Giant Freakin Robot

If you didn’t know yet, Amy and Rory are leaving Doctor Who this season at Christmas. It’s rather hard to come to terms with, especially since like many I’ve come to have a major girl-crush on the feisty red-headed Amy. How will the next companion, recently announced as Jenna-Louise Coleman (best known for playing Jasmine Thomas on Emmerdale), ever measure up?

Who showrunner Steven Moffat has reassurances. He promises in Doctor Who Magazine that the new companion will certainly “shock,” but beneath the differences all companions are “the same.” Moffat explains…

What is the base group of people who would run away with the Doctor? They’re all going to be a bit mad. A bit dislocated. Not happy with where they are. Are they yearning for outer space? They’re going to be people who feel like they can take on the Doctor, who’s quite an intimidating sort of person. So, they’re going to be feisty – they’re going to be all those things. He sort of defines the people who are going to travel with him. The distinction comes very much from the various actors and actresses. So, you know, they’re the ones who create the differences between them. But you are always going to have the same sort of person, just because it’s the same man choosing them, and it’s the same person being chosen.

Here’s a thing that exists: dog bakeries. As in bakeries, for dogs. They don’t bake things using dogs as an ingredients. They aren’t “dog themed.” People give them money, and in exchange they make cookies or cakes or whatnot out of dog-friendly ingredients, and then you give those cookies or cakes or whatnot to your dog, who takes a break from drinking out of the toilet or licking his own anus, and he eats them. This is a perfectly understandable use of resources since we as a species have eliminated poverty and hunger worldwide.

Still, if you truly care for your pet and want to give them a special treat, why not make something cool for them instead? Apparently film-referencing pet habitats are all the rage these days. We previously saw the rather awesome CAT-AT, but what if your tastes tend more toward cheeky British time-travelers? Perhaps you could follow the lead of TardisBuilders member astromark and build a Cat TARDIS. Objectively, it’s just as frivolous as spending money at a pet bakery, but you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you made the gift yourself, plus you’ll have a better chance of becoming internet-famous.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology houses some of the brightest young minds of our age. It’s a resource for the future, a melting pot of ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come. Unfortunately, all that potential may be squandered, because Kuriositas reports that a Dalek was recently spotted on the MIT campus, and unless The Doctor shows up soon, the entire area is no doubt soon the be reduced to a smoldering crater.

Despite their universe-conquering ambitions, the Daleks have been foiled time and time again by a single rogue Time Lord and a procession of largely powerless traveling companions. Even once they got upgraded so that they could no longer be defeated by a flight of stairs, the Daleks have remained one of the galaxy’s greatest punch lines. Maybe it’s the plunger on their heads. Maybe it’s the screechy, trying-too-hard voice. And maybe they just need a bold new direction in leadership. It’s time to let a lady take the wheel. Courtesy of The Dalek Factor, I give you the Aperture Dalek.