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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Could watch Eccleston read the phone book.

Gods yes, I enjoy Doctor Who, but (from my PoV at least) he's by far the best Doctor they've ever had. I didn't much like episodes 4 & 5 much, but episode 6 was utterly amazing.

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.

I think this is largely due to the Doctor's grief at the destruction of his homeworld. Others have been fairly self-absorbed, but not as much.

As a sidenote, the evil mannequins are a reference to the first series with the 3rd doctor (the marvelous Jon Pertwee, from who I acquired my fashion sense) who also dealt with evil mannequins.