From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet"

"...will find the Holy Grail in the Castle of...ARRRRGH!"
"...wot?"

The Doctor and Rose land in a TARDIS that almost seems to be groaning in protest. The Doctor notes how strange this is, and after the pair have a laugh at the thought of going somewhere else, he and Rose find a grafitti'd bunch of symbols on a wall under a heading of "Welcome to Hell".

Putting that bar a wee bit high, aren't we?

From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: The Idiot's Lantern"

Rose Tyler pulls a Face/Off! An alien is over the top! The Doctor survives an electrical shock through the use of rubber soles!

...one of those things is ridiculous even for this show. Can you tell which one?

From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: The Age of Steel"

*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here...

...and that's when the tension died.

Oh, hi! Didn't see you there! Last we left the TARDIS crew, they were stuck on a parallel Earth where the Cybermen came up on Earth instead of Mondas. Does Mondas even exist in the other universe? I have no idea, it never even gets brought up beyond an extreme veiled reference.

But with the Doctor, Mickey, Rose, Pete, and the Preachers surrounded by Cybermen bent on their deletion, what can they possibly do to get out of this one?!

Use a plot convenience card, of course!

What If...The Doctor had never met Rose Tyler? (Series 1, Part 2)

Time once again to delve into one of my favorite storytelling engines - the What If? story. Last time, we spoke about what would happen if the Doctor had never encountered Rose Tyler while investigating the Nestene Consciousness in London in 2005. For the most part, events played out in a very similar way to the broadcast stories. While some, like The End of the World happened without the Doctor's intervention and thus were far worse off, we got what (at the risk of being egotistical) I think is a far better version of the events of Aliens of London and World War Three, with Mickey and his girlfriend Shareen taking up the Doctor's offer to travel in the TARDIS.

What exciting adventures will await them?

...the rest of Series 1, obviously. Though not quite as expected.

From MadCap's Couch - "Doctor Who: Rise of the Cybermen"

"What if you could wvorp between a thousand different worlds?"

So, we come to the New Series version of the Cybermen. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself except I'm not. Russell T. Davies apparently thought that the Cybermen would make much more sense than the Doctor running into another race of evil cyborgs (even though he's already done that and will do so again), and so decided to drum up the Cybermen for Series 2. A solid plan that makes perfect sense. The only way he could make it unnecessarily complicated is by doing something stupid like them coming from a parallel universe or something.

...oh.

Ohhhhh...

MadCap's Reel Thoughts - Westworld (1973)

Science fiction was a very different place before Star Wars showed up. Far and away from the high adventure and wonder, the 1970s in science fiction were all about dark, gritty, and depressing. A wasteland of dystopia that was the truth behind the thin veneer of "the future!". This is characterized in many sci-fi films of that decade and one of the best textbook examples of that is Westworld. Made in 1973, it concerns an amusement park in the future year of...1983.

Well, remember, we've always thought flying cars are just twenty years in the future for the past century...

MadCap's Fiction Corner - "Minos Mayhem, Chapter 8"

As he quickly stripped one of the two troopers and began to strip off his own outfit to replace with the Stormtrooper armor, Calen took a few milliseconds to reflect on how absolutely insane his life had become over just the past few days.  After that instinct that had told him to run, things had been fairly quiet for a year afterward. Then his captain was killed, he willingly went along on a quest for revenge against the Twi’lek who had murdered him, he’d found there was a cult on a dead planet that was seeking a mysterious power, and that the Empire in the region was looking for that power, too, because of a heist gone wrong decades before.

And now, he was being sprung from prison by a bird woman Jedi.