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Stormtroopers, anime characters and zombies are among the weird and wonderful characters celebrating Christchurch’s Armageddon Expo this weekend. The annual two-day event attracted 7,000 science fiction and fantasy fans, many dressed up as their favourite characters from cartoons, television and movies.
Jurors in the Michael Jackson case were shown an email on Monday (Tuesday NZ time) in which the top executive at AEG Live LLC expressed grave concerns about treatments Jackson was receiving from his longtime dermatologist.
Kiwi screenwriter Neil Cross, who wrote lines for actor Matt Smith in Doctor Who, says he will miss the actor desperately. The BBC this week announced Smith would leave the show after four years in the role of the renegade twin hearted Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey at the end of this year’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
It’s a mystery almost worthy of the Time Lord himself – who will succeed Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who Speculation in the UK is rampant that the Beeb will tap a woman to play the 12th incarnation of the Doctor in the beloved sci-fi series.
Matt Smith is giving Doctor Who fans something new to obsess about after the mind warp that was the season seven finale: he is quitting.
More than 20,000 people are expected to stream through the doors of the Armageddon Expo, held at Westpac Stadium this weekend.
A pair of grease monkeys are interrupted from their work as an alarm sounds. They look quizzically at each other before one asks: “What kind of idiot would try and steal a faulty Tardis” We’re on Gallifrey, the home planet of the Time Lords, and it is a very long time ago
Doctor Who Nightmare In Silver Now that’s more like it. From the moment it was announced Neil Gaiman was writing last night’s episode of Doctor Who I had high hopes.
For a select few around the world, 2013 is a year of joy, mystery and edge-of-your-seat spoiler gathering. It’s not our fault that we are so obsessed.
REVIEW: Review Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror Every now and then an episode of Doctor Who comes along that is greater than the sum of its parts. The opposite is true of The Crimson Horror whose sum parts are greater than its whole