Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Who’
The ultimate binge…
YouTube user Omni Verse has put together ten minute packages of your favorite cult TV shows in an intense “videoggedon,” where all the episodes are played at the same time!
From Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, to Kolchak—The Night Stalker, Planet of the Apes and Doctor Who. This is like a ten-minute sugar rush of cult TV heaven!
For example:
Find them all at the always-illuminating Dangerous Minds.
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As we lean back, we might recall that on this date in 1989 ABC broadcast the last episode of Ryan’s Hope. Born in 1975, the show’s creators had taken the unusual step (for a soap opera) of setting the series in a real community, the Washington Heights neighborhood of Northern Manhattan. That, and the their forthright treatment of then-edgy issues– extramarital and premarital affairs, the attendant children out of wedlock, careerist women, the assertion of abortion rights, and the clash of generational values in the Ryan clan– quickly won it a loyal following. But as society caught up with Ryan’s Hope, the show’s edge dulled, ratings dropped, and it was brought to a close.
The Annals of Taxonomy: Getting into Alignment…
The Alice in Wonderland Alignment Chart
From Geekosystem, “The Ten Greatest Alignment Charts of All Time“:
… we can tell you definitively that alignment charts seem to be blowing up all over the place lately… For those not familiar with them, alignment charts draw from classic Dungeons and Dragons, breaking characters down by two axes: Law-Chaos (lawful, neutral and chaotic) and Good-Evil (good, evil, and neutral). An alignment chart in meme terms, then, is a 3×3 grid comprised of nine characters from a given movie, game, or other pop culture happening.
Like this:
The Presidential Alignment Chart
See them all– from The Big Lebowski and The Office to Technology Pioneers and Dr. Who— here.
As we consider our own places in the scheme of things, we might recall that it was on this date in 1907 that Pike Place Market, the longest continuously-running public farmers market in the US, opened in Seattle. It currently serves roughly 10 million visitors per year.
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