My somewhat painful acceptance of Doctor Who

[ninety6tears]

Judging from a certain recent evening I came slogging home from a seven-hour work shift to predictably find Sara watching Doctor Who and immediately yelled, "I hate this show! I've been wanting to watch it all day!", my usual new fandom nag that is my sister didn't have to try very hard to get me to watch it. My love/hate relationship with the Who is only emphasized by something which may be a reason for which I have on some subconscious level previously told myself I would probably never watch the new series: Simply by being immersed in the internet I'd managed to figure out I'd probably ship the hell out of Doctor/Rose and, having a general idea of how all the fangirls were devastated by the season two finale, maybe felt a little bit like getting into this show would be downright sadistic of me. All I can say is thank god for David Tennant and the fact that the show doesn't take itself too seriously, because this character has some hella-angst baggage going on and somehow every episode still manages to be a little silly and make you laugh your ass off without ignoring all the past tragedies its main character has to constantly reckon with.

One interesting thing that Sara said to me when I started watching this show is that the Doctor and Rose have the potential to make me question everything I've ever held against Stephenie Meyer over Edward and Bella. I swear I could write a whole meta post comparing the two, because I've actually put a ridiculous amount of thought into how the situations are slightly but significantly different. And maybe I will.

Seeing as I'm only at the beginning of season three, I'm in a kind of pseudo-spoiler-lockdown concerning Doctor Who. There aren't exactly an assload of big reveals you wouldn't want spoiled in this kind of show, but since I went in knowing most of the major stuff that would transpire in the first couple seasons it would be nice to be surprised by something. And some of the stuff I don't know about yet probably seems like ancient history to those who've kept up with torrents (or, um, are British) so it's not like people are being sensitive to spoiling others, and they just finished S4 so the fandom is pretty bubbly right now. So I'm just being. . .eh. . .cautious. Not very active on LJ at the moment for various reasons, anyway.

Will possibly post more detailed reactions to specific episodes later. I don't even know how many Whovians are watching my journal, probably not many.

Comments

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

I find it hard to see it that way. The only thing Bella cares about is being able to fulfill her shallow ideals of what makes an intimate relationship by being Edward's physical equal, when she could still spend the rest of her life with him without being a vampire. Rose was willing to sacrifice a life she really had no interest in -- and wasn't in some self-centered denial of how this was going to affect other people -- just to help the Doctor and probably without ever having more than a platonic relationship with him. It's not like she was leaving a place that she'd miss to spend her days keeping the Doctor's dinner on the table.
Maybe I would feel differently if things hadn't gone so badly for them, because we were shown that even though the two were devastated about being apart, they were still capable of getting on with their lives. Unlike the absolutely pathetic dependence between E & B.
Really, though, I'm not much of a logical shipper. I enjoy arguing Jacob/Bella to death with sense and reason, but what it really comes down to is whether I feel it or not. And I buy without getting any swoony kisses between the Doctor and Rose that they love each other, far more fully than I understood anything about Edward and Bella in three whole books.

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

i can't even place how it happened, it just did. It's such a bummer when that happens. If there's a lot of character bashing I'm almost scared to delve into the Who crowd, cause there aren't really any characters I hate. I mean, Martha isn't my favorite companion so far but I'm shocked to hear that she's not very popular, I mean WTF. I'd hang out with her. Girl's got some bitchin' shoes.