Eight Things and the Doctor.
Doctor Who
8. Time Travel
I’m a sucker for Time Travel. There are just so many fascinating things you can do with it, and I think DW takes advantage of quite a few of these. From meet historic personages, to being stuck in time paradoxes, to killing the dinosaurs (I’m still rather WTF about that whole episode, but it was the 80s? Is that an excuse?) to seeing the future and what it could hold, to being unable to do anything because it’s a fixed event in time and you can’t save people. Plus, it’s great fun for sets and costume design if nothing else.
7. Way to Break it Hero
I love this trope. It’s a crazy trope, and probably one I shouldn’t love since it leads to well… the hero breaking things. The Doctor seems especially good at this. Especially when he brings down the government of a Prime Minister who was supposed to bring in Britain’s golden age… Which leads to Harold Saxon becoming PM, as well as the fucker after him who is featured in Children of Earth. Really. Way to Break it Hero.
6. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum… But it’s not a Bad Thing
Too often when you get a long running series, be it comic books or shows, eventually the fans are going to grow up and start writing the stories themselves. Often times, this does not end well as it ends up resembling badly written teenage boy fantasy. But David Tennant is such a fanboy, it’s adorable. Adorable fanboys are surprisingly hard to come by. Not to mention, since the writers are also fans, we get things like the Dalek and Cybermen bitchfight of epic proportions that wraps up season two.
5. Amy Pond
I’ve usually liked the Doctor’s Companions in the Reboot a lot (the earlier ones? It was much more touch and go). But I just adore Amy Pond. I think it’s a mix of her character and how adorable her actress is, and how she just brings it to life. Yeah, she’s more childish than Martha or Donna ever was, but she’s also determined and won’t bend over. She’s a bit more on the wild/crazy side than the others were I think. Not to the point where she’s a throwback to Ace, but that she’s more likely to do something insane than Rose (Like in the Beast Below. There’s some big examples of things Rose would never have done in there, like force the queen to hit the button, or pick the lock when told not to).
4. Openly Gay (Or Pansexual) Character
Who is also male (Often times, especially in Sci-Fi a series will feature a “gay couple” that looks more like fan service for the male fanboys who think two women together is hot than an actual couple). Partly, I just love Jack. Mostly when he’s on Doctor Who, less when he shows up on Torchwood and acts like a moron. He may be a man slut, but several times it’s shown that when he loves someone, he can settle down with them (Often this is in flashbacks, and we got some glimpses of this with Ianto, but, well, that got cut a little short).
3. “You remind me of someone called Marie Antoinette. There’s a Robot Revolution going on out there and you say everything’s fine.”
In other words, the wit, the quotablity of this show. And that one’s from the 70s. You probably don’t even want to know how often I fit Doctor Who quotes into my regular conversations.
2. The Master
As far as recurring villains go, I’m pretty fond of this one, especially ala John Simm. There’s just something about his glee at the suffering of others, and his sheer crazy, and, well, the drums. And, why yes, I do have something for insane villain characters. They’re just so fascinating. And this one dances to “I Can’t Decide.” Though, I am rather fond of some of his earlier incarnations as well.
1. The Doctor
“He’s the Doctor!” “Doctor Who?” I like most of his incarnations, including One even, who’s this bitchy old man. Tom Baker as 4 cracks me up, I wish we could have seen more of 8, and 9, 10, and 11 are all amazing looks at the same core personality. Each time he’s tweaked just a little, from 1963 to now, but he’s still the same person somewhere in there. 10, will of course hold a very special place in my heart, being my “first” doctor, and being played by well, David Tennant.
8. Time Travel
I’m a sucker for Time Travel. There are just so many fascinating things you can do with it, and I think DW takes advantage of quite a few of these. From meet historic personages, to being stuck in time paradoxes, to killing the dinosaurs (I’m still rather WTF about that whole episode, but it was the 80s? Is that an excuse?) to seeing the future and what it could hold, to being unable to do anything because it’s a fixed event in time and you can’t save people. Plus, it’s great fun for sets and costume design if nothing else.
7. Way to Break it Hero
I love this trope. It’s a crazy trope, and probably one I shouldn’t love since it leads to well… the hero breaking things. The Doctor seems especially good at this. Especially when he brings down the government of a Prime Minister who was supposed to bring in Britain’s golden age… Which leads to Harold Saxon becoming PM, as well as the fucker after him who is featured in Children of Earth. Really. Way to Break it Hero.
6. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum… But it’s not a Bad Thing
Too often when you get a long running series, be it comic books or shows, eventually the fans are going to grow up and start writing the stories themselves. Often times, this does not end well as it ends up resembling badly written teenage boy fantasy. But David Tennant is such a fanboy, it’s adorable. Adorable fanboys are surprisingly hard to come by. Not to mention, since the writers are also fans, we get things like the Dalek and Cybermen bitchfight of epic proportions that wraps up season two.
5. Amy Pond
I’ve usually liked the Doctor’s Companions in the Reboot a lot (the earlier ones? It was much more touch and go). But I just adore Amy Pond. I think it’s a mix of her character and how adorable her actress is, and how she just brings it to life. Yeah, she’s more childish than Martha or Donna ever was, but she’s also determined and won’t bend over. She’s a bit more on the wild/crazy side than the others were I think. Not to the point where she’s a throwback to Ace, but that she’s more likely to do something insane than Rose (Like in the Beast Below. There’s some big examples of things Rose would never have done in there, like force the queen to hit the button, or pick the lock when told not to).
4. Openly Gay (Or Pansexual) Character
Who is also male (Often times, especially in Sci-Fi a series will feature a “gay couple” that looks more like fan service for the male fanboys who think two women together is hot than an actual couple). Partly, I just love Jack. Mostly when he’s on Doctor Who, less when he shows up on Torchwood and acts like a moron. He may be a man slut, but several times it’s shown that when he loves someone, he can settle down with them (Often this is in flashbacks, and we got some glimpses of this with Ianto, but, well, that got cut a little short).
3. “You remind me of someone called Marie Antoinette. There’s a Robot Revolution going on out there and you say everything’s fine.”
In other words, the wit, the quotablity of this show. And that one’s from the 70s. You probably don’t even want to know how often I fit Doctor Who quotes into my regular conversations.
2. The Master
As far as recurring villains go, I’m pretty fond of this one, especially ala John Simm. There’s just something about his glee at the suffering of others, and his sheer crazy, and, well, the drums. And, why yes, I do have something for insane villain characters. They’re just so fascinating. And this one dances to “I Can’t Decide.” Though, I am rather fond of some of his earlier incarnations as well.
1. The Doctor
“He’s the Doctor!” “Doctor Who?” I like most of his incarnations, including One even, who’s this bitchy old man. Tom Baker as 4 cracks me up, I wish we could have seen more of 8, and 9, 10, and 11 are all amazing looks at the same core personality. Each time he’s tweaked just a little, from 1963 to now, but he’s still the same person somewhere in there. 10, will of course hold a very special place in my heart, being my “first” doctor, and being played by well, David Tennant.