New Who 2x01

[sapote]

Seriously, no wonder England has a reputation (in my faith-crazed country) as a secular place. You've got Dr. Who!

No, I'm not trying to really bring the crazy, I'm just saying that he's an incarnated immortal being who cures lepers. Seriously, Russell T. Davies, I might have to dock some athiest points for that.

I mean, one of the reasons I'm falling hard for the Whoverse is that its hero actually makes moral choices I agree with (you would not believe how hard it is to find heroes who I don't think should actually be in jail for war crimes, no wait, you would believe it). I hope a little dose of "he's like Jesus, in a way" doesn't spoil it for me.

I am still suspending judgement on Ten. To be honest, before I started watching, I expected to prefer the later, cuter Who, just like I preferred the later, cuter Ray. I definitely haven't fallen hard for Ten, but he is an adorable, bouncy little fellow. I like his shoes? I am a little annoyed that they ditched the guy with the chemistry right before the body-swapping makeouts, but ::represses Doctor vs. Doctor feelings:: I will enjoy the shiny, dammit.

I am hoping to actually get caught up, because I have never (seriously) watched a show as it happened. I've always watched whole seasons at once, usually from a closed canon. And it would be nice to be able to spread out the squee over a longer period of time, instead of all of it happening over one weekend.

Also: do we just assume there are other rooms in the TARDIS that we never see, or do they exist in a timeless sort of state where they never have to sleep or eat or go to the bathroom?

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The Doctor is dead, long live the Doctor.

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

This fic: http://community.livejournal.com/time_and_chips/1076872.html
conveniently summarizes the the fannish feeling of cheating on the old Doctor with the new Doctor. (Also? Hello, porn.)

The TARDIS is bigger on the inside. I prefer to think that there are lots and lots of rooms that we never see. Sometimes fandom interprets this as "there's a pool, and lots of other cool stuff".

Also, if you want to cement your Tennant love, go looking for Viva Blackpool. It's a 6 episode (or thereabouts) show from the BBC. He's a detective, and it's a murder mystery police procedural set in the British equivalent to Las Vegas. With musical numbers. It's as f**ked up as it is awesome. It's hard to find, but so worth it: your brain will boggle, but you will love him. (Especially as he eats an ice cream cone.)

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

I think they did actually have a pool inside in one episode ... there are huge amounts of rooms. Time And Relative Dimensions In Space! They explored it a bit in the fourth and early 5th doctor episodes... there was a room called the zero room at the heart of it, which was used to stabilise the doctor at the beginning of his transformation between fourth and fifth. Also, there are bedrooms, dressing rooms etc.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

Well, there have to be more rooms because in the Unquiet Dead the Doctor gives Rose a whole series of directions in order to get to the wardrobe. Since the internet has failed me, I did a quick rewatch and he says things like fifth door on the left. Honestly, I would be upset if there wasn't a giant Beauty & the beast sized library there.

I will spare you my Tenth Doctor wibbling, but it seems that without my will, he has grown on me. Somehow. I believe that it is his superpower.

[phnelt.livejournal.com]

I seem to be having "technical difficulties" with chat. But OMG world of yes did I see those episodes.

But is just me, or do we seem to be afflicted with a small case of TARDIS ex machina?