Happy New Year! (And 1/1/11, which makes this icon doubly meaningful!)
Irrelevant to the title of this post (I have very few reflections on 2010: it was, for the most part, a great year. As for 2011, I hope it brings me a job and just as much fun, but I really hate that number for bizarre and unexplained reasons):
I was walking through the TV room downstairs and my dad, for some reason, was just beginning to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special from this year. He's never seen the show before and has never shown any interest in it; he kind of brushes it off when my sister and I get all giddy over it. Which is stupid: my dad is a HUGE nerd and should love this kind of show, but he's never seen it. (He likes Community and 30 Rock best, plus things like The West Wing. I certainly can't fault his taste, even if he doesn't listen to me about silly heartfelt British sci-fi children's shows.) I don't think he was even planning on watching it all the way through, but it happened to be on.
So, my sister and I sat down and started watching with him. I kept giggling almost before funny lines, because I remembered them and had that thing where you want the people you're watching with to find the same things funny. He's hard to judge, though: he doesn't react as enthusiastically as I do, but he chuckled a few times.
Now, the thing is, as much as I absolutely adore Matt Smith and Eleven, this season has been weaker than a lot of the previous ones. And the Christmas specials are usually kind of silly and pointless and not among the best episodes, so while they're great fun, I'd never give them to someone as their introduction to the series. (For Eleven, it'd be The Lodger, because it's just straight-up excellent and one of the funniest episodes yet. Also, shower scenes. Then, if they didn't immediately want to watch the season in order, it'd be the Van Gogh one, because it is also excellent and has a nice touch of beautiful pathos to counterbalance the sweetness and lightheartedness of The Lodger, and to show the range of the series. If after those two they're not hooked, well, then there's no hope for them.)
But my dad's reaction, at the end of the episode? "That was GREAT."
Sometimes it's really, really obvious where I came from.
PS: I had missed the line, "It's that or go into your room and invent a new kind of screwdriver." Hee! Oh, Doctor. (I'd also missed, "Finally, a lie too big," but that was pointed out to me by teenwitch77.)
I was walking through the TV room downstairs and my dad, for some reason, was just beginning to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special from this year. He's never seen the show before and has never shown any interest in it; he kind of brushes it off when my sister and I get all giddy over it. Which is stupid: my dad is a HUGE nerd and should love this kind of show, but he's never seen it. (He likes Community and 30 Rock best, plus things like The West Wing. I certainly can't fault his taste, even if he doesn't listen to me about silly heartfelt British sci-fi children's shows.) I don't think he was even planning on watching it all the way through, but it happened to be on.
So, my sister and I sat down and started watching with him. I kept giggling almost before funny lines, because I remembered them and had that thing where you want the people you're watching with to find the same things funny. He's hard to judge, though: he doesn't react as enthusiastically as I do, but he chuckled a few times.
Now, the thing is, as much as I absolutely adore Matt Smith and Eleven, this season has been weaker than a lot of the previous ones. And the Christmas specials are usually kind of silly and pointless and not among the best episodes, so while they're great fun, I'd never give them to someone as their introduction to the series. (For Eleven, it'd be The Lodger, because it's just straight-up excellent and one of the funniest episodes yet. Also, shower scenes. Then, if they didn't immediately want to watch the season in order, it'd be the Van Gogh one, because it is also excellent and has a nice touch of beautiful pathos to counterbalance the sweetness and lightheartedness of The Lodger, and to show the range of the series. If after those two they're not hooked, well, then there's no hope for them.)
But my dad's reaction, at the end of the episode? "That was GREAT."
Sometimes it's really, really obvious where I came from.
PS: I had missed the line, "It's that or go into your room and invent a new kind of screwdriver." Hee! Oh, Doctor. (I'd also missed, "Finally, a lie too big," but that was pointed out to me by teenwitch77.)