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Dr Who
I really loved the current series of Dr Who.
I'm sure there's bits I could pick massive holes in and I'm almost worried that accessing the Time Vortex is overpowerful and how do you avoid using it again, but it made *dramatic* sense.
I judge Dr Who by different standards from other SF shows, becasue it is a differnt kind of show. Every show should be judged by the kind of show that it is trying to be. There is hard SF such as Battlestar Galactica; there is fantasy such as Buffy; and there is Dr Who.
Dr Who is about monsters. It's also about big issues. It's about saving the world. Doesn't matter if the Earth is in danger of being totally destroyed virtually every other episode. That's what the show is *about*. What the current series has done is to take that format, make the threats more believable, keep the humour that always helped Dr Who to avoid making itself too seriously, add in better special effects, and still keep enough continuity from the old show that there is a sense of connection to it without being religously bound to it.
I've found Christopher Eccleston's doctor to be arrogant and self-opinionated (which all good Doctors are), quirky, alien, human, good-humoured, capable of intense platonic love, and brilliantly acted.
If they did on Galactica what they've done with Dr Who, I'd be ranting for months about how terrible it was and how the farting aliens were silly and all sorts of other stuff. But this is Dr Who and it does just what it says on the label. I've enjoyed it greatly and I'm looking forward to the next season.
All that, and a bisexual companion who actually gets to kiss both Rose and the Doctor. Yeah! I want an icon of that kiss! Can anyone help?
I'm sure there's bits I could pick massive holes in and I'm almost worried that accessing the Time Vortex is overpowerful and how do you avoid using it again, but it made *dramatic* sense.
I judge Dr Who by different standards from other SF shows, becasue it is a differnt kind of show. Every show should be judged by the kind of show that it is trying to be. There is hard SF such as Battlestar Galactica; there is fantasy such as Buffy; and there is Dr Who.
Dr Who is about monsters. It's also about big issues. It's about saving the world. Doesn't matter if the Earth is in danger of being totally destroyed virtually every other episode. That's what the show is *about*. What the current series has done is to take that format, make the threats more believable, keep the humour that always helped Dr Who to avoid making itself too seriously, add in better special effects, and still keep enough continuity from the old show that there is a sense of connection to it without being religously bound to it.
I've found Christopher Eccleston's doctor to be arrogant and self-opinionated (which all good Doctors are), quirky, alien, human, good-humoured, capable of intense platonic love, and brilliantly acted.
If they did on Galactica what they've done with Dr Who, I'd be ranting for months about how terrible it was and how the farting aliens were silly and all sorts of other stuff. But this is Dr Who and it does just what it says on the label. I've enjoyed it greatly and I'm looking forward to the next season.
All that, and a bisexual companion who actually gets to kiss both Rose and the Doctor. Yeah! I want an icon of that kiss! Can anyone help?
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The Doctor is supposed to have a limited number of regenerations, isn't he? That'll put a pretty firm limit on it. Unless he wants to sacrifice the kind of people he'd trust to get the power and not abuse it.
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I also wasn't sure about Christopher Eccleston's portrayal of the doctor; he was too manic for my liking, but he was just growing into the role at the end.
Still, on the whole, it _was_ Doctor Who and not a pale imitation. I'd still rather see longer episodes, though.