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selenayI have woken up as a very, very happy Doctor Who fan :-)))))))) Just getting new Doctor Who has made me an excited fan for months, but I've now seen the first episode and I couldn't be happier about it. Wooo!
It's not often that I get a little tingle of excitement when watching the opening credits for a show. Hell, it probably hasn't happened since the Doctor Who movie years ago. But yesterday evening, as the theme began and the Tardis tumbled through a vortex, I had that little tingle and I knew that I was going to enjoy this.
Technically I was eating tea during the show. It was Saturday tea-time, it was therefore Doctor Who. And we (the family *g*) had set up to eat in the lounge so that we didn't have to miss anything. I say 'technically' because I was too busy watching and only ate about three bites. Possibly this needs to be taken account of next week :-)
My major fear had been that it wouldn't feel like Doctor Who. The walking manequins were rather Doctor Who-ish, but it was Christopher Eccleston's first appearance that really sealed it. I like his Doctor very much. He's excited, almost child-like in his enthusiasm for everything, yet he has moments of quiet vulnerability that just stop it being over the top. His Doctor also has a tendency to forget the small things when pursuing the larger picture. Forgetting that Rose might be a little distressed by the probable death of her boyfriend emphasised that and added a hint of alien-ness because his priorities are so different. He's the kind of person who would be cheerfully pointing out and enthusastically describing something completely lethal, forgetting that Rose might be frightened and not understanding why she isn't has excited as him.
Now, I didn't expect to like Rose much. After all, Billie Piper began as a cheesy pop singer rather than a serious actor. I wasn't sure whether she'd pursuade me to forget that and Doctor Who has rather a reputation for weak female characters. But I like Rose and I suspect that she'll grow on me a lot more as the weeks go by. I did have a moment of wanting to shout at her when she decided to stay with her wimpy boyfriend rather than join the Doctor in a jaunt around the universe, but her decision to follow as soon as she knew that the Tardis was a time machine won me around. I suspect that Rose will be the character that we're all identifying with and that's part of her major purpose - the character that we'd cheerfully swap places with or just plain want to be.
Or it could just be me that wants to hop in a Tardis and have fantastic adventures :-)
The plot was hampered a little by needing to introduce all the characters and the concepts, but it was still good and showed a huge amount of potential for future episodes. The only point that didn't quite work for me was Rose not noticing that her boyfriend had been replaced with a plastic Auton copy, but leaving that aside it all worked for me. The next episode should be really great because they can get into the plot without needing to spend time introducing the characters to the audience. And the trailers for next week look very exciting :-)
Now I just need to hope that other Doctor Who fans are just as happy and, maybe more importantly, that non-Doctor Who fans were won over. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that ratings stay good for the next two or three episodes and the BBC commission a second series. Not that I'm a greedy Doctor Who fan...
It's not often that I get a little tingle of excitement when watching the opening credits for a show. Hell, it probably hasn't happened since the Doctor Who movie years ago. But yesterday evening, as the theme began and the Tardis tumbled through a vortex, I had that little tingle and I knew that I was going to enjoy this.
Technically I was eating tea during the show. It was Saturday tea-time, it was therefore Doctor Who. And we (the family *g*) had set up to eat in the lounge so that we didn't have to miss anything. I say 'technically' because I was too busy watching and only ate about three bites. Possibly this needs to be taken account of next week :-)
My major fear had been that it wouldn't feel like Doctor Who. The walking manequins were rather Doctor Who-ish, but it was Christopher Eccleston's first appearance that really sealed it. I like his Doctor very much. He's excited, almost child-like in his enthusiasm for everything, yet he has moments of quiet vulnerability that just stop it being over the top. His Doctor also has a tendency to forget the small things when pursuing the larger picture. Forgetting that Rose might be a little distressed by the probable death of her boyfriend emphasised that and added a hint of alien-ness because his priorities are so different. He's the kind of person who would be cheerfully pointing out and enthusastically describing something completely lethal, forgetting that Rose might be frightened and not understanding why she isn't has excited as him.
Now, I didn't expect to like Rose much. After all, Billie Piper began as a cheesy pop singer rather than a serious actor. I wasn't sure whether she'd pursuade me to forget that and Doctor Who has rather a reputation for weak female characters. But I like Rose and I suspect that she'll grow on me a lot more as the weeks go by. I did have a moment of wanting to shout at her when she decided to stay with her wimpy boyfriend rather than join the Doctor in a jaunt around the universe, but her decision to follow as soon as she knew that the Tardis was a time machine won me around. I suspect that Rose will be the character that we're all identifying with and that's part of her major purpose - the character that we'd cheerfully swap places with or just plain want to be.
Or it could just be me that wants to hop in a Tardis and have fantastic adventures :-)
The plot was hampered a little by needing to introduce all the characters and the concepts, but it was still good and showed a huge amount of potential for future episodes. The only point that didn't quite work for me was Rose not noticing that her boyfriend had been replaced with a plastic Auton copy, but leaving that aside it all worked for me. The next episode should be really great because they can get into the plot without needing to spend time introducing the characters to the audience. And the trailers for next week look very exciting :-)
Now I just need to hope that other Doctor Who fans are just as happy and, maybe more importantly, that non-Doctor Who fans were won over. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that ratings stay good for the next two or three episodes and the BBC commission a second series. Not that I'm a greedy Doctor Who fan...
