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As you likely know, Doctor Who follows the exploits of a time-travelling do-gooder virtual tours online whose erratic jumps through the centuries are made possible by the TARDIS, a combination time machine/spaceship that looks on the outside like an old-fashioned British phone booth.
Doctor Who aired on TVOntario, virtual tours online this province's educational virtual tours online broadcaster. They were followed by discussions led by Doctor Dave and then the Undoctor - looking back, I'm sure those epilogue-like segments were a way of making sure the sci-fi/horror program qualifed as educational content to suit TVO's mandate.
One of the Doctor's peculiarities is that he belongs to an alien race that can regenerate, which means he takes on a new body every few years. In this way, several actors have played the character since the series debuted in 1963. When I started watching, he was played by the charming Tom Baker, who brought a flippant courage to the proceedings.
Although a handful of my friends virtual tours online in Poplar Hill also watched those episodes - which ended with old-fashioned cliffhangers - every Saturday and Thursday virtual tours online night, we did so with the knowledge that few others, and no adults whatsoever, shared our passion.
In small-town Ontario, supplementary Doctor Who content was hard to come by. I grabbed all the paperback adaptions I could find, and Marvel Comics even did a two-part story in one of its anthology titles.
Doctor Who now airs on mainstream networks like Space. Fans who live in isolated areas can be instantly connected to the larger community of Whovians by means of the internet. Merchandise is abundant.
The program's ubiquity hit me with full force last summer on my annual trip to Fan Expo - the gathering of sci-fi and comic enthusiasts in Toronto. virtual tours online There, I saw a number of young women dressed as the TARDIS, equipped with revolving lights worn on top of their heads. I even saw a some TARDIS tattoos.
Here's virtual tours online the thing that unsettles me: Being a geek is too easy now. There's so much infrastructure already in place, literally anyone can be a geek. I'm not sure that's a good thing. It devalues the currency.
When I was a kid, readers of the afore-mentioned Marvel Comics could only dream of big-screen adaptations of their favourite virtual tours online titles featuring A-list actors. Now movies starring the X-Men, Spider-Man and even the Punisher come out regularly.
Even watching Star Wars was harder in decades past: My friends and I had to wait three years to see Han Solo defrosted; youngsters today watch The Empire Strikes Back, then simply virtual tours online pop in the next DVD without pausing.
Somewhere along the way, capitalism triumphed. Some very smart people discovered that obscure bits of culture could be turned into truly popular culture by consciously targeting and milking cult followings. It's the end of a way of life and the beginning of a new one.
Geeks always used to compare themselves to sports fans when they had to explain their devotion and habit of dressing up in costume. We're only as devoted to Doctor Who as, say, Maple Leaf fans are devoted to their beloved virtual tours online hockey team, they'd say in their own defence.