This post has been a long time in coming, but here it is at last.
Doctor Who?
Yes, I am officially a Whovian. But not the screamy-fangirl kind. I watch Doctor Who because I appreciate the talent of the actors and the brilliance of the writers. It is enduring and the kind of show that can span every part of one's emotions in a single 45 minute episode.
When I got into the world of Doctor Who, I entered with extreme caution. I had seen it for a while on the suggestions for Netflix and thought it must be really strange and cheesy when the description said "The ninth incarnation of everybody's favorite time-traveling doctor sets about fighting nefarious aliens and other foes in this epic sci fi series."
But despite my caution I decided to watch the first episode of season 1.
It was awful. I'm sorry those of you Whovians out there who really like Christopher Eccleston. I am sure that he is great, I just stopped watching him after the first episode, so none of this is a comment on his acting ability or how he was able to portray the doctor. I am sure that he is excellent. But that first episode was...let me just say, interesting. The acting was mediocre, the writing was flawed, and the effects were horrible.
Needless to say, I wasn't impressed.
So I didn't go back for a while. But thank's to the geek section of pintrest, I decided to give it another shot. But this time I did my research-- the top best episodes of Doctor Who.
And it came up with a David Tennant episode.
It was decent, kind of creepy because I didn't know what was supposed to be happening, but good. I enjoyed Tennant's performance way better than Eccleston's. But I still wasn't convinced.
Then, I came home one day to find out that my sister (who was even more skeptical than I--see her blog at http://sincerely-janine.blogspot.com/ ) had watched the first episode of season 5.
She said it was incredible. So I watched it, still not convinced. But by the end, I was swepped up in it. Matt Smith won me over. His performances episode after episode were equally impressive.
He somehow discovered the magic to playing this extremely complicated character of the Doctor. Matt Smith is a young man, but he plays someone who is 900 years old in a young man's body. He captures the deep sadness in his expression and one gets the sense of the many lives that he has seen come and go out of the world. But he also captures the humor and wittiness that makes up much of the show.
He is old, powerful, and goofy. How does that even work? I don't know, but it does.
Try it out for yourself. Maybe you will think I am just crazy or maybe you will be captured by the brilliance of the story just as I was.
But whatever you do, just be sure to begin this incredible journey at the right place--Season 5 Episode 1, "The Eleventh Hour."
Now, a few of my favorite pictures.
