Sylvester McCoy compares the Doctor to Jesus:
'It's that classic tale of the little man against great odds. That, and the other classic story of someone from outside our world coming down to help us. That makes it very attractive to human beings. I don't mean to be sacrilegious, but Jesus came down from outside the world to save us and it's that kind of area. Science fiction has a quasi religious quality to it. People who are attracted to sci-fi are often not religious in other ways but are attracted to this idea of hope for the future, so it's a kind of religion in that way.'
Apparently he was also the runner-up to play Bilbo Baggins in _The Lord of the Rings_. How much would that have rocked?
(Answer: a lot.)
Oh, have you heard Tom Baker impersonator Jon Culshaw prank-calling Sylvester McCoy?
'Have you been in the pub?''For several millennia.'
And while I'm on the subject, have you seen the video of Leonard Nimoy's 'Ballad of Bilbo Baggins'? Which must rank as a classic amongst terrible, yet oddly compelling, surreal booty-shaking pop culture meltdowns? Mr Nimoy has been a busy man.
Posted by aloysius at April 14, 2003 09:16 PM |