The Doctor Plays Cowboys & Aliens in Season 7
The first trailer for the seventh season of Doctor Who leaked this weekend in bootleg form. Insanely, instead of futilely trying to take down an increasing number of copies on YouTube, the BBC just released the official one. Madness, I know! Anyways, I can’t decide if this trailer is for one episode, or mostly one episode, or if there’s going to be a two- or three-parter with a Western theme, but yeah, it’s cowboys and aliens. I’d kind of prefer more stand alone episodes — I think Moffat’s biggest problem as Who showrunner is that he keeps doing these complicated, overarching plots and it’s just bogging things down — but at least I didn’t see River Song in there, so thank god for that. As overused as the Daleks got in the RTD years, I’m with the Doctor: “Give me a Dalek any day.” (Via The Mary Sue)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.