I’ll be the first to admit that when I get ‘into’ something, I really get ‘into’ it…like my favorite bands…now, that doesn’t mean that I’m going to be stalking any rock stars anytime soon, but as an example…I can tell you pretty much anything you’d want to know about any song in the Beatles catalog (who wrote it, how such and such on the song was recorded, where the idea came from)….you get the point.
One of the things that I’ve loved since I was in the 5th grade is the British sci fi show ‘Doctor Who’. Like many in the USA, I discovered it when my local PBS affiliate picked it up…suddenly, I was drawn into the world of this guy with a floppy hat, a ton of curly hair, and a LLLLOOOONNNGGGG scarf who was funny, snarky, smarter than you and anyone else in the room, and had this incredible passion to make things just and right, even if that wasn’t the ‘prettiest’ solution to a problem…
Now, after gracing the British airwaves from 1963 to 1989, the series is enjoying a revival with new episodes…with a 4th season of new stuff about to conclude across the pond (SciFi channel’s about 3 weeks behind the BBC’s airing of the show, so we’re about 4 episodes away from the end of the season).
You can be a ‘Trekkie’ or a ‘Star Wars’ fan if you like…I’ll take the guy who travels time and space in a blue box that’s bigger on the inside than the outside.