silencio.

4)  Dr. Song once transported a clutch of dragon eggs.
It's my contention that she somehow traveled back in Time and visited the planet Mondas where dragons once flourished.  You see, it is the premise promoted by Toobworld Central that Mondas - Earth's twin planet at one time - was the planet on which the seven kingdoms of Westeros could be found (as seen in 'Game Of Thrones'.)

5)  Flemming & the staff of Harmony & Reception
He and his fellow staff workers looked to be ancestors of Chan Tho, or at least an off-shoot of the same species, the Malmooth.  But they did not practice the same speech patterns as Chan Tho did.  That might have been some kind of cultural or religious practice so deeply ingrained into adherents like Chan Tho that it was impossible to break free of the practice.  Flemming and the others of their particular Malmooth race might not have been practitioners.

6)  A movie was made about the crash of the Byzantium.
Who knows what form movies would take so far into the future?  Not many TV shows have characters in or from the 51st Century, so I don't know who might have been an actor/director/screenwriter from that era.

BCnU!

SHE'S GOT BETTE DAVIS' EYE-DRIVE


Earlier today I wrote about how the combined timeline as seen in "The Wedding Of River Song" was a fertile ground for fan fiction.

And here's another example for some "Equel" time.


I found this photo-shopped picture of Bette Davis on one of the Facebook pages for 'Doctor Who'.  She's sporting one of those eye-drives seen in "The Wedding Of River Song".

From the TARDIS Data Core wiki:
The Eye Drive was a device used by the Silents to allow selected individuals, such as Madame Kovarian, to remember the memory-proof Silents running the order. An Eye Drive looked like an eye patch and was worn over the eye. The device formed a neural link with the wearer's mind and continually reminded them of the existence of the Silents.

So in the combined timelines of this alternate Toobworld, where Winston Churchill was the Holy Roman Emperor and Meredith Vieira got to interview Charles Dickens, it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that Bette Davis was a member of the resistance, perhaps even the leader of it.  She was certainly bad-ass enough for the job.

She could show up in person in a fanfic story.  But should the series ever revisit that now-defunct timeline, they could use this picture and it would be a valid addition to the mythos.  It could be framed on the wall in resistance headquarters......

BCnU!

"DOCTOR WHO" AT THE 2015 TOOBITS AWARDS


This was the overall winner for the 2015 Toobits Winner for Best Speech:



Other winners from 'Doctor Who' were Best Alien Return (the Zygons), Best Alien Villain (Leandro - it was a weak category this year), Best Merchandise Tie-In ("sonic" sunglasses), Most Deserving To Become A Regular & Most Deserving To Get Their Own Spinoff (Ashildr/Lady Me), and Best Character Returns (Riggsy & Osgood).

GUITAR HERO: WHO'S NEXT?




This past season of 'Doctor Who' we saw the Doctor wail away on his electric guitar in several of the episodes.  From outside the reality of Toobworld, we know this wouldn't have happened if Peter Capaldi wasn't a proficient musician skilled in the instrument.  At one time he even had his own band... and Craig Ferguson was also a band-mate.

But was it Capaldi's incarnation of the Doctor who learned how to play the axe?  There was plenty of "time" between several episodes; they didn't just flow from one into the other.

However, I think it was an earlier incarnation who took the time in the TARDIS to pick up the skills, perhaps even calling on a few celebrated musicians for lessons.  Jimi Hendryx, for example?

I think the best candidate would be the "Ninth" incarnation (actually the Tenth due to the War Doctor).  I think he best had the personality to turn to music to help heal his psyche after the pain caused by the Time War.

And in one of those off-screen adventures, maybe the Ninth Doctor formed a band.  And who would be in that band?


Clara: 
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, last of the five good'uns, stoic philosopher.

Vastra: 
Superlative bass guitarist. The Doctor really knows how to put a band together.

And this would be the perfect story to bring super "Who" fan Craig Ferguson as the Doctor gets the band back together for an adventure.  Perhaps something involving an alien threat in 1970 that ended up killing Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin (who previously gave the Doctor the great-coat which he wore in his tenth incarnation.)


As for Craig Ferguson, he should be an alien member of the Doctor's band.  And for some reason, I'd like to think of him in the make-up of a Tivolian, as seen in "The God Complex" and "Under The Lake" & "Before The Flood".  Perhaps it would explain the Doctor's dismissive attitude towards the funeral director - a Tivolian would probably cave in rather than try to win a battle of the bands.

Just a suggestion, Fanficcers.


BCnU!




GRIMM FANFIC - WHO WOULD LIKE SOME TEA?


'GRIMM'
"WESEN NACHT"


MONROE:
The majority of street riots are instigated by wesen. It's not something we're proud of, and certainly not something the history books will tell you, but there it is. Here's a good example. Réveillon riots. Paris, 1789. 

ROSALEE:
That's a good one. Everyone thinks this started because one factory was unionized and the others weren't. But actually it was wesen factory owners going up against this guy, Réveillon, who was not wesen. 

MONROE:
Réveillon was Kehrseite, and they looked down on him. And here's the crazy irony, though. A lot of his workers were wesen, and they were loyal to him because he, you know, treated them well. 

ROSALEE:
The wesen who worked for Réveillon were targeted and killed in these riots. 

MONROE:

Right, so on the surface, looked like a union problem, but the truth is, it was a wesen problem. And this isn't the only example. I mean, the Boxer Rebellion, Draft Riots during the Civil War. I mean, the freaking Boston Tea Party. 


For more information... information... information... about the riots in the Trueniverse, click here.

Since wesen were involved in the Boston Tea Party and the Boxer Rebellion, that would then create a vague connection for 'Grimm' to 'Doctor Who'......

From the TARDIS Data Core Wiki:

The Boston Tea Party was an event in which the Ninth Doctor once told Rose Tyler he had participated. 
(TV: The Unquiet Dead)

The Doctor:
I saw the fall of Troy. World War V. 

I pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party. 


Barbara Wright mentioned the Boston Tea Party in her attempt to confuse the Daleks. 
(TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Captain Jack Harkness was active in China during the rebellion, where he worked with explosives. 
(TV: 'Torchwood' - The Blood Line)

So there you have it, fanficcers.  If you were looking for that hook to bring the Doctor and the Grimm together in Portland, Oregon, perhaps Nick Burkhardt got a trip in the TARDIS back to December 16, 1977.  (But it would have to be the Doctor's Ninth [actually Tenth, because of the War Doctor] incarnation who teamed up with the detective....)


Fantastic!

O'BSERVATION:
Big thanks to Caeric ArcLight for the image of Nick with the Doctor!  I can't believe there weren't any on the internet already.  it seems like such a natural mash-up, even moreso than one with 'Supernatural'.......


A THEORY OF RELATEEVEETY WISH-CRAFT


As I watched "A Christmas Carol" on Christmas Eve, I got it into my head that in the long distant past of his family tree, Kazon Sardik could count Theodore J. Mooney among his ancestors. Probably outlandish, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked it.....



MORE MUSINGS ON MARCUS AURELIUS


In last year's "Who's On First" blogAthon, I wrote about Clara Oswald's fascination with Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

At the time, I thought it was too late for the series to go on such a journey via the TARDIS and now it officially has as the Doctor and Clara have parted ways.

But it's never too late in fan fiction!

At the end of the "Hell-Bent" episode, Clara and Ashildr/Me took off on their own adventures in Space and Time in a stolen TARDIS that is now stuck looking like a rock n roll cafe.  

I think it would be cool if they found themselves back in Rome after Marcus Aurelius became the Emperor in 161 BC.  I'm sure there must be some sort of trivial tidbit about his reign that could be the inspiration for one of their first escapades.


BCnU!


GRIMM FANFIC?


'GRIMM'
"WESEN NACHT"

MONROE:
The majority of street riots are instigated by wesen. It's not something we're proud of, and certainly not something the history books will tell you, but there it is. Here's a good example. Réveillon riots. Paris, 1789. 

ROSALEE:
That's a good one. Everyone thinks this started because one factory was unionized and the others weren't. But actually it was wesen factory owners going up against this guy, Réveillon, who was not wesen. 

MONROE:
Réveillon was Kehrseite, and they looked down on him. And here's the crazy irony, though. A lot of his workers were wesen, and they were loyal to him because he, you know, treated them well. 

ROSALEE:
The wesen who worked for Réveillon were targeted and killed in these riots. 

MONROE:
Right, so on the surface, looked like a union problem, but the truth is, it was a wesen problem. And this isn't the only example. I mean, the Boxer Rebellion, Draft Riots during the Civil War. I mean, the freaking Boston Tea Party. 

For more information... information... information... about the riots in the Trueniverse, click here.

Since wesen were involved in the Boston Tea Party and the Boxer Rebellion, that would then create a vague connection for 'Grimm' to 'Doctor Who'......

From the TARDIS Data Core Wiki:

The Boston Tea Party was an event in which the Ninth Doctor once told Rose Tyler he had participated. 
(TV: The Unquiet Dead)

Barbara Wright mentioned the Boston Tea Party in her attempt to confuse the Daleks. 
(TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

Captain Jack Harkness was active in China during the rebellion, where he worked with explosives. 
(TV: 'Torchwood' - The Blood Line)

So there you have it, fanficcers.  If you were looking for that hook to bring the Doctor and the Grimm together in Portland, Oregon, perhaps Nick Burkhardt got a trip in the TARDIS back to December 16, 1977.  (But it would have to be the Doctor's Ninth [actually Tenth, because of the War Doctor] incarnation who teamed up with the detective....)

Fantastic!


O'BSERVATIONS: RASSILON MATCH


So much happened in the season finale of 'Doctor Who' that will be the spark not only for further discussions but also for possible fanfic - the team-up of Clara and Ashildr/Me in their own stolen TARDIS, especially.  But for me, the fixation is on the return of Rassilon, once the supreme leader of Gallifrey....

From the TARDIS Data Core:


Rassilon was, alongside Omega and the Other, one of the founders of Time Lord civilisation and widely regarded as the single greatest figure of Gallifreyan history. He was generally considered the first Time Lord, though some believed that distinction belonged to his compatriot Omega. In his own time, Rassilon was chiefly an engineer and architect but once he had left his mark, most of Time Lord society hailed him as a hero. Other Time Lords contended that Rassilon was a corrupt megalomaniac who tried to murder his friend Omega and stole his invention to build Time Lord society. During the Last Great Time War, he returned to lead the Time Lords to battle theDaleks, and tried to find ways to break the Time lock and escape the war. After the Doctor saved Gallifrey, Rassilon tried to get information on the prophecy of the Hybrid out of the Doctor and execute him, but was overthrown when the military sided with the Doctor. Rassilon was banished from Gallifrey at the end of the universe as a result.


I think the Grand Moff has set up Rassilon to return yet again to the series, perhaps as a recurring villain to add to the Doctor's gallery of rogues.  The show can't keep returning to the Master/Missy as the only individual nemesis.  Rassilon would definitely have a score to settle with the Doctor after his banishment.


If he was free to come back, I think Donald Sumpter should get another shot at playing the former President.  Since Rassilon probably made sure he had quite the surplus of regenerations when the Time Lords brought him back to fight in the Time War, the role could be taken by just about any other actor.

Here's a Super Six List of actors who could be considered:

1) Hugh Bonneville
2) Owen Teale
3) Nicole Walker
4) Julian Rhind-Tutt
5)  Charles Dance
6) Helen Mirren

BCnU!


THE DOCTOR OF S.H.I.E.L.D.


I'm one of those televisiologists who think there is a version of the Doctor in most TV dimensions.  We know the Doctor exists in the Comic Book Universe, thanks to both Marvel and DC and perhaps a few other publishers as well.  So he should be in the televersion of that universe as well.  

And thanks to crossover comrade Lucas Garrett, this might be the way his latest incarnation plays out in Comic Book Toobworld......



My thanks to crossover comrade Lucas Garrett for the images.....

Geronimo!