Sooooooooooooooooooooooo....

[hmpf]

I was kind of stuck at my parents' place in a snowstorm, with my external hard drive, and they have a new TV that you can plug USB drives in, so I started watching Doctor Who (Doctor Eleven). (Okay, various people's recent and not so recent efforts to re-sell the show to me helped, too.) So I watched two eps, and I cried *twice*.

It's either PMS or this season is really, really good.

One question: Why do they cut all these *awesome* scenes? Like this, and this?

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Cus not everyone's as awesome at you at telling the difference between characters one doesn't like and characters that are badly written!

Thanks. I'd say Eleven and Amy are well written, just not characters I like. I do find the writing for River Song somewhat problematic, but then she is a character Moff is carrying over from RTD's tenure. Makes me inclined to be a bit forgiving of the feeling that her writing is... lumpy.

...but that people believe Moffat himself doesn't care about character? Or thinks it's unimportant?

*Blinks.* RTD has me convinced he'll cheerfully abandon good characterization for the sake of weak plot or bad melodrama, but Moff hasn't made me feel that way. I was worried he might after the midseason two-parter, but he held things together.

Because objectively the entire season kind of...hangs off of character arcs, both resolved and unresolved.

*Nods.* The season was very character driven.

...I do think he's a capable writer in other formats.

Hmm, apart from the character Captain Jack Harkness having been introduced during his tenure on Who, and his having prompted the development of the character Ianto Jones on Torchwood I haven't seen anything from RTD that makes me like or respect the man. Of course his handling of Who and Torchwood have left me quite bitter on both subjects.

I'm not a huge old skool fan...

I am. My Team TARDIS likely will always be Four, Romana One and K-9. Though I wouldn't have given NuWho the attention I have if I hadn't enjoyed Nine, Captain Jack Harkness and Rose. Nine remains my favorite NuWho Doctor.

Sylvester McCoy and Ace are probably my favourite team-up, though I always surprise myself with how much I enjoy Troughton whenever I catch an episode with him in it. :)

Heh, McCoy and Troughton are two of my three least favorite Doctors. Hartnell is the third. I'm sure part of the reason I dislike Eleven as much as I do is how Matt Smith's love of Troughton comes through in his performance. I did like Ace, and love Jamie McCrimmon though. I got to meet the actor who played Jamie over Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago.