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elo_sf shared with me this link, Where's the Fun? Doctor Who Thoughts, and interesting essay on the latest season. I agree with many of the author's points but I strongly disagree with her conclusion that her disinterest in the season may come down to original series vs. new series viewing.
I'm an old school fan, I was delighted by the relaunch and grew to enjoy it despite the different take on the Doctor from what I was used to. Eccleston and Tennant were much more...touchy-feely shall we say than the rather distant, alien Doctor I grew up with. And I hear a lot of people comparing Smith to Troughton and even Baker I, and I get what they're saying. Smith does definitely play his Doctor as a Gallifreyan, someone profoundly aware of the fact that he is an alien and decidedly unlikely to crush on his companion. But the way he plays it doesn't so much remind me of Tom Baker as that...other one. You know, that Collin fellow. And that's what turns me off. I mean sure every Doctor can be a dick, it's part and parcel of always being the smartest guy in the room, but Smith's Doctor is a dick constantly.
I think I could've forgiven a lot of that and just rolled with a character that seemed to be entirely made up of quirks, catch phrases and a list of generally annoying personality traits if he'd at least had an interesting, appealing companion. I mean set him up with a Donna Nobel and I'm in. But throw an even more annoying and pathetic version of Martha Jones in the mix? No, way, un-uh, count me out.
Anyway, give it a read if you've seen the season or don't care too much about being spoiled. The author's take on Moffat is pretty much dead-on.
And thanks tomoonlightnrain I share with you my new favorite ST:ToS fanvid:
elo_sf shared with me this link, Where's the Fun? Doctor Who Thoughts, and interesting essay on the latest season. I agree with many of the author's points but I strongly disagree with her conclusion that her disinterest in the season may come down to original series vs. new series viewing.I'm an old school fan, I was delighted by the relaunch and grew to enjoy it despite the different take on the Doctor from what I was used to. Eccleston and Tennant were much more...touchy-feely shall we say than the rather distant, alien Doctor I grew up with. And I hear a lot of people comparing Smith to Troughton and even Baker I, and I get what they're saying. Smith does definitely play his Doctor as a Gallifreyan, someone profoundly aware of the fact that he is an alien and decidedly unlikely to crush on his companion. But the way he plays it doesn't so much remind me of Tom Baker as that...other one. You know, that Collin fellow. And that's what turns me off. I mean sure every Doctor can be a dick, it's part and parcel of always being the smartest guy in the room, but Smith's Doctor is a dick constantly.
I think I could've forgiven a lot of that and just rolled with a character that seemed to be entirely made up of quirks, catch phrases and a list of generally annoying personality traits if he'd at least had an interesting, appealing companion. I mean set him up with a Donna Nobel and I'm in. But throw an even more annoying and pathetic version of Martha Jones in the mix? No, way, un-uh, count me out.
Anyway, give it a read if you've seen the season or don't care too much about being spoiled. The author's take on Moffat is pretty much dead-on.
And thanks to
moonlightnrain I share with you my new favorite ST:ToS fanvid:
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Date: 2010-07-01 10:43 pm (UTC)I just, yeah. I don't think I'll be going back to watch this, for just so many reasons. Amy drives me completely insane (I know she's just there in those tiny skirts for the lads and the dads, but even Jim comments on how ridiculous they are), River became uninteresting, the Doctor is just a domineering jackass who uses people (I will never, ever get past the fact that he just STOLE SOMEONE'S CLOTHES in the first episode, wtf), I just, I'm done.
Donna made 4th series pretty awesome for me, after deeply disliking Martha, and I was able to forgive a great deal of silliness for my sheer adoration of Tennant...but even that wore thin by the end, I didn't enjoy the specials at all. Not liking either of the main characters here kinda throws me out of it entirely.
Oh, and another quibble: I don't want the Boyfriend Doctor template, in particular--Nine seemed like a lot of fun to run around with, but it was Ten I wanted to drag off by the hair, and that was specifically Tennant-based. Nine was friendly, but still fairly distant because of his vulnerability, and even what he had with Rose felt more like a "best mate" thing than not; I was kind of surprised by the "great love song" of series two.
I found some of the comments pretty interesting, too, though had to laugh at the one guy who just went on about how he's a fan, and she should be happy for people who like the show now...without mentioning a single thing he actually liked about it, himself.
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Date: 2010-07-02 01:34 am (UTC)As for Nine I don't see him as the boyfriend model either, he was just too broken. He clung to Rose and Jack and even Mickey and Jackie as *family*, as a reason to hold on and keep going. Ten was definitely the boyfriend for Rose and the bad boyfriend for Martha, then was actually allowed to mature a bit and when he teamed up with Donna and be a friend.