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lavender-lizzy · 5 years

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Okay, here's the thing. Long rant about Dr Who coming.

I had known that Dr Who was a big thing for a long time, and I always thought I should watch it some day. British TV show? Check. Time travel? Check. Show references everywhere? Check. So a few years ago (I can't remember whether it was 2011 or 2012) at the beginning of the year, I watched a few episodes of the first series -2005, 9th doctor- and, luckily, they were broadcasting those very episodes on TV. I enjoyed them, but what happened is, I had exams and classes and could not keep up with the times at which they were airing the episodes on TV and I thought: I have to watch the whole thing when I have time.

Time went by, and, only last summer I started watching it again. And I loved the first series. Some people are all like 'oh get through the first one with the ridiculous monsters and you'll get to the good ones'. But the first series I so special to me, I rewatched all the episodes, and Nine is definitely MY doctor. I just KNOW he will always be.

Now, when I first started watching I already knew David Tennant, and by last year I had seen him in various films and TV shows. I was expecting to love him the most: but you know how this thing goes and so I kept thinking 'Oh you are NOT the Doctor' for a good amount of episodes. I eventually not only accepted him, but also loved him in the role. (I cried so much during his series, and I still can’t accept he isn’t the Doctor anymore).

And then... I knew there was a big change waiting for me: no more RTD, new Doctor, new companions. One of my best friends started to watch the series with Eleven and he is her favourite, so I thought ‘it can't be that bad’. I personally liked the first three series of Sherlock, while considering Moffat as a Dr Who writer, during RTD’s run, I loved “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances” and “Blink”, but didn’t like and still can’t stand “The Girl in the Fireplace” (I know, big fan favourite, but for many reasons I really don’t like it).

I started watching series 5. I basically hated the Doctor in the first episode, but, as I got used to him, I thought he was okay. I did not like him nearly as much as I liked the Ninth and Tenth incarnations of the Doctor, but that was ‘normal, I thought, I cannot like all of them the same way’. The thing is, on top of that, I don’t like the companions. While I like the actor who plays Rory, I feel pity for him and he is kind of a ‘meh’ character; Amy and River, on the other hand, are just stereotipically ‘sassy and sexy’ and they both get on my nerves. Series 5 was just ‘okay’ to me. I thought Rose was annoying at first, but I grew to love her, and I love Martha and Donna. And I like Captain Jack, and Mickey, and Jackie. I am not writing why I think they’re great and interesting characters with their flaws and virtues, because this is already long enough. I do not feel any connection to the companions anymore, with Amy, Rory and River.

With previous series (even though there are a couple of episodes I did not like) I always wanted to keep watching, I felt the urge to press play and watch another episode. With series 5 this just did not happen. I let time pass between one episode and the other. The only episode I absolutely, totally loved was “Vincent and the Doctor”. It was beautiful and made me cry, and at that point I thought ‘okay, this is the turning point, now it’ll start getting better’. Except that, for me, it didn’t. I watched up to episode 4 of series 6, if I am not mistaken. I thought some episodes were ok, others I did not really like or care about, others, like “The Doctor’s Wife”, are rather interesting. As usual, there are always good actors I recognise from other tv shows, which I am always happy about. I also liked the Christmas episode (A Christmas Carol), but that’s about it.

Many people say Moffat episodes ‘look’ way better than the older ones, but to be honest, I’d rather have characters and a plot that I enjoy, rather than scenes that look prettier or smoother or not as ‘ridiculous’. Other people say that RTD-era episodes were more ‘sentimental’, while Moffat-era episodes are more ‘complex’, sort of like puzzles. I don’t necessarily agree, but if that’s what you think it is, then I am sentimental as well.

The historical episodes also let me down a bit: as I said, I loved “Vincent and the Doctor” and I liked “A Christmas Carol”, but I am not a big fan of ‘The Vampires of Venice” or “Victory of the Daleks”. In previous series, I adored the historical episodes (even the underrated “The Unquiet Dead”, or “The Idiot’s Lantern”, not to mention “The Unicorn and the Wasp”, “The Shakespeare Code”, “Human Nature/Family of Blood”, etc.) I also want to add that the Weeping Angels are way less scary now.

To be fair, thanks to the time I spent on Tumblr even before I had my own blog on Tumblr, and on other social media, I absorbed information about what happens later on in the series (I already know who River really is, and I know a bit of what happens in the 50th anniversary episode - I couldn’t really understand it before watching the show, but now I do). And that does not make me that excited, I’ll admit.

The thing is I WANT to keep watching, because there might be very good episodes in series 6 and 7. And because I want to see Peter Capaldi, and get to Jodie Whittaker. I’d like to see all of New Who.

It’s just I am in a Doctor Who slump right now, and I hope I’ll get out of it, because watching it does not feel like it used to feel.

#me #long rant #doctor who #i always think things clearly and they are so neatly organised in my head #then i write and it's word vomit

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