Dr. Who. I have a new fandom!
Mar. 24th, 2006 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieFinally got around to watching the first two episodes of the new Dr. Who that scifi showed last week.
I. Am. In. Love. I have a new fandom and I am giddy with glee.
I remember watching an old Dr. Who ep on PBS a few years back: the Doctor (played by someone named Baker, according to Husband) was a bizarro individual, the budget was nil and the cheese factor temporarily made me lactose intolerant. But I did want to give this new one a try, since so many people on my flist liked it, and plus Husband is a Doctor fan (Whovian? Whovellian?).
Love. So much love. I've liked Christopher Eccleston ever since Elizabeth (one of the few good things about that awful movie) and Jude. But I never liked him as much as the amiable lunatic that is the Doctor. A lunatic with a hard, dark edge. Nine is a mix of a Pratchett character and a British Crichton. There is humor and it's razor sharp. And there are nuggets of angst in the sharpness. This sort of edgy, angsty irreverence is a lot more my thing (witness Firefly or Farscape) than BSG's unending solemnity.
Husband says they are making the Doctor a lot darker than previously. I have no basis for comparison, but I do like the dark edges: he is a war veteran and his planet has been destroyed, and he is the last of his people, and his manic humor reminds me a lot of Crichton's humor in later seasons. What else can you do but laugh? If you stop to think you'll want to knock your head against the wall. It's like a willfully put on mask, and sometimes it slips, as in when he sees that Tree Girl burn, or when he calls back that last Human who engineered the deaths of those beings and watches her literally crack herself to death. Rose is telling him 'help her' but he just stands and watches. And I remember thinking "this is not a guy you want to cross." Basically, he's seen too much and there is darkness in him. But also arrogance, that is so off-hand you can't even be offended at it. And I love when he shows off TARDIS like a kid. I think he wants Rose to come with him so much because he is, putting aside the veil of bravado, and words, and eccentricity, lonely.
I really love Rose. She is useful and practical and really really cool. She is also pretty in that very real "cute girl you see on the street" way and not in an impossibly glam Hollywood way. And she makes a pretty good friend. I love her reaction to Nine telling her the truth about his homeworld. She breaks up the moment by telling him she smells chips and let's get some. And it's perfect. I think I might have a girlcrush. I don't know if they will ever hook up (if they do, great, if not, that's great too, as I like their friends intereactions), but I can see why people write so much Nine/Rose.
Fave quote?
(After Doctor tells her he is an alien) Rose: So why do you sound as if you are from the North?
Doctor: Lots of planets are from the North.
The cheese and limited budget is still there, but this time it's endearingly so.
Now I need icons and fic. New fandom awaits!
I. Am. In. Love. I have a new fandom and I am giddy with glee.
I remember watching an old Dr. Who ep on PBS a few years back: the Doctor (played by someone named Baker, according to Husband) was a bizarro individual, the budget was nil and the cheese factor temporarily made me lactose intolerant. But I did want to give this new one a try, since so many people on my flist liked it, and plus Husband is a Doctor fan (Whovian? Whovellian?).
Love. So much love. I've liked Christopher Eccleston ever since Elizabeth (one of the few good things about that awful movie) and Jude. But I never liked him as much as the amiable lunatic that is the Doctor. A lunatic with a hard, dark edge. Nine is a mix of a Pratchett character and a British Crichton. There is humor and it's razor sharp. And there are nuggets of angst in the sharpness. This sort of edgy, angsty irreverence is a lot more my thing (witness Firefly or Farscape) than BSG's unending solemnity.
Husband says they are making the Doctor a lot darker than previously. I have no basis for comparison, but I do like the dark edges: he is a war veteran and his planet has been destroyed, and he is the last of his people, and his manic humor reminds me a lot of Crichton's humor in later seasons. What else can you do but laugh? If you stop to think you'll want to knock your head against the wall. It's like a willfully put on mask, and sometimes it slips, as in when he sees that Tree Girl burn, or when he calls back that last Human who engineered the deaths of those beings and watches her literally crack herself to death. Rose is telling him 'help her' but he just stands and watches. And I remember thinking "this is not a guy you want to cross." Basically, he's seen too much and there is darkness in him. But also arrogance, that is so off-hand you can't even be offended at it. And I love when he shows off TARDIS like a kid. I think he wants Rose to come with him so much because he is, putting aside the veil of bravado, and words, and eccentricity, lonely.
I really love Rose. She is useful and practical and really really cool. She is also pretty in that very real "cute girl you see on the street" way and not in an impossibly glam Hollywood way. And she makes a pretty good friend. I love her reaction to Nine telling her the truth about his homeworld. She breaks up the moment by telling him she smells chips and let's get some. And it's perfect. I think I might have a girlcrush. I don't know if they will ever hook up (if they do, great, if not, that's great too, as I like their friends intereactions), but I can see why people write so much Nine/Rose.
Fave quote?
(After Doctor tells her he is an alien) Rose: So why do you sound as if you are from the North?
Doctor: Lots of planets are from the North.
The cheese and limited budget is still there, but this time it's endearingly so.
Now I need icons and fic. New fandom awaits!
