New Dr. Whooooooooooooooo!
HOLY SHIT GUYS.
This might, by some very exciting chance, be my new doctor. 10 was okay, but he was def starting to get on my nerves a bit by the very end. Or possibly it was an overdose of Rusty.
I was particularly annoyed by Rusty's 2/3 count of companions falling for the Doctor - 2.5/3 if you count Jack seriously (which I don't, because Barrowman's chin scares me and that role should really have gone to Neil Patrick Harris?).
What I like about this new setup is that there's something deeper than, say, Martha's initial reason for crushing on the Doctor. She basically sexually imprinted on the guy, so it's 100% more sane that she would be attracted to this crazy, crazy guy. And really, it's sweet. It's like we finally got the happy ending for "The Girl in the Fireplace", which is my favourite episode for certes, bar "Blink".
Another problem with the Rusty era, but for which I also blame everyone including Raptor Jesus, was there not being more Simm!Master. Why was there not a season of Simm, Raptor Jesus? Don't you love us? Why not a whole damn evil spin-off show? Like Torchwood or Sarah Jane, but just focusing on the Master being CRAAAAAZAY?
Why?
Anyway, I digress: 11th Doctor!
He is true to the nerdy roots, which makes me very very happy. For the love of god, he wears tweed. He is, of course, frighteningly boyish, with a bit of androgyny thrown in, but physical appearance isn't all that important in the Doctor. Sure, 11, 10, and 5 tend towards the edible and pleasantly corruptible sort of face, but that is but a bonus. What is necessary is the certain level of manic energy - the "mad man with a box" sine qua non - and the intangible Doctorness. Judging 11 from one episode only, I think he's got it.
A style note: the RETRONESS OF IT ALL.
He looks like he's taking dressing tips from the 1-4 set. I mean, BOWTIE. Aaand I already see a proto-bowtie kink forming in the fandom. It's predictable, as basically Dr. Who fandom takes any distinguishing thing and makes it a kink (Doctor/TARDIS=OTP), but I am officially calling it now:
There will be kink.
It will centre around the bowtie.
It will, in all probability, be fucking awesome.
But, for those of you who are not privy to my everyday rambling theorisings on bad movies, which I love, the new Doctor's screwdriver deliberately upset my....
Colour-coding of Sci-fi Fancy Technology Theory: Time periods have their own ideas of what "fancy" and "futuristic" looks like. Back in the day, it used to be just grey screens with black writing. Then it was digital green. Then it was brightly coloured for a brief, LSD-fuelled moment. Now, the colour of fancy technology is light blue.
Corollary of Alignment: These basic rules are subject to the whims of a person's alignment and lighting requirements. Green nowadays can also mean "organic evil", for example. Red is definitely bad. But blue can also be the tool of creepy government organisations (two by two...).
But, the whole point of that ramble was to say that, instead of blue, the new, incredibly retro doctor's screwdriver is GREEN. Also he has a typewriter keyboard and one of those old clocks with the flappy number changing things.
YAY EVERYTHING!
That is all.
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