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May. 27th, 2012 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranI may have just OD'd on Doctor Who. See, the thing is, I got into the series completely backwards.* I started with Torchwood, then only started watching Doctor Who with series 5 of the new run. So, as far as I'm concerned, the Doctor has always been played by Matt Smith, with Amy as his Companion, later joined by Rory. And, well, the show has been on hiatus for awhile, gearing up for the 50th anniversary (fifty years! Good heavens above, that's what I call a long-runner, even if it hasn't been going constantly for all fifty of those years). So I decided to catch up on the canon gap in my knowledge and, for the sake of my sanity, to stick to the 21st century version of it, aka New Who.
The good news: I can get the series via interlibrary loan. Free watchings!
The bad news: It's only available as season box sets, and DVDs, whether a box set or single, can only be checked out for a week at a time. Interlibrary loans are non-renewable.
So I've been watching two or three episodes a night. There were a couple squee moments where I recognized Tosh and what I can only assume is some ancestor of Gwen (a 19th century maid named Gwendolyn, played by the same actress) and, of course, when Captain Jack made his first appearance. I've finally cottoned on to why Daleks are supposed to be so scary, although I still have trouble taking them entirely seriously. I think it's a combination of the voice and the fact that they're designed so that if they drop something on the floor, I have no idea how they would pick it up. Did I mention the voice? I'm sorry, but they really do sound hilarious. And although it took me a couple episodes, Nine really grew on me as the Doctor, and if Rose sticks around for another few episodes, I won't complain.
I think I'll have to wait a bit until I check out the next season, though. Much as I love Doctor Who, thirteen episodes plus a few hours of Confidentials is a lot for just one week.
Also, I am glad I didn't watch this when it first came out, as I would've been working at Sears at the time, and I often had to come in early on Sundays to change the shoe and jewelry sale signs. Hanging out in a dark store, no one else around and surrounded by manequins … not something I'd relish after watching the first episode.
*Note that I am very good at doing this. I got into Mega Man via Bob and George, which I only started reading because I was archive binging on an X-Men Evolution sprite comic that kept referencing it. Speaking of X-Men Evolution, that was my intro into comics fandom, which wouldn't be quite so unusual if not for the fact that I was, like, twenty and therefore the wrong age and probably the wrong gender for that series' target audience.
The good news: I can get the series via interlibrary loan. Free watchings!
The bad news: It's only available as season box sets, and DVDs, whether a box set or single, can only be checked out for a week at a time. Interlibrary loans are non-renewable.
So I've been watching two or three episodes a night. There were a couple squee moments where I recognized Tosh and what I can only assume is some ancestor of Gwen (a 19th century maid named Gwendolyn, played by the same actress) and, of course, when Captain Jack made his first appearance. I've finally cottoned on to why Daleks are supposed to be so scary, although I still have trouble taking them entirely seriously. I think it's a combination of the voice and the fact that they're designed so that if they drop something on the floor, I have no idea how they would pick it up. Did I mention the voice? I'm sorry, but they really do sound hilarious. And although it took me a couple episodes, Nine really grew on me as the Doctor, and if Rose sticks around for another few episodes, I won't complain.
I think I'll have to wait a bit until I check out the next season, though. Much as I love Doctor Who, thirteen episodes plus a few hours of Confidentials is a lot for just one week.
Also, I am glad I didn't watch this when it first came out, as I would've been working at Sears at the time, and I often had to come in early on Sundays to change the shoe and jewelry sale signs. Hanging out in a dark store, no one else around and surrounded by manequins … not something I'd relish after watching the first episode.
*Note that I am very good at doing this. I got into Mega Man via Bob and George, which I only started reading because I was archive binging on an X-Men Evolution sprite comic that kept referencing it. Speaking of X-Men Evolution, that was my intro into comics fandom, which wouldn't be quite so unusual if not for the fact that I was, like, twenty and therefore the wrong age and probably the wrong gender for that series' target audience.
