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I thought I might as well squee once more about Doctor Who, since it's starting on the Sci-Fi channel tomorrow, Fridays at 9:00 or 10:00. I hear it's being well-promoted, and I think it's running in Battlestar Galactica's time slot, so I hope it does well.
See here my previous squeeing about the show. I wasn't entirely right about one thing, but it was handled much better than I expected.
To add some things, and to recap:
1)In terms of genre, it flits between science fiction, horror, and social commentary. The creepy kind of horror, not the blood and guts kind of horror. But it manages to be as truly creepy as anything else I've seen on TV (especially the two-parter during the London Blitz). When it does social commentary, its politics are solidly left-wing.
2) There are 13 episodes in this run, and not an ounce of filler. There are some episodes that aren't fantastic, which exist to set up plot points later on. I actually have six favorite episodes. And none of the less-great episodes go so far as to be boring or stupid. (There is one two-parter, episodes 4 and 5, with more fart humor than strictly necessary. You can ignore that).
3) The characterization of the Doctor is just--incredible. Now, I'm a person who is more likely to get crushes on characters rather than actors, because they're interesting. And perhaps Christopher Eccleston is not someone who'd stop me in my tracks on the street--but I fell utterly in love with the Doctor. He's got depths and dark places but he's never broody or angsty. He's actually silly at times. (As I said earlier, he's like Vash the Stampede).
4) The relationship between the Doctor and Rose is the great fictional character romance?/not-romance? since Mulder and Scully. They trust each other deeply, and they like each other, but the Doctor knows everything and acts like it, and expects other people to know everything too, which tends not to work out so great.
5) Clever writing. Good plotting (some have complained about plot holes; I don't really notice them). The show doesn't run to formula, and indeed, runs to some pretty unexpected places. The special effects are usually respectable. (They're not quite up to, say, Firefly standards, but they're never distracting and they're miles above the old Doctor Who).
Watch it!
See here my previous squeeing about the show. I wasn't entirely right about one thing, but it was handled much better than I expected.
To add some things, and to recap:
1)In terms of genre, it flits between science fiction, horror, and social commentary. The creepy kind of horror, not the blood and guts kind of horror. But it manages to be as truly creepy as anything else I've seen on TV (especially the two-parter during the London Blitz). When it does social commentary, its politics are solidly left-wing.
2) There are 13 episodes in this run, and not an ounce of filler. There are some episodes that aren't fantastic, which exist to set up plot points later on. I actually have six favorite episodes. And none of the less-great episodes go so far as to be boring or stupid. (There is one two-parter, episodes 4 and 5, with more fart humor than strictly necessary. You can ignore that).
3) The characterization of the Doctor is just--incredible. Now, I'm a person who is more likely to get crushes on characters rather than actors, because they're interesting. And perhaps Christopher Eccleston is not someone who'd stop me in my tracks on the street--but I fell utterly in love with the Doctor. He's got depths and dark places but he's never broody or angsty. He's actually silly at times. (As I said earlier, he's like Vash the Stampede).
4) The relationship between the Doctor and Rose is the great fictional character romance?/not-romance? since Mulder and Scully. They trust each other deeply, and they like each other, but the Doctor knows everything and acts like it, and expects other people to know everything too, which tends not to work out so great.
5) Clever writing. Good plotting (some have complained about plot holes; I don't really notice them). The show doesn't run to formula, and indeed, runs to some pretty unexpected places. The special effects are usually respectable. (They're not quite up to, say, Firefly standards, but they're never distracting and they're miles above the old Doctor Who).
Watch it!
