Doctor Who Series 1

[rm]

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

[rm.livejournal.com]

The use of the actor twice doesn't perturb me, but why does the character essentially have the same name?

[nobodyreally.livejournal.com]

...and when you answer that, explain why more and more actors are showing up as characters named *their real first name* - WTF?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I think because we have more and more writers involved with the casting process and writer/directors who meet someone in the casting process and instantly feel them click with the world they are building and then can't stand to change their names.

[nobodyreally.livejournal.com]

While I understand that, I'd have to call bullshit on the laziness of writers who can't name their own damned characters. It blows the whole 'suspension of disbelief' if everyone is named the same as in real life. urgh!

on a side topic of writers and such, are you getting any of the fallout from JKR's anti-fan-books thing?

[nobodyreally.livejournal.com]

part 2: forget i asked...

[ali-highland.livejournal.com]

Gwen is a stereotypical Welsh name, like Angus for a Scot or Pierre for a Frenchman.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I presumed the second Gwen was a descendent or someone otherwise close on the family tree (great-great-great-grandniece?), a deliberate echo a la Swiftly Tilting Planet. NewDW does a lot of little structural correspondences.

I also hadn't seen Torchwood yet when I watched NewDW Season 1.