The Top Floor Flat

Alright, this should, in theory, be the last post of extreme Doctor Who geekitude for quite some time (seeing as the show is over and I’ve now done… well, this.)

Today I went to the Doctor Who Exhibition at one of the main exhibition centre here in the city. I guess they actually have Doctor Who Exhibitions on a fairly regular basis, both in London and around the UK, because it’s so popular, but this was a particularly big one and had all of the props from the new series. They’re the actual props from the show too, as well as a lot of actual costumes, which was really exciting.

I’m not going to post all of the pictures here because they’re on my facebook account here if you really care and most of them are of monsters or characters that are unique to the show so it wouldn’t mean much if you haven’t seen it. Here are some pictures of me, though.

This is me in front of the TARDIS (in the show, The Doctor travels in a space and time travel machine called the TARDIS which stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space. It is supposed to be able to change shape so that it matches with its surroundings but it got stuck as a 1950s police call box, and is the most iconic image from the show. It’s bigger on the inside.)

This is me next to the Face of Boe, a super awesome character of highly enigmatic proportions. He also may or may not be a three million year old version of one of the show’s most awesome characters, Captain Jack.

And… this is me next to a cyberman – a metallic, emotionless, soulless thing that used to be a human but now wants to kill me. I escaped.

Finally, below is a video of one of the exhibits – the exhibit of the ultimate, can’t get any worse, end of the world villains who reoccur throughout the show. They’re called the Daleks and they’re terrifying.

Doctor Who has a sort of tradition of appealing to adults and children, but the adults watch it on the sofa and the children hide behind the sofa because of the scary monsters. This was true with the original series (which ran from 1963 to 1989) and today with the new series (which has been running since 2005). In the little shop (they had a little shop, I love it when they have a shop) it was quite cute – there was a dad showing his young son the merchandise and he said, “why don’t you get a Dalek shirt? Then you can really show that you’re not afraid of the Daleks!” to which the son replied, “but I AM scared of the Daleks!!” Good call kid. Anything that runs around yelling ‘Exterminate’ is bad news.

Alright, that about sums up my incredibly geeky day. I managed to salvage my dignity by going to a super posh area of town with Mimi for sushi, dessert and window shopping and tomorrow I’m having proper afternoon tea with Vori, a lovely girl who I’ve met once before as she’s a friend of Debbi’s. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll also get a bit of shopping in as I think at they office they’re beginning to wonder why I only have three outfits.