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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Episode 6, which has already been mentioned here as "Dalek," is one of my favorite ones from Eccleston's too-short role. The two-parter with "The Empty Child" is pleasantly creepy (and where the crossover begins in earnest), while "Father's Day" pisses me off to no end, and I'd rather not spoil it now. David Tennant had, IMO, a great Season 2 and not-so-great Season 3 due to the "Lonely God" story arc attached to him.

As for being an ass, you can go all the way back to Jon Pertwee in the early 1970s to see the Doctor's arrogance when dealing with humans. The character's love of humanity vacillates with each Doctor, with some incarnations showing an abundance of love (Peter Davison, the one-shot Paul McCann), and some who can barely tolerate humans (Colin Baker, whom I actually liked because he was an abrasive ass; too bad most of his scripts were horrid). Eccleston carried a weary weight to the role, which Tennant seemed to fill in Season 2, but not Season 3. He's very close to Peter Davison's chumminess with humans, with a bit of "I'm-so-much-smarter-than-you" that Tom Baker and Colin Baker held in abundance.

This thread reminds me that I need to download the new episodes...