Doctor Who Preview

[richlayers]

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.

Comments

[king-laugh.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy. That looks bad. I mean, seriously bad...

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

I like Time Lords the bad guys. I mean, they were never really all that good...

[richlayers.livejournal.com]

I WANT to see the Doctor hit a Dalek with a stick. So there.

[richlayers.livejournal.com]

Coulda been interesting... Who knows?

[sidhe-etain.livejournal.com]

It bothered me too that after the universal mind-wipe of the whole Master storyline, that there would be "followers" who would ressurect him in the first place...How did they remember what he even was??

Aaaanyway. Some of the episodes from the last season are some of my favorites, so I have to give props there. But they really dropped the ball on these last few episodes. Other than Tennant's final line...that, my friend, was inspired.

[darklingwoods.livejournal.com]

Well I'm very happy to think of Moffat at the helm!

I adore 10 but the last two episodes were not what I was expecting the Time Lords a small part of it. Of course I take all this way to seriously geek that I am ;)

Looking forward to 11 with you!

[richlayers.livejournal.com]

Which episodes were your favorites? Are you counting the regular series and the year of specials as one season, or are you talking about just the specials?

I don't know about the last line. I like it because I think it expresses the complexity of the Doctor's nature -- regenerating and really becoming someone new. On the other hand, I really like that you don't LOSE the Doctor, that he's still the Doctor even if he's re..newed.

[richlayers.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's anything wrong with taking it seriously! I don't really like it when people go into rages about TV shows, but if you dedicate that much time, invest the emotion in caring about the characters, if you will -- then it makes sense to take it SOMEWHAT seriously! :)

[sidhe-etain.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant the last full series. I don't count the specials (in part because I thought, frankly, that they all sucked...every single one)

My favorites are the two parter with the watch, and the series finale, but the latter is a biased answer because I am such a soft-hearted soul, and I loved the way they made it so that Rose and the Doctor (of some sort) could be together. Plus it has Doctor Donna, which I loved. :D

[king-laugh.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think it's far too early to bring back Daleks. Keep them out of it a couple of years, make us miss them. And I think Smith really should have to prove himself before he gets Daleks.