We’ve got something quite special turning up here at Brian of Morbius over the next day or two, but right now it’s half past six in the morning and I’m just taking a few minutes to do a meme catchup before these go completely out of date. In culinary terms, this is the blogging equivalent of that thing where you get all the leftovers out of the fridge and whisk them into a soup. I suppose. Sorry if that doesn’t work, I’ve not had coffee yet…
We open with a deleted scene from the recent finale to The Mandalorian, indicating that the series’ big reveal was originally planned much, much earlier.
I don’t know what it is; I tried every which way but when you paste it onto Matt Smith’s body it just doesn’t look like Luke Skywalker. Is this because it never did? And we simply bought it because the he had a lightsaber in his hand, had just jumped out of an X-Wing and the whole thing bore an uncanny resemblance to the ending of Rogue One? Or is my Photoshopping off this week? I’d say I think we should be told, but I can’t help thinking it’s not important in the grand scheme of things.
In any case, it’s not the first time I’ve done a Doctor Who / Mandalorian crossover and I suspect it won’t be the last.
<coughs>
Elsewhere, in a TARDIS somewhere in England, the rollout of the much-anticipated Covid vaccine is not going down with everyone, in a quite literal sense.
There are complaints when it’s revealed the Brexit Deal wasn’t quite as oven-ready as we were told.
And having nothing else to do, movie fans have launched into an epidemic of overreacting to unnecessary changes and miscast musical roles.
“AND THAT’S FOR RUINING THE PROM, YOU TWAT!”
We couldn’t end without doing something Christmassy. So here’s an unused still from series 12, part five.
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Trouble looms when Clara pops round to Matt Smith’s TARDIS to ask whether he’s got the turkey on.
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And trouble also looms beneath a Christmas tree in Oxfordshire when two unsuspecting action figures come up against a deadly enemy.
“Run, Bill! It’s Santa Claws!”
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