Beans are Evil
Or - My Obligatory New Doctor Who Post
The new season of Doctor Who started this past Saturday, but Daniel and I didn't get to watch it until Sunday afternoon. I could have watched it without him (and almost accidentally did) but I held out. I'm glad we watched it together though. I was cautiously hopeful about the new series/new Doctor, but I'm feeling much more confident about it now. Simple answer? I like it, a lot more than I thought I would, and I think I will continue to like it.
As someone else on my Friends List said, way to go breaking my heart tiny Amelia. She was quiet awesome though. I read that the girl that played her is grown-up Amy's (the actress though) cousin and had never acted before. I would have loved to have seen The Raggedy Doctor tripping through time and space with this little no nonsense kid.
I felt for her though. It's obvious that Amy is supposed to be the one you identify with and experience the story through, that's the job of the Companion on the show. I think Moffat really hit upon something her though. Fandom in general is kind of this living breathing thing where people write, and craft, and do as they experience the show together, and Amy has done all of that. I love that her whole town knew about The Raggedy Doctor, and that she did comics, and crafts, and made her friends dress up and act it out. Me and her would get along great.
Another thing that I noticed about Amy is that right away it's mentioned that she doesn't have a mom and dad, just an aunt, and she's not fond of the aunt. I don't think we'll be having Christmas crackers around the table with this Doctor or companion. I didn't mind the domestic so much, but I don't think I'm going to miss it much either.
So! New Doctor. Eleven (wow that feels weird to type) is still cooking for me. There were some brilliant bits with him. I really enjoyed the whole falling over and don't know who I am yet thing and the food bit was hilarious to me. There were a few great Doctor moments in the episode that kind of had to happen. It's just not Doctor Who until he's righteously yelling at the alien that wants to blow up Earth. I love that he's keeping the whole Defender of Earth thing (for now at least). I think that this Doctor is going to be more of a doing Doctor. I look back on Ten (and I love Ten, please don't misunderstand me. I love him so much.) and Ten was the Doctor that ran. He ran through the whole series away from everyone and everything. I'm looking forward to seeing Eleven face things differently.
The Coming Soon trailer at the end of the episode looked awesome and actually got me excited about the whole upcoming season. I think there's going to be an Arc (what with the whole cheesy prophecy thing), but I also think that given we've already seen Cybermen, Daleks, and Weeping Angels in the trailer they're not going to be the important things. I want something new. Or something really old that I haven't seen yet. And was that Van Gogh? Because I'm pretty sure it was Van Gogh.
So overall, I like it, I'm excited about more, I love the new companion so far, and the new Doctor is still cooking for me.
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The new season of Doctor Who started this past Saturday, but Daniel and I didn't get to watch it until Sunday afternoon. I could have watched it without him (and almost accidentally did) but I held out. I'm glad we watched it together though. I was cautiously hopeful about the new series/new Doctor, but I'm feeling much more confident about it now. Simple answer? I like it, a lot more than I thought I would, and I think I will continue to like it.
As someone else on my Friends List said, way to go breaking my heart tiny Amelia. She was quiet awesome though. I read that the girl that played her is grown-up Amy's (the actress though) cousin and had never acted before. I would have loved to have seen The Raggedy Doctor tripping through time and space with this little no nonsense kid.
I felt for her though. It's obvious that Amy is supposed to be the one you identify with and experience the story through, that's the job of the Companion on the show. I think Moffat really hit upon something her though. Fandom in general is kind of this living breathing thing where people write, and craft, and do as they experience the show together, and Amy has done all of that. I love that her whole town knew about The Raggedy Doctor, and that she did comics, and crafts, and made her friends dress up and act it out. Me and her would get along great.
Another thing that I noticed about Amy is that right away it's mentioned that she doesn't have a mom and dad, just an aunt, and she's not fond of the aunt. I don't think we'll be having Christmas crackers around the table with this Doctor or companion. I didn't mind the domestic so much, but I don't think I'm going to miss it much either.
So! New Doctor. Eleven (wow that feels weird to type) is still cooking for me. There were some brilliant bits with him. I really enjoyed the whole falling over and don't know who I am yet thing and the food bit was hilarious to me. There were a few great Doctor moments in the episode that kind of had to happen. It's just not Doctor Who until he's righteously yelling at the alien that wants to blow up Earth. I love that he's keeping the whole Defender of Earth thing (for now at least). I think that this Doctor is going to be more of a doing Doctor. I look back on Ten (and I love Ten, please don't misunderstand me. I love him so much.) and Ten was the Doctor that ran. He ran through the whole series away from everyone and everything. I'm looking forward to seeing Eleven face things differently.
The Coming Soon trailer at the end of the episode looked awesome and actually got me excited about the whole upcoming season. I think there's going to be an Arc (what with the whole cheesy prophecy thing), but I also think that given we've already seen Cybermen, Daleks, and Weeping Angels in the trailer they're not going to be the important things. I want something new. Or something really old that I haven't seen yet. And was that Van Gogh? Because I'm pretty sure it was Van Gogh.
So overall, I like it, I'm excited about more, I love the new companion so far, and the new Doctor is still cooking for me.
This entry was originally posted at http://blueinsideout.dreamwidth.org/174723.html. Please comment there using OpenID.