Hey everyone, how's it going? I hope you all had a good weekend. I certainly did. I actually saw my grandparents for the first time since Christmas Day so that was nice. Today I'm here for a blog update for the month of August. So let's get right into it.
The first thing I would like to do is make an announcement. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to start reviewing Doctor Who. I have the first three stories of the Classic series as well as the first seven series of the modern era, with the accompanying Christmas Specials and I'll be getting the Peter Capaldi DVD set in the very near future. Which will take me up to the 2017 Christmas Special Twice Upon a Time which is where I first started watching the show as it aired instead of just on DVD or in reruns.
I've never been a huge Doctor Who fan. I didn't see a single episode until The Day of the Doctor which was the 50th Anniversary special that aired in 2013. I became aware of it when the series first came back in 2005, but I didn't really pay attention to it as nobody I knew watched it and I couldn't watch it in my bedroom like I could Star Trek and other shows. So as I said, starting with the 50th Anniversary special I saw a few episodes from Matt Smith's run on Space Channel back in 2016. I also saw half an episode from Peter Capaldi's run. But nothing really grabbed me about the show. Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoyed Doctor Who, but I didn't latch onto it the way I latched onto Star Trek and Star Wars when I was a kid in the '90s and shows like Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, and Mutant X as a teenager in the 2000s. Maybe because by the time I did see my first episode of Doctor Who I was more aware of just how popular the show was and it intimidated me. Especially since I have friends now who are huge fans of the show and they can be a little...pushy when it comes to Doctor Who. Naturally that made me resist it until Jodie Whittaker's first series, Series 11, started and I just jumped right in. Now I have the first seven series and the first three stories of the classic series on DVD though I stopped watching the most recent series, Series 12, as it aired, because it started off with alot of heavy continuity stuff that I didn't understand having not seen a whole lot of previous series.
The reason I decided to start reviewing Doctor Who is because I don't get to talk about TV very much on the blog. Unless it's a current show that I'm reviewing the season for as soon as it's finished airing. Even then I only do that if I know I have enough to talk about when the season is over. Like I knew I wasn't going to have much more to say about season 1 of Punky Brewster when that wrapped up that I hadn't already said when I reviewed the first two episodes when they premiered. Same goes with Monsters at Work when that finishes in a few weeks. But I really wanted to dive into a show the way I did with Community last year. And I figured Doctor Who would be the perfect show for that since it's geeky and a show I like but just haven't seen enough of yet.
I haven't quite decided how exactly I'm going to watch the show. Obviously on DVD, and one story per week for the Classic Who stories that I'll be reviewing, but once I get into New Who with Series 1, I'm not sure if I'm going to watch one episode a day, or binge however many episodes are on a disc in the DVD sets that I have until I get to the end of a series. We'll see what happens when the time comes. But for now, I will be reviewing Doctor Who on this blog starting tomorrow afternoon with the review of "An Unearthly Child" coming out sometime in the evening. So stay tuned for that.
As a result, once I get into the modern era, I'm going to be putting movie reviews on hold so that I can focus on watching Doctor Who as I have alot to go through. Don't worry though I have movie reviews coming up this week, next week and in two weeks. This week I'm going to be reviewing Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, next week I'll be reviewing Flight of the Navigator, and the week after I'll be reviewing Shazam!. So look out for those.
This week I'll be reviewing issues 7-12 of The Amazing Spider-Girl. I really enjoyed talking about the first story arc last week from issues 1-6 and I'm excited to be carrying on with that comic book series over the course of the next few weeks as I make my way through that series. After that I'll be diving into the Knightfall Saga, the epic Batman storyline that ran from 1993 until 1995. And yes, I'll be including Batman: Prodigal in that series of reviews as well.
So that's the plan for August, and I guess September, October, and possibly November depending on how long it takes me to watch Doctor Who. Oh and I'm not going to review novels anymore, so I can focus on movies, TV, and comics. I really want to get the blog back to it's geeky roots from when I originally started it on Wordpress back in January 2015. Which means getting back to talking about those three things in general as well as the franchises that I love like Star Trek, Star Wars, DC Comics (specifically Batman), Spider-Man, and Disney. Among others of course.
Alrighty that is going to be it for me for today. I'll be back tomorrow afternoon with my review of the first story of Doctor Who, "An Unearthly Child". So until then have a wonderful evening and I will talk to you all later. Take care.
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