The New Doctor

[sharplittleteeth]

I saw the new Doctor Who last night.

I liked it. It veered a bit too wildly between moods, and Eccleston was too heavy with the grinning maniac schtick.

But I loved the contrast between Rose's life in London and the strangeness of the Doctor. That was always the appeal of Doctor Who for me- this idea that you could be plucked out of your dull everyday life and whisked away to incredible adventures. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had that same appeal.

And the speech the Doctor gave, about how he could feel the Earth falling through space, was just fantastic.

I hope we get to see more of the inside of the TARDIS. The TARDIS was always such a great idea. It's like the best secret clubhouse in galaxy.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it more on the second go through. I felt the pacing was way off the first time, and I was a little overwhelmed trying to take it all in.

It's not perfect, but it'll do.

I don't think we're going to see too much of the TARDIS, at least before episode 13, because the ship-in-a-bottle shows were usually done for budget reasons - but, you never know.

As a boy, I fondly remembered reading about the Sontarins invading the TARDIS. Pity it never worked out as I imagined it.

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

Apart from the various control rooms, the only other location from inside the TARDIS that I remember was an indoor swimming pool.

From that I always imagined the TARDIS to be fitted out like an English manor - libraries of leather-bound books, four poster beds in the bedrooms, antique leather armchairs in the study. The old Doctor always struck me as an Anglophile. Or maybe that was just my subconcious connecting the dots between the TARDIS and the Wardrobe from the Narnia series.

The new TARDIS looks more explicitly alien. I'd still like to see more.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

You need to watch The Invasion of Time, Castrovalva and The Visitation (IIRC) to get a sense of how the rest of the TARDIS is portrayed.

It doesn't match your vision - though the McGann control room and the illustrations for Inside The Spaceship do.