Doctor Who Series 1

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To more fully grok the world of Torchwood, I am now watching Dcotor Who.

Thoughts so far:

Episode 1: Evil manequins? You started the series with evil manequins?
Episode 2: Some really elegant, nicely performed dialogue.
Episode 3: We meet the Cardiff Rift. I wonder why Eve Myles plays two presumeably unrelated characters in the DW/TW universe named Gwen/Guin. Also wonder why wardrobe department couldn't decide on what year it was.

In general:
Could watch Eccleston read the phone book.
Am not an old Doctor Who fan and therefore must ask whether the Doctor has always been so self-absorbed. He's sort of an ass.

Comments

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The evil mannequins are a nod to an old-school story, from the early 1970s. "Terror of the Autons" I think it was, and if you thought the new-Who story was a bit on the cheezy side... *eyeroll*

re: eps 3, it was RTD pulling the old-school-BBC producer routine. The rule used to be that if an actor arrived on time, sober and remembered their lines, there were pretty much set for life with the Beeb (which is why you keep seeing the same faces in older BBC productions - they were reliable, the Old Boys running the production teams knew who they were, so why not keeping hiring them). Apparently RTD really loved Eve Myles in "The Restless Dead" and as the premise for "Torchwood" started to bubble up in his brain...

But, oh yeah, don't me *started* on the costuming in TRD. The story was... okay, I thought, but the production values were all over the bloody place. It was a rather slap-dash episode, I thought.

Is the Doctor an ass? Depends who you ask. As there have been so many others playing the character, when a person looks at new-Who and says "Has he done that before" cases can be made both for and against.

The general thinking seems to be that the Ninth Doctor is newly regenerated, relatively soon after the Time War (er, I shan't go into too much detail, I don't know how you feel about spoilers) and is thus carrying a load of survivor's guilt and, yeah, is a bit me-me-me at the moment, as he's the only Time Lord left.

But keep watching. I think your opinion might improve over the course of that season... :)