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First there were the endless posts about Comic-Con and all the cool stuff that hasn't happened yet. It was terribly tedious. And now it's Worldcon.
Experiencing Worldcon from the other side of the world, via the medium of blogs, is deadly dull. It goes like this:
Experiencing Worldcon from the other side of the world, via the medium of blogs, is deadly dull. It goes like this:
- Worldcon -7 days: all the authors post that they will definitely be going (or not).
- W -6 days: the authors that said they weren't going change their minds.
- W -5 days: all the authors post their tentative schedules.
- W -4 days: the schedules changes.
- W -3 days: lots of posts about packing.
- W -2 days: posts about how boring long distance flights are.
- W -1 day: "I'm at the airport using the free wifi".
- W 0 day: "I'm at Worldcon!"
- Worldcon itself: complete silence from everyone there, not even a Tweet. Somehow the Hugo results get out but no one is really sure how.
- W +1 day: Everyone not at Worldcon discuss how it's rubbish that Robert J. Sawyer won again, and why didn't Brasyl win?
- W +3 days: People who were at Worldcon post "Had a great time, too much happened to post all about it."
- W +4 days: A million pictures turn up on Flickr, mainly of random people smiling, no one has any idea who they are because the photos have titles like 000125631.jpg
- W +5 days: The stragglers finally post about Worldcon, they expect us to feel sorry that they are tired.
- W +6 days: Everyone posts on how they are reflecting on their Worldcon experience.
- W +7 days: MARK ALL AS READ
WTF?!
RTD comes up with something even more crazy than anything I have guessed so far.
Likelihood: Very High
Opinion: Ho, hum. Moffat's just three episodes away.
RTD comes up with something even more crazy than anything I have guessed so far.
Likelihood: Very High
Opinion: Ho, hum. Moffat's just three episodes away.
The Rocketman Ending
The finale turnes into a bog-standard Doctor Who episode with lots of running and shooting and Daleks. The Doctor doesn't in fact regenerate, because the ending is like one of those Saturday morning serials in black and white, where they show you Rocketman dying but next week reveal he flew away just before he died. The Scooby gang all run around a lot and looked shocked about the Daleks. The Doctor confronts Davros and manages to hit the big red reset switch. All the timelines get reset and everything retruns to normal.
Likelihood: High
Opinion: Very annoying.
The finale turnes into a bog-standard Doctor Who episode with lots of running and shooting and Daleks. The Doctor doesn't in fact regenerate, because the ending is like one of those Saturday morning serials in black and white, where they show you Rocketman dying but next week reveal he flew away just before he died. The Scooby gang all run around a lot and looked shocked about the Daleks. The Doctor confronts Davros and manages to hit the big red reset switch. All the timelines get reset and everything retruns to normal.
Likelihood: High
Opinion: Very annoying.
Everyone (Really) Dies
The Doctor regenerates into James McAvoy. There's a massive fight against the Daleks. Donna sacrifices herself in a last ditch attempt to save them all and fails, she dies. Captain Jack gets captured and hacked into a Dalek. Torchwood gets totally destroyed, including Gwen and Ianto. Sarah Jane runs away and hides with her son. Matrtha Jones gets killed being rubbish. Mickey goes down in a hail of gunfire taking on Davros. Rose tries to use her residue Bad Wolf powers to save them all, she gets banished to a null dimension. The Doctor faces Davros. Everything looks very bad....
...to be continued. In the Christmas special.
Likelihood: Infinitely Low
Opinion: That would be so cool.
The Doctor regenerates into James McAvoy. There's a massive fight against the Daleks. Donna sacrifices herself in a last ditch attempt to save them all and fails, she dies. Captain Jack gets captured and hacked into a Dalek. Torchwood gets totally destroyed, including Gwen and Ianto. Sarah Jane runs away and hides with her son. Matrtha Jones gets killed being rubbish. Mickey goes down in a hail of gunfire taking on Davros. Rose tries to use her residue Bad Wolf powers to save them all, she gets banished to a null dimension. The Doctor faces Davros. Everything looks very bad....
...to be continued. In the Christmas special.
Likelihood: Infinitely Low
Opinion: That would be so cool.
The Rani a.k.a. Donna is a Timelord
The Doctor's regeneration gets stuck and he remains as David Tennant but incapacitated. The Scooby Gang must fight the Daleks. They don't have much success. Fortunately Donna remembers that she as a timelord, The Rani, and she defeats Davros, restores The Doctor to being David Tennant and generally sorts everything out, thanks in no small part to her fully functioning TARDIS which may or may not be her ring.
Likelihood: Medium
Opinion: A working TARDIS would be cool, but not Donna, please.
The Doctor's regeneration gets stuck and he remains as David Tennant but incapacitated. The Scooby Gang must fight the Daleks. They don't have much success. Fortunately Donna remembers that she as a timelord, The Rani, and she defeats Davros, restores The Doctor to being David Tennant and generally sorts everything out, thanks in no small part to her fully functioning TARDIS which may or may not be her ring.
Likelihood: Medium
Opinion: A working TARDIS would be cool, but not Donna, please.
The Master Returns
The Doctor regenerates into The Master. Everyone is very confused. The Master is nasty, but still hates Davros. The Master decides to destroy the Daleks because of what they did to the Timelords. There is much fighting. Donna gets killed, The Master is momentarily sad. The Master must sacrifice himself to save the Earth and does, resetting the timelines and regenerating back into The Doctor. Torchwood, unfortunately, survives.
Likelihood: Very Low
Opinion: Too crazy even for RTD
The Doctor regenerates into The Master. Everyone is very confused. The Master is nasty, but still hates Davros. The Master decides to destroy the Daleks because of what they did to the Timelords. There is much fighting. Donna gets killed, The Master is momentarily sad. The Master must sacrifice himself to save the Earth and does, resetting the timelines and regenerating back into The Doctor. Torchwood, unfortunately, survives.
Likelihood: Very Low
Opinion: Too crazy even for RTD
The One With Eddie Izzard
The Doctor regenerates into Eddie Izzard, who is surprisingly cool as The Doctor and not annoying at all because he does "proper acting" with cutting witty remarks. They fight their way to Davros' command ship. Davros faces The Doctor and they have an awesome banter fight. To beat the Daleks The Doctor has to sacrifice Donna who still has some time voodoo on her back. The Doctor is surprisingly ruthless and just as he was in The Time War. He ends the episode alone, and goes to choose some new clothes, which actually aren't women's clothes.
Likelihood: Very Low
Opinion: Le singe est dans les arbres
The Doctor regenerates into Eddie Izzard, who is surprisingly cool as The Doctor and not annoying at all because he does "proper acting" with cutting witty remarks. They fight their way to Davros' command ship. Davros faces The Doctor and they have an awesome banter fight. To beat the Daleks The Doctor has to sacrifice Donna who still has some time voodoo on her back. The Doctor is surprisingly ruthless and just as he was in The Time War. He ends the episode alone, and goes to choose some new clothes, which actually aren't women's clothes.
Likelihood: Very Low
Opinion: Le singe est dans les arbres
Bad Wolf a.k.a. Rose dies again
Whilst the Doctor is regenerating Rose somehow uses her Bad Wolf powers to bring the same Doctor back, queue David Tennant's smiling face. Rose then collapses with exhaustion. Everyone fights the Daleks. Captain Jack dies again. Hooray! Unfortunately he's Captain Scarlet. Booo! Davros is close to exterminating reality, he kills Donna, many tears flow. Just in time Rose wakes up and uses more Bad Wolf powers to sort everything out. Unfortunately this means that Rose dies. More tears and a bitter sweet ending.
Likelihood: Medium
Opinion: Hmmmm
Whilst the Doctor is regenerating Rose somehow uses her Bad Wolf powers to bring the same Doctor back, queue David Tennant's smiling face. Rose then collapses with exhaustion. Everyone fights the Daleks. Captain Jack dies again. Hooray! Unfortunately he's Captain Scarlet. Booo! Davros is close to exterminating reality, he kills Donna, many tears flow. Just in time Rose wakes up and uses more Bad Wolf powers to sort everything out. Unfortunately this means that Rose dies. More tears and a bitter sweet ending.
Likelihood: Medium
Opinion: Hmmmm
The Doctor Really Regenerates a.k.a. The Best Kept Secret In Television
The Doctor really did get shot, and really did die, and regenerates into.... Robert Carlyle. Now things are different, for a start, this man has dealt with zombies and Glasweigans. There's a bloody, epic battle against the Daleks, which turns into a daring raid on Davros's master command vessel. The Supreme Dalek gets annihilated on the way. The Doctor confronts Davros, it looks like the end for The Doctor. Then Dalek Caan does an emergency temporal shift, because he's mental, and it screws everything up, resetting all the timelines. We're led to believe that David Tennant will be back, but the big end of episode surprise is that it's still Robert Carlyle.
Likelihood: Low
Opinion: Cool.
The Doctor really did get shot, and really did die, and regenerates into.... Robert Carlyle. Now things are different, for a start, this man has dealt with zombies and Glasweigans. There's a bloody, epic battle against the Daleks, which turns into a daring raid on Davros's master command vessel. The Supreme Dalek gets annihilated on the way. The Doctor confronts Davros, it looks like the end for The Doctor. Then Dalek Caan does an emergency temporal shift, because he's mental, and it screws everything up, resetting all the timelines. We're led to believe that David Tennant will be back, but the big end of episode surprise is that it's still Robert Carlyle.
Likelihood: Low
Opinion: Cool.
The Partial Regeneration
The Doctor regenerates, but into David Tennant. Surprise! The reason is either that it was a glancing blow, or because the Earth is one second out of sync with reality. The Doctor fights the Daleks, gets to Davros' control room and manages to hit the time-out-of-sync button (tm), thanks to Donna sacrificing herself, which puts the Earth back where it came from. This resets all the timelines. Rose is still stuck in a parallel universe. Torchwood survive, unfortunately.
Likelihood: High
Opinion: Annoying
The Doctor regenerates, but into David Tennant. Surprise! The reason is either that it was a glancing blow, or because the Earth is one second out of sync with reality. The Doctor fights the Daleks, gets to Davros' control room and manages to hit the time-out-of-sync button (tm), thanks to Donna sacrificing herself, which puts the Earth back where it came from. This resets all the timelines. Rose is still stuck in a parallel universe. Torchwood survive, unfortunately.
Likelihood: High
Opinion: Annoying
