The oddest thing about DW for me was how very much I fell for both the characters and the ship. I started watching for the aliens and the fact that it looked like a fun and rather brilliant show. But Rose and the Doctor completely and utterly grabbed me and I've never felt about a ship the same way I do about them. Martha and Donna and all the other characters were equally brilliant and kept me captivated even when I thought we'd never see Rose in canon again.
Yes. The characters all felt so real and I fell in love with them. They were having these utterly fantastic and impossible adventures but they always felt completely real.
This show has pretty much ruined me for all others, I'm afraid! Whenever I watch anything these days, I compare it to Doctor Who.
It really is rather brilliant! The closest that I can really come to a show that has made me feel so passionate is BtVS, but even there, there was the barrier of cynicism, particularly about love. DW is much more earnest and romantic and idealist, even in its pain.
And I think the above is why I'm so bitter about Moffat and s5 - I don't *want* to be put off a show that's so much bigger and better than Moffat but I just know I'll keep comparing to DW under RTD if I watch.
I know! Anyone else... anyone else and I would be planning on watching S5. But not that man, who has been so vocally set against all the things that have made the show so good for me and who has shown, in his episodes, a shallowness that is directly counter to the emotional quality and depth that has made the rest of the show so wonderful these past four years.
Agreeing completely with this entirely wonderful post: I wouldn't have missed it for the world! (And now I'm all sniffly!)
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Date: 2008-11-02 06:57 pm (UTC)Yes. The characters all felt so real and I fell in love with them. They were having these utterly fantastic and impossible adventures but they always felt completely real.
This show has pretty much ruined me for all others, I'm afraid! Whenever I watch anything these days, I compare it to Doctor Who.
It really is rather brilliant! The closest that I can really come to a show that has made me feel so passionate is BtVS, but even there, there was the barrier of cynicism, particularly about love. DW is much more earnest and romantic and idealist, even in its pain.
And I think the above is why I'm so bitter about Moffat and s5 - I don't *want* to be put off a show that's so much bigger and better than Moffat but I just know I'll keep comparing to DW under RTD if I watch.
I know! Anyone else... anyone else and I would be planning on watching S5. But not that man, who has been so vocally set against all the things that have made the show so good for me and who has shown, in his episodes, a shallowness that is directly counter to the emotional quality and depth that has made the rest of the show so wonderful these past four years.
Agreeing completely with this entirely wonderful post: I wouldn't have missed it for the world! (And now I'm all sniffly!)
*hugs*