Doctor Who Meme: Day 1.

[hermione_vader]

So I did some searching, and I found a 30-day Doctor Who meme.  I swear I'll finish this one.  I thought of doing the 30-day music meme, but my musical taste is so eclectic that I could never choose.  Doctor Who is so much easier to have opinions about.

Thankfully, this is fairly New!Who centric.  It's not that I don't like Classic!Who, but I've

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[hermione_vader]

I liked "The Next Doctor" because it had really good supporting characters and that quick little homage to all ten Doctors, but yeah, the other two were crazy. "Planet of the Dead" was nothing but filler, and not even really good filler; also, Lady Christina came across as remarkably unsympathetic---I wanted to like her, but I couldn't. "The Waters of Mars" was better---Adelaide Brooke was a really good character---but Ten just seemed like such an insane, egotistical jerk by the end that I wasn't satisfied. I'm not even sure what the point of the specials was and why they couldn't just have Ten regenerated and head into Season 5 a year earlier. I guess RTD just wanted a lot of fanfare when he left.

Eh, I'm mostly okay with that, because he was around for three seasons as opposed to one, and he was a really popular Doctor.
Well, Tom Baker was around for seven years, and he just got to watch his companions flash before his eyes really quickly. And it makes me think, "Is Eleven going to get an ending like that? Will every Doctor have to have that now?" Nine's regeneration was treated as a good, simple rebirth (like a phoenix) borne out of heroic sacrifice, whereas Ten's seemed like The End Of All Things...even though it wasn't.