'Doctor Who's Day Roundup: Thank You Peter Capaldi
Welcome to the Doctor Who's Day roundup, a huge glowing mass of fan-made creativity and Whovian news that bulged out of a week on the internet and social media.
And we begin this week with New York Comic-Con, a place of worship for fandoms of all shapes and colors. Peter Capaldi was there, representing Doctor Who for the final time as the current owner-occupier of the TARDIS, and to mark his appearance (in a very fetching David Bowie T-shirt), BBC America prepared this very special video to play, in which fans have one simple message for their Doctor. A heartfelt thank you:
Footage has also appeared of his entire solo panel, which you can see below (and there's a full report on the Q&A here). Highlights include the strange way in which Peter found out Jodie Whittaker had got the part of the Doctor, and the place at which he gets his trousers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrAWb9Kfhkw
Here's what else has been going on in space and time this week:
• Impressionist Jon Culshaw reads Russell T Davies' poem Friend Ship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEpy3PWH8Y
• The Fourth Doctor in a tangle:
https://twitter.com/sugarpoultry/status/916151257038856192
• "Shada" is regenerating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67qiRyJ35nw
• Superb "Genesis of the Daleks" fan art:
https://twitter.com/ConnorJAdkins/status/917455234640773120
• Doctor Who: The Fan Show's Christel Dee interviewed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IftGz9rX1Pk
• K9 is 40:
• The Doctor and the Master, an intergalactic, transtemporal bromance:
https://twitter.com/Mogamoka2/status/916674402325897216
• Speaking of whom:
https://twitter.com/BlogtorWho/status/913121431537545216
• Missy is poison:
https://twitter.com/_Art_By_Steve_/status/915346394382311427
• David Tennant appears in Fireman Sam: Alien Alert - The Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSuCrPP_Ayc
• Color backstage shots from the First Doctor era:
https://twitter.com/ClassicDrWho/status/916777965186404352
• A teaser trailer for the Third Doctor Ice Warrior adventure "The Curse of Peladon:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bZHeipHztE
• I wear a Dalek. Daleks are cool now:
https://twitter.com/nerdist/status/917615689577492480
• Attack eyebrows on point:
https://twitter.com/GarabateroDiaz/status/917017448783728645
• A cinematic trailer for "Father's Day:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMt5GEBsS-k
• Find out just how long Steven Moffat waited to put one of his ideas into action:
https://twitter.com/anglophenia/status/917493532436434945
• The Second Doctor:
https://twitter.com/JoseRodMota/status/914848854918537216
• And to end on a musical note, this remarkable clip hopes to answer the question we've all been asking. What if '80s electropop poineers The Art of Noise had been asked to record a version of the Doctor Who theme in 1984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obYiZfRTBJA
TTFN!