MAD DOCTOR OF THE WEEK
THE DOC
THE DOCFrom the Back to the Future series, the Doc isn't about taking over the world. In fact, he's a protagonist in these stories, though still mad and a doctor. Played by Christopher Lloyd, the Doc is fascinated with time and builds his own time machine, wanting to see 30 years into the future. Of course, instead of making this time machine out of anything logical, the Doc decides to make it out of a DeLorean (he claims that if you're going to make a time machine, it's got to have style).
After his successful test run of his beloved time machine, the Doc gets shot by terrorists he was involved with (he really needed the plutonium) and Marty, his right hand man with his experiment recording, flees in the DeLorean and ends up time traveling to 1955, when the movie takes place in the 80's. To get back to his own time, Marty has to team up with the 1955 Doc and get Marty back to where he belong, all while trying to keep the space/time continuum intact and try to warn the Doc of his own future.
The Doc has a habit of refusing to want to know about the future or change time from how it should be, but always ends up going, "Eh, it won't do much damage, anyways." He also loves making model examples to demonstrate his plans to Marty, going to great care to add all little details to it even though none of it is to scale, as he always apologises for. The Doc's filled with little oddities that makes him by far the most interesting character of the entire series, which is saying a lot since the movies have good character development and plot.
A fun fact, Christopher Lloyd voiced a mad doctor-like character in the Hey Arnold Nickelodeon movie. This character also stays in the drawers that keep corpses just so he can scare any guests coming by. Little weird.
After his successful test run of his beloved time machine, the Doc gets shot by terrorists he was involved with (he really needed the plutonium) and Marty, his right hand man with his experiment recording, flees in the DeLorean and ends up time traveling to 1955, when the movie takes place in the 80's. To get back to his own time, Marty has to team up with the 1955 Doc and get Marty back to where he belong, all while trying to keep the space/time continuum intact and try to warn the Doc of his own future.
The Doc has a habit of refusing to want to know about the future or change time from how it should be, but always ends up going, "Eh, it won't do much damage, anyways." He also loves making model examples to demonstrate his plans to Marty, going to great care to add all little details to it even though none of it is to scale, as he always apologises for. The Doc's filled with little oddities that makes him by far the most interesting character of the entire series, which is saying a lot since the movies have good character development and plot.
A fun fact, Christopher Lloyd voiced a mad doctor-like character in the Hey Arnold Nickelodeon movie. This character also stays in the drawers that keep corpses just so he can scare any guests coming by. Little weird.
SCIENTIFIC GOOGLING
This section is dedicated to different things I come across involving mad doctors that can be found on the internet. This week, I came across this address: http://www.drhorrible.com/
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a 45-minute musical broken up into three parts. It's about Dr. Horrible, who's striving to get into the Evil League of Evil ran by Dark Horse. To accomplish this, he tries to pull off heists and other crimes with his inventions to get in. However, Dark Horse isn't impressed by Dr. Horrible and requests that he kill someone to get in.
During this little storyline, Dr. Horrible goes to the laundromat to not only wash his clothes, but try his best to talk to a girl named Penny he loves. Of course, he always ends up coming off as awkward, but he tries nevertheless to win over her heart.
To top this all off, Dr. Horrible's evil nemesis, Capt. Hammer, always gets in the way to foil his plans and beat him into a bloody pulp. This egotistical superhero notices Dr. Horrible's love for Penny, then goes out of his way to date her to make the poor doctor miserable. This pushes Dr. Horrible off the edge as he makes his most evil plan yet.
As mentioned, it's a musical that has a good number of catchy songs, such as "My Freeze Ray" and "Brand New Day." It's aimed to be a comedic story though the main conflict turns for a dramatic piece. The title of this suggests blogging, which is how Dr. Horrible introduces himself by reading emails and going over his latest evil scheme (unfortunately, Capt. Hammer also watches the blog at one point). It's a fun musical to watch (especially since it's free to watch) with a humerous story and Dr. Horrible's one of those characters you just can't help but feel sorry for with all his luck (or lack of it). It can be found on YouTube and other sites, too.
During this little storyline, Dr. Horrible goes to the laundromat to not only wash his clothes, but try his best to talk to a girl named Penny he loves. Of course, he always ends up coming off as awkward, but he tries nevertheless to win over her heart.
To top this all off, Dr. Horrible's evil nemesis, Capt. Hammer, always gets in the way to foil his plans and beat him into a bloody pulp. This egotistical superhero notices Dr. Horrible's love for Penny, then goes out of his way to date her to make the poor doctor miserable. This pushes Dr. Horrible off the edge as he makes his most evil plan yet.
As mentioned, it's a musical that has a good number of catchy songs, such as "My Freeze Ray" and "Brand New Day." It's aimed to be a comedic story though the main conflict turns for a dramatic piece. The title of this suggests blogging, which is how Dr. Horrible introduces himself by reading emails and going over his latest evil scheme (unfortunately, Capt. Hammer also watches the blog at one point). It's a fun musical to watch (especially since it's free to watch) with a humerous story and Dr. Horrible's one of those characters you just can't help but feel sorry for with all his luck (or lack of it). It can be found on YouTube and other sites, too.
SCIENTIFIC THEORIES
Here I'll be be explaining aspects of mad doctors and attempt to explain them. This week will be going on about evil laughter.
We have an example here that I have illustrated of what it's like for a mad doctor to laugh. Now, not all mad doctors laugh like this, but in all honesty, it should be encouraged. The thought here is that every time a mad doctor laughs, lightning will strike. See old Frankenstein movies for more details.
First, we should go over the laugh itself. It's quite important to have a good laugh as a mad doctor (Dr. Horrible even goes over this in his blog). Evil sounding, sinister, with a touch of insanity. The most common evil laughter seem to be the "HAHAHAHAHA" laugh, though there are probably some that go "HOHOHOHO" or "HEEHEEHEEE!" The main point is to communicate to others that you are indeed insane and very dangerous to approach, especially when holding a death laser. It's also a nice segway to go on about nasty plots to all others involved, even if they don't wish to hear it. Granted, it usually ends with the hero using the speech to defeat you, but it was a pretty badass speech for the time.
Now, the lightning effect. For dramatic effect, when certain mad doctors laugh, lightning will strike. It's a common cliche, but I wouldn't call it that. I like to call it good staging. Either way, whether the mad doctors in question create the lightning to laugh to for the effect or if the laughing itself causes the lightning. It probably goes both ways, with some doctors loving the dramatic effect to recreate it themselves to those who just have such a good laugh of pure evil that even God Himself must try to strike down the mad doctor in question.
Which leads to another thought. For those who use their laugh to create lightning, wouldn't it be a more of an effective plan to laugh at the hero and electrocute them? In fact, one could play Thor with this ability and control something so uncontrollable as weather. Is there a reason mad doctors don't use this laughter to their advantages?
The answer is yes. They put a lot of time and money into their overly complicated plans that it would all be ruined if the hero was electrocuted before putting their plan to effect. Thus why mad doctors never use their laughter as a weapon.
We have an example here that I have illustrated of what it's like for a mad doctor to laugh. Now, not all mad doctors laugh like this, but in all honesty, it should be encouraged. The thought here is that every time a mad doctor laughs, lightning will strike. See old Frankenstein movies for more details.
First, we should go over the laugh itself. It's quite important to have a good laugh as a mad doctor (Dr. Horrible even goes over this in his blog). Evil sounding, sinister, with a touch of insanity. The most common evil laughter seem to be the "HAHAHAHAHA" laugh, though there are probably some that go "HOHOHOHO" or "HEEHEEHEEE!" The main point is to communicate to others that you are indeed insane and very dangerous to approach, especially when holding a death laser. It's also a nice segway to go on about nasty plots to all others involved, even if they don't wish to hear it. Granted, it usually ends with the hero using the speech to defeat you, but it was a pretty badass speech for the time.
Now, the lightning effect. For dramatic effect, when certain mad doctors laugh, lightning will strike. It's a common cliche, but I wouldn't call it that. I like to call it good staging. Either way, whether the mad doctors in question create the lightning to laugh to for the effect or if the laughing itself causes the lightning. It probably goes both ways, with some doctors loving the dramatic effect to recreate it themselves to those who just have such a good laugh of pure evil that even God Himself must try to strike down the mad doctor in question.
Which leads to another thought. For those who use their laugh to create lightning, wouldn't it be a more of an effective plan to laugh at the hero and electrocute them? In fact, one could play Thor with this ability and control something so uncontrollable as weather. Is there a reason mad doctors don't use this laughter to their advantages?
The answer is yes. They put a lot of time and money into their overly complicated plans that it would all be ruined if the hero was electrocuted before putting their plan to effect. Thus why mad doctors never use their laughter as a weapon.
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