Doctor Who Preview

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPUF8an-XE

Umm, yes please!

Some minor thoughts:
Matt Smith sure looks like a happy Doctor. Or maybe it's just that Moffat is a very happy writer? Anyway, the emo stuff can only go on for so long before a show starts to make me want to kill myself.

The thing that bugged me about the last 2 episodes was that most of the time Doctor Who is so much better about not doing reboot-from-scratch writing at the end of episodes. (Forget about the Doctor-reboots, that's a whole other thing.) I want the development/changes from any particular episode to affect things from that point on. When aliens made themselves known to Earth, there wasn't a mass hallucination excuse that people made to explain it all away. In the DW universe, we now know that aliens exist. When a Companion gets tired of the Doctor or travelling, she's not just *poof* okay with it in the next episode -- people move on, new people become part of the show... and much like real life, developments don't usually suddenly stumble backwards to leave us where we were before the changes hit.

(I am only really considering the new series; I haven't seen enough of the old stuff to integrate that into this particular gripe. And as far as TV series go, the new stuff pretty well stands on its own, anyway.)

So when the Time Lords are coming back, don't sissy out and make them suddenly not come back. Oh, the world goes on as we know it! Oh, life returns to normal! I mean, we've done 5 years of this DW/Timelordless world -- why NOT change it up? Even if they're the bad guys now? Why would you write that in just to say "Err, no, just kidding?"

Bah.

Anyway, I didn't completely hate the last year of episodes; in fact I found things to like about all of them, some more than others. But I am QUITE looking forward to the change.