And now, Friday evening fangirlishness

[annathepiper]

I have come to the conclusion that since Tenth Doctor has been labeled the Geek Doctor (at least around the Murkworks), he is clearly the Doctor of Choice for we, the proud members of Dork Nation. This requires an appropriate icon. Suggestions are heretofore solicited for best possible Tenth Doctor icon to bear the caption "Proud member of Dork Nation"!

With this in mind, I now also bring you these various items with which I intend to build up my credit as an official Tenth Doctor fangirling dork:

spazzkat provides this Bob the Angry Flower strip, in which Bob demonstrates that he too is a Doctor fandork.

The BBC's official Doctor site has a boatload of wallpapers you can download, and one of them, of Ten standing in the doorway of the TARDIS, has become my current ogle pic loaded into my browser. It has ousted Great Big Sea pics, people. Do you know how hard a pic has to work to knock Alan Doyle farther down my ogle queue?

In an effort to improve my classic Doctor fangirl cred as well, I have been reading all the Doctor Who quotes up on wikiquote.org. There are some choice ones scattered all over the older Doctors. I particularly like this one for Second Doctor, which demonstrates that hey, Two was a bit of a bastard, wasn't he? ;)

A few days ago I picked up the new Doctor Who soundtrack, which covers choice tracks from both Nine's series as well as the first series of Ten. There's a whole lot of instrumental goodness all over this thing, as well as a couple of not half-bad vocal tracks--"Song for Ten", which plays when Ten is picking out his new outfit in the TARDIS, and "Love Don't Roam", which is playing during the reception scene in "Smith and Jones". Also, there's a really cool long version of the theme as the very last track. I still music-geekishly swoon over hearing the theme played by a full orchestra every time we watch an episode, but the long version? Cooler. Listen for the bits towards the end of the track where the trumpets are taking up the theme, bright and clear and ringing. Very cool indeed.

Also, the album's available for purchase on the iTunes music store, but get a physical CD if you can, since the liner notes do have neat photos as well as little bits of commentary from Murray Gold, the composer, for all the various tracks.

Last but not least, also in the theme of Doctor Who icons, I must direct you to this little gem belonging to neadods, provided courtesy of risu, which is the Best Tenth Doctor Icon Ever.

Comments

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

If you were one of the lucky few, you got a pin in the CD case as well when you bought the OST.

I still say The Doctor is my favorite track on that CD.

[annathepiper]

"The Doctor's Theme", track 3?

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[annathepiper]

Yeah, that is pretty fabulous. Though I am also grooving on the cello in "The Impossible Planet". :)

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that haunting theme for Madame de Pompadour.

[annathepiper]

Yes! Very, very nice, that. :D Made me want to go back and re-watch "Girl in the Fireplace".

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

My favorite episode thus far.

[annathepiper]

Very, very high on the list indeed!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Aside from the many, many other good reasons for Ten to be the Official Doctor of Murk, one more: he reminds me of a parakeet sometimes. XD XD XD

Did you ever get that Confidential for Gridlock?

[annathepiper]

I DID, and I have watched the first fifteen minutes or so of it, and need to watch the rest. I am full of much love for Tennant's natural Scottish accent. And also, the footage of him and the kittens. <3 <3 Thank you much!

Also, good icon there of yours!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

SO much gratuitous footage of him with kittens - it is a kind of porn, I think. And the accent, oh lord.

And there sure are a lot of good iconers in the fandom, too! :-)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, I mean, the thing got to the part where he was cracking jokes about how he comes onto the set after folks in makeup have already been made up, and then he sees them without the makeup, and it's all weird. And he got to saying "disorientating", and my brain just kind of started idling, saying "mmmmm Scottish accent mmmmm" to itself. ;)

I have seen quite a large collection of icons all over the place, indeed, and several communities devoted to Who icons of various flavors, both current and classic!

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

It has ousted Great Big Sea pics, people. Do you know how hard a pic has to work to knock Alan Doyle farther down my ogle queue?

Aha, someone else has demonstrated that The Doyle can be outranked under certain circumstances. OK, now I don't feel like quite so much of a traitor :) Speaking of my treason, History Channel Canada is selectively Season 3 of DFT *bounce*. However, I still need the tapes from you because otherwise I only get 1/2 to 2/3 of the episodes. HCC keeps messing with their broadcast schedule, though so far my PVR is keeping up.

[annathepiper]

Ah, and speaking of tapes, I do in fact have the tape with the rest of the episodes of Season 3 to send you! Seven of 'em!

I intend to send it out tomorrow.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

and if one of my 'housemates' wasn't sound asleep, you'd heard the SQUEEEEEEE! from there :) uhm, shouldn't 7 eps be on 2 tapes? or did you find one of those spiffy 8 hour units? and on a barely related note, I need either a DFT or JB fangrrl icon, since The Doyle is only tangentially related at this stage of the conversation :) OH! Wait, i think <-- that one will do nicely :)

[annathepiper]

This particular tape is indeed an 8 hour one! As for icons, heh, I bet the folks at dft_fans could probably help you out with the icon thing, though that appears to be a fairly new community and I don't see any icon posts on it yet.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

...ook, that's not fair. I've got HEART OF STONE up as my computer background right now, and I don't WANT to change it, but *damn* that's a great picture of the Doctor. My O my O my O my. *bookmarks for later backgrounding* :)

Also, yes, that is a very awesome icon. *laugh*

[annathepiper]

Isn't it just? It was verra verra nice!

The aforementioned boatload of backgrounds is here!

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Doctor Two, in spite of bearing the label of cosmic hobo, often gave hints of a very sinister, ruthless air. Just flashes which were revealed in certain situations. You got the impression that the whole "Oh, my dear Aunt Polly!" thing was just a facade he used to make interaction with mere humans easier, and to fool the villains.

What made him a hero was that these flashes were most often revealed when a friend or innocent was in danger. "Yes, Jamie, I think we shall definitely take a closer look at what the renowned Professor is actually up to." With an expression and tone of voice which must have given said Professor a puzzling shiver.

[annathepiper]

I've barely seen any of Second Doctor--I mean, even out of what little there is to see. Our local public broadcasting station that shows Classic Doctor doesn't show Second Doctor very often, so I don't remember those ones well.

But yeah, that description of him does sound apt for what little bits of him I've seen. :)