My extremely, 'OMG! You have no life!!!' long "Doctor Who" post
I promised a long Doctor Who post and BOY! did I deliver. This baby was originally one post, then I split it into four posts, then I decided to go back and put it in one post. I'm done now, no more re-arranging. So it's just all together in one looooooooong, fell swoop. Phew
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I admit, I'm a bit opposite you in that I love Ten/Rose way more than Nine/Rose; I actually had a really hard time buying Nine/Rose before 'Parting of the Ways' ::ducks::. But Ten/Rose worked for me from the very very start. I think I'm one of the few people in the fandom that absolutely loves the fact that together they're a bit giddy and thoughtless in the face of death. I loved that because it seemed so real to me. I've always imagined the Doctor as sort of alien and thoughtless and jaded, so that part of their dynamic always worked for me. I liked the way he and Rose see the universe in a way that is very much the same.
I think it's probably because Ten is much more in line with the way I like my heroes than Nine is. My favorite male protagonists are almost always shouty and slightly insane, with lots of sharp edges and moments of exuberant joy tempered with moments of real darkness. John Crichton from Farscape, Josh Lyman from West Wing, they're all very much in the same vein as Ten. I am incredibly predictable. I can definitely see the appeal of Eccleston's Doctor; he does have this odd sort of innocence, and he plays everything so calmly and quietly but in a way that resonates with hidden emotional depths. He unfortuntely just didn't hit my narrative kinks the way Ten does.
I agree about the third season; it had some good episodes and some weak ones, but I was just so uncomfortable with having to watch Martha pine over the Doctor and having to watch him snub her repeatedly, it kind of put a damper on my enjoyment of it. 'Blink' was fab, though. And I love 'Utopia.' 'Utopia' may actually be my favorite episode aside from 'Doomsday.' The scene with the Doctor and Jack hashing it out? AMAZING. Great scripting, great performances, just fucking great. And the fobwatch reveal was so wonderfully done.
I actually didn't mind the stupidness of Sound of Drums/LOTL because I LOVE Simm-Master so much, and I loved Ten/Martha/Jack together. That entire arc is worth it for me just because of the Master/Doctor telephone conversation. It gave me chills.
I think it's really too bad that we never got the connection to Martha's family that we got to Rose's and that we're currently getting to Donna's. Jackie and Mickey were so lovingly drawn, and they never gave the Joneses that same kind of development, I think. Yet another mistake they made with poor Martha there.
Wow, okay, that was long. Thanks for the meta! I love hearing other people's takes on this stuff. It's so interesting to see how other people think about this stuff.
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