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May. 9th, 2005 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
usernamenumberWow, the new Doctor Who series makes me so happy. They've done some things that I'm not crazy about, but even those I have to admit they've done really well. A while ago I read an article by someone who had previewed the sixth episode, Dalek, and said that it was not just the best Dalek episode ever, but also one of the best DW episodes period. Then, a few days after it came out a friend of mine, who is the only person I know who (that I am aware of) knows as much or more about that show than I do, said the same thing. I just got around to watching it, over a week after it came out, and damn, it was good. Without giving anything away let me just say that in some ways it was another instance of them doing something that, had it simply been outlined to me, I would have thought was an awful, awful idea. But they actually did it really well. Then I watched the 7th ep, which just came out, and it has Simon Pegg (the guy from Spaced and Shawn of the Dead) as the villain! Huzzah! Simon Pegg makes me so very, very happy (thanks again to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mlechan for introducing me to him) and his performance was delightful. I mean, come on,
Aaawww yeah!
If any of you are into Doctor Who and haven't seen it yet, head over to tvtorrents.com and check it out (damn you DW for not being legitimately available out here!!). I am really, really starting to love Eccleston's Doctor and Rose is already one of my favorite companions. I was talking toheiligekuh recently about how, during college, I thought I'd grown out of the show. Everything needed to be serious, hard science fiction and even at its best Doctor Who was pretty fluffy. But the new series has really reminded me of why Doctor Who is such a fun show, even when it isn't necessarily good sci-fi. Like early Red Dwarf it is a character-driven show where the plots are only there to give a cast of well-chemistried, interesting characters a premise around which to interact. It's especially interesting when there's a fun villain like Pegg (damn them all forever if they don't bring back my beloved Master... in fact, make Pegg the next Master, that would be fantastic!).
The character-driven elements of the show have been helped by the fact that throughout the new series (but especially in the last several episodes) Eccleston and the writers have shown a real understanding of what makes the Doctor work: He's fanatically idealistic and yet arguably the wisest being in the universe. Literally no one knows better than him how utterly meaningless and doomed every cause that he fights for is and yet he holds himself to perfection. Failure eats away at him because to do anything less than succeed is to be party to destruction, to the unthinkable for an idealist. When you see the Doctor holding a gun, actually ready to shoot something, and the writers make it believable, it just tears your heart out, especially after Eccleston's beautiful reaction to Rose's rebuff when she sees him. The Doctor has been around off-and-on for over forty years and 9 personas. But despite this, the Doctor is not really a complex character. Really, he's kind of simple and that's the appeal. You can get the gist of him in an episode, but the more you've seen, the more things like his "I tried!" line in the pilot mean to you.
And yes, before anyone tells me, I know I'm making to much of this, that the show isn't *that* good, but there's something about it that always leaves me feeling really positive, so I wanted to share. And there it is.
/fanboy
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Another great thing the new series has brought with it: icons (none of which are mine, I just like them). =:)
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mlechan for introducing me to him) and his performance was delightful. I mean, come on,Aaawww yeah!
If any of you are into Doctor Who and haven't seen it yet, head over to tvtorrents.com and check it out (damn you DW for not being legitimately available out here!!). I am really, really starting to love Eccleston's Doctor and Rose is already one of my favorite companions. I was talking to
heiligekuh recently about how, during college, I thought I'd grown out of the show. Everything needed to be serious, hard science fiction and even at its best Doctor Who was pretty fluffy. But the new series has really reminded me of why Doctor Who is such a fun show, even when it isn't necessarily good sci-fi. Like early Red Dwarf it is a character-driven show where the plots are only there to give a cast of well-chemistried, interesting characters a premise around which to interact. It's especially interesting when there's a fun villain like Pegg (damn them all forever if they don't bring back my beloved Master... in fact, make Pegg the next Master, that would be fantastic!). The character-driven elements of the show have been helped by the fact that throughout the new series (but especially in the last several episodes) Eccleston and the writers have shown a real understanding of what makes the Doctor work: He's fanatically idealistic and yet arguably the wisest being in the universe. Literally no one knows better than him how utterly meaningless and doomed every cause that he fights for is and yet he holds himself to perfection. Failure eats away at him because to do anything less than succeed is to be party to destruction, to the unthinkable for an idealist. When you see the Doctor holding a gun, actually ready to shoot something, and the writers make it believable, it just tears your heart out, especially after Eccleston's beautiful reaction to Rose's rebuff when she sees him. The Doctor has been around off-and-on for over forty years and 9 personas. But despite this, the Doctor is not really a complex character. Really, he's kind of simple and that's the appeal. You can get the gist of him in an episode, but the more you've seen, the more things like his "I tried!" line in the pilot mean to you.
And yes, before anyone tells me, I know I'm making to much of this, that the show isn't *that* good, but there's something about it that always leaves me feeling really positive, so I wanted to share. And there it is.
/fanboy
Edit:
Another great thing the new series has brought with it: icons (none of which are mine, I just like them). =:)
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I love the "WOOOOO EEEEEE OOOOOOO!" icon!