The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special

[justalurkr]

[So, that happened.]

I've read one essay about how wonderful it was and one essay about how betrayed a fan of the new show found herself feeling.

I quite enjoyed it save for two things:

1. Why does Companion Distress!Face have to be the impetus to finding another way? Especially the (to me) Mary Sue Perfect Companion?2. As Christopher Eccleston is quite literally

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[memprime]

This is one of the few companions I want to beat with something hard. She is seriously a Mary Sue.

In one of the books of the series About Time, there's a long essay about why Christopher Eccleston left. (The book also has a good and funny essay about what should be considered a Doctor Who companion.)

Hurt is called the 'War Doctor'. I think this is to set precedent so that when they run out of numbers, they can just start over, or say that certain ones don't count or something. Remember the Master in the original series? Yeah, like that...

[justalurkr]

I just caught up with this and (a) went in search of the book and (b) double-snickered over the reckoning in the Christmas special.

Very much what I remember of the Master after his 12 regenerations, actually.

[memprime]

OMG, did you watch the Christmas special?