Redheads are Fixed Points in Time (Doctor Who)

Donna Noble

First appeared when the Tardis beamed her aboard due to being of the same kind of particles that the Tardis emits. This was due to some kind of invasion by an alien race.

At her last appearance, Donna was left in the Tardis when the Daleks invaded the earth after rebuffing the Cybermen's offer of alliance. The Tenth Doctor's hand then was activated by his regeneration energy to form the human version of the Doctor using Donna's DNA as the template.

Amelia Pond

First appeared when the Tenth Doctor regenerated into the Eleventh. Because the Eleventh Doctor complained about not being ginger, the Tardis aimed for Amelia Pond's house because of the cracks on her bedroom wall.

Last appearance was when both she and Rory Williams, her husband, were transported to late 1940s Manhattan by the cherub form of the weeping angels. Due to the time anomaly, the Doctor cannot fly the Tardis back to that point in time. Only Melody Pond's time vortex manipulator can gain her access to the time period.

Diary 20130428 1645H: The OAPFILES Series 1 Episode 1

This is related to Doctor Who through the following lame joke that may only appeal to fellow Whovians, whenever you get it:

"Help! Silence has fallen and it can't get up!"

Obviously then it must be plenty old in its age, as most members of the Silence tend to be taller than I am, and bristling with energy.

Elderly members of these creatures, assisted by human members of the Silence, tend to lose their energy when underwater. Yet they appear not to drown.

It's unknown if they are related to the cracks in walls of the bedroom of Amelia Pond, who was captured as an adult by the shawdowy organization.

No, wait! That was the theme of Series 5 of Doctor Who.

As well, three years ago, Series 5 was on my shopping list when HMV closed its downtown Vancouver location. However, HMV is still popular in tony South Surrey, BC.

In the OAPFiles, I'll just peruse my sometimes foggy recollections of Doctor Who's 11th regeneration where some unnamed soothsayer in Pompeii goes unnoticed by the Doctor in his 10th regeneration. Or, did she?

If the soothsayer was turning into a Pyroville, then it's possible that she could have survived Vesuvius, though not as a human.

OK, there is no relationship whatsoever between the psychic cult member rendered psychic by inhaling fumes that are morphing her body into a Pyroville, one of a rock-based humanoid people from the planet Pyrovillia who convert humans into their own kind near volcanoes.

After reading about how Gillan and Freema_Agyeman go their roles, I could understand the reason for recycling actors who played small roles on Doctor Who: secrecy.

OK that's it for the first OAPFiles. Next time, I'm going to complain about something else in a very short blog about Doctor Who.

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Reference:

Karen Gillan as Soothsayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEIZ8YpviY
Soothsayer (The Fires of Pompeii: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Soothsayer_(The_Fires_of_Pompeii

Where's Arthur Darvill At?

If you're a fan of Dr Who, you know him as Rory Williams, husband of Amy Pond on Dr Who, wed during Series 5, survived the apparent death of the Doctor in Series 6 and sent by a stone angel to a fixed point in time in Manhattan in the late 1940s in Series 7.

If not, then the 2010 Ian Dury biopic, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll had him cast as Mick Gallagher, the guy who played the Hammond organ for Dury's band, The Blockheads. Showcased as Ian Dury and the Blockheads, this band's claim to fame is the song Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Darvill was a perfect fit for Gallagher, since his father played Hammond organ for the Northern Soul artist Edwin Starr, R&B and soul singer, Ruby Turner, the reggae/pop band UB40 and the rock band Fine Young Cannibals.


He's also had a solid background in theatre from age 10 on with training in stage combat at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Here he is in military uniform with weapon at the ready in the Dr Who Series 6 final, The Wedding of River Song in a smashing fan video mix with music from The End by Kings of Leon with shorts that episode.




Though, his role as Rory Williams may have something to do with both Darvill and Matt Smith, starring the stage play version of Swimming with Sharks in 2007. If Steven Moffat heard about that, then it would be great to team them up with Karen Gillan, who received a lot of comedy and drama spots from BBC.

Yet that's speculation, which is what gossip isn't about. >:)

When the Emilé Zola novel, Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Paradise), was rewritten for UK TV as The Paradise in 2012, transplanting its characters to North East England, Arthur Darvill played in a bit part as Bradley Burroughs in Episode 5. He plays a barber who is made a junior partner in the Paradise, a high-class department store by its founder Moray. When Burroughs threatens to reveal all about Moray's wife's death, he ends up missing (and probably dead).

Last year, he played in Doctor Faustus as Mephistopheles at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. This year, he played Parry in Our Boys at Duchess Theatre. These theatres may not be as big as Broadway is to Americans, but to people in the UK who love theatre, these venues are bigger in their eyes.

So, it looks like theatre is in his blood and he's good at bit parts, plus he knows how to make pizza. That's where Arthur Darvill's at.

Dr Who's Got a New Companion!

Yes, it might be be old news to Dr Who fans, but what is new are the two following videos, which introduces Earth's Greatest Detective.



This video also clued me in on Karen Gillan's green card, as noted in my previous blog entry.

Next, Jenna-Louise Coleman is introduced as Carla, the Doctor's new companion.



So, it looks like Dr Who will replace Sherlock Holmes as the Universe's Greatest Detective.

No, wait! Better yet, Carla will become Dr Who's new companion, and bring proper manners and proper decor to the Tardis!

Though, it's only proper now to Google "Arthur Darvill" and find out what's happening to the actor who played Rory Williams...

Karen Gillan's in L.A.

Now that she's got a green card, Karen Gillan's gone to Los Angeles to get a lot of movie making happening in the years to come. Indeed, she's legally allowed to stay in America.

Yes, yes, all that marketing in the talk show circuit has paid off.

Set to play in theatres in 2014, the movie Oculus is a horror film about a deadly mirror.

Now, Gillan has done horror before, this year starring in the BBC Two multi platform teen horror series The Well. Back in 2010, she starred in Outcast, a supernatural thriller, which is this close to horror without the blood and guts. It makes marvelous use of her Scots accent as it takes place in Edinburgh.

That Karen Gillan, though.. she knows how to tell a mean joke, using herself as material when opportunity presents itself. Craig Ferguson sets it nicely too by noting that as a redhead, she'll be needing the sunblock. I won't be spoiling the punchline for any of my followers who like that sort of humor.

Before I end my fan gossip about Gillan, whose role as Amy Pond on Dr Who for Series 5 to 7 brought new life to the BBC series, my search for Karen Gillan and Los Angeles led me to the video accompanying this blog post.

How that search began needs covering in my next blog entry... >:)