The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Longish Rant About Doctor Who
All right, so let me preface this with saying I am TERRIBLE about spoilers.
As in, I myself READ them. Yes, that's right - I am an impatient lil' brat and I ruin things for myself!!
So, knowing that, you can imagine how I feel as I watch Doctor Who, which I am now head over heels in love with.
Like, serious, serious love.
It's not like I've forgotten FOTC (Bret/Jemaine!) or BBT (Sheldon/Penny!), and I still have plenty other things I've sampled recently and loved (Chuck! Reaper!)
But DOCTOR WHO.
It's like Buffy all over again.
I mean, seriously, I haven't felt this way about a show, about a fandom, in a long, long time.
Why?
Because this whole show is turning me inside out.
I am torn with all these different emotions! They roll through me, driving me bonkers!
Here I go, watching Series 1 and thinking to myself - ehh, the Ninth Doctor is all right. He's not cute or anything. And I don't want him with Rose like that, but he's smart and smart-mouthed and I like him but, oh, hey David Tennant is so cute, so I'll just wait him out but, oh no, more episodes I watch I grow to like him then - BAM - he's gone, no Ninth Doctor anymore, and I miss him!!!
So then into Series 2 and hey, guess what? Not sure I can like the Tenth Doctor because I grew to love the Ninth and how dare he leave but - oh - yeah - right - okay, David Tennant is ador - frickin - able! THE SUIT! THE SNEAKERS! THE GLASSES! And with ROSE! Oh my god! New OTP! And, and, oh and!!:
'The Satan Pit'
THE DOCTOR: But if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her!
♥♥♥
So. MUCH. LOVE.
Them together blows my mind and oh god - it's going to be like Season 2 of Buffy ALL OVER AGAIN BECAUSE I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS AND NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Buffy Season 2 = Buffy + Angel + him being free of Angelus a little too late + stabbing him in the heart to close pit to hell - happy ending = ME SOBBING
Doctor Who Series 2 = Tenth Doctor + Rose + saving the world but being too late to get across breach + final scene - happy ending = ME SOBBING
And I'm on the episode 'Fear Her' but dragging my feet because I don't want to get to the end! I don't want Rose not with the Doctor! I don't, I don't, I don't! *stomps feet like 5-year old and throws equivocal tantrum*
And, of course being so bad with spoilers, I HAD to jump to Series 4 and it ends in the way where Rose finally gets with the Tenth Doctor but it's NOT the Tenth Doctor but it IS but it was the only way to do it but not really 'cause I thought of, what feels like, 12 million other ways they could have done it that would have been better (as it were) and left me more satisfied and is she happy with alt!Tenth!human!Doctor or not (?!?) and do they have babies (?!?) and what about regular Tenth Doctor he's so ALONE and he's going to become Eleventh Doctor and not even BE David Tennate anymore anyway and GRAAHHHH!!! *spasms, foaming at mouth, etc*
AND I WANT TO WRITE FIIIIIICCC!
But would anyone read Tenth Doctor/Rose fic by me and like it and oh yeah, still have some FOTC (Death?!fic) and BBT (Penny/Sheldon 1sentence) fics to do and I AM STILL WORKING ALL THE TIME!!!
So, in conclusion, this show is driving me quite mad! ;-P
Please forgive all the capslockery and major ramblings but I NEEDED to get this OUT.
And oh yeah - I am OFF Thursday after my 9-Day-Work Stretch but I DO work July 4th ( 7PM - 11PM LUCKY ME _sarcasm sign here_ ) but then my manager is back from his MONTH vacation, so hopefully things will go back to some sembalance of normal...