me and who
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diekahvi(no spoilers, ramblings about old series)
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chinawolf wrote about her reluctance to watch pre-Nine episodes yesterday. I also find it hard to watch One and Two because of various reasons. Doctor Who has a different storytelling than other 60s series that I'm used to (e.g. Star Trek, Raumpatruille Orion or Belphegor) plus being an "educational programm". The characters don't interest me much (I confess I only watched a couple of episodes, so I haven't given them the chance to become more interesting over time) and the FX are sometimes hard to bear. (I don't mind watching low budget productions in general - I love Red Dwarf) The opinions about historical periods or science make me cringe, although I know that is what they thought to be right back then. All this makes it hard for me to watch the early DW seasons.
I noticed that I'm a lot more at ease with these shortfalls if I saw the series as a child or teenager. Must be the nostalgia-factor and being able to remember that it was "modern" once.
Remembering old DW brings me to another thing. I often stated that I don't belong to the group of fans whose "first Doctor" is Nine. That I watched DW before "New Who". Some of you might remember me looking down at "that old cheesy low bidget sci-fi-series" :-) The reason for that was that before Nine I had mixed feelings about the series.
My "first Doctor" is Seven and I enjoyed watching him. Mel was ok as companion and as a teenager I thought Ace was supercool ^_^ Then I saw some of Six (they never showed the the series chronological here) and didn't like him that much. I didn't see any DW after that for years until we got sattelite tv and british tv chanels to watch. This introduced me to Three. I thought he was ok as the Doctor but the whole bunch of characters around him (UNIT) plus my poor English made the show not very accessible for me. (But watching more English language tv like MTV and starting to watch ST-TNG in English helped a lot to improve my language skills over the following years. I guess ST is just easier to understand with limited English.) This made me stop watching DW and my interest weakend and I forgot him.
The real death of my interest in Who and my low opinion about it was caused by the 90s movie. I was very dissapointed by it and I sill think it sucks. It's ok when you try to watch it as some sci-fi film and not as DW. Paul McGann is a wonderful lost alien like "Starman" or "The man who fell to earth". Also the victorian "spaceship" interiors are nice. But for me that wasn't really Doctor Who and it made me sneer when people mentioned liking the series afterwards. In retrospective I think McGann could have made an interesting Doctor in an own tv series without all the american background and especially with another actor as the Master!
So at first I got the new episodes in 2005 for a friend and not for me. But somehow I was curious and watched the first episode - and was hooked! I think I can blame that on Eccleston ^_^ Rose had to grow on me throughout the first season (or season 27, depends on how you count) but Nine got me from episode one on.
And I'm glad that I was curious and that it brought me back to Who. I would have missed brilliant Ten and I would have never started to catch up with old DW. Four has since become one of my favorite Doctors :-)
chinawolf wrote about her reluctance to watch pre-Nine episodes yesterday. I also find it hard to watch One and Two because of various reasons. Doctor Who has a different storytelling than other 60s series that I'm used to (e.g. Star Trek, Raumpatruille Orion or Belphegor) plus being an "educational programm". The characters don't interest me much (I confess I only watched a couple of episodes, so I haven't given them the chance to become more interesting over time) and the FX are sometimes hard to bear. (I don't mind watching low budget productions in general - I love Red Dwarf) The opinions about historical periods or science make me cringe, although I know that is what they thought to be right back then. All this makes it hard for me to watch the early DW seasons.I noticed that I'm a lot more at ease with these shortfalls if I saw the series as a child or teenager. Must be the nostalgia-factor and being able to remember that it was "modern" once.
Remembering old DW brings me to another thing. I often stated that I don't belong to the group of fans whose "first Doctor" is Nine. That I watched DW before "New Who". Some of you might remember me looking down at "that old cheesy low bidget sci-fi-series" :-) The reason for that was that before Nine I had mixed feelings about the series.
My "first Doctor" is Seven and I enjoyed watching him. Mel was ok as companion and as a teenager I thought Ace was supercool ^_^ Then I saw some of Six (they never showed the the series chronological here) and didn't like him that much. I didn't see any DW after that for years until we got sattelite tv and british tv chanels to watch. This introduced me to Three. I thought he was ok as the Doctor but the whole bunch of characters around him (UNIT) plus my poor English made the show not very accessible for me. (But watching more English language tv like MTV and starting to watch ST-TNG in English helped a lot to improve my language skills over the following years. I guess ST is just easier to understand with limited English.) This made me stop watching DW and my interest weakend and I forgot him.
The real death of my interest in Who and my low opinion about it was caused by the 90s movie. I was very dissapointed by it and I sill think it sucks. It's ok when you try to watch it as some sci-fi film and not as DW. Paul McGann is a wonderful lost alien like "Starman" or "The man who fell to earth". Also the victorian "spaceship" interiors are nice. But for me that wasn't really Doctor Who and it made me sneer when people mentioned liking the series afterwards. In retrospective I think McGann could have made an interesting Doctor in an own tv series without all the american background and especially with another actor as the Master!
So at first I got the new episodes in 2005 for a friend and not for me. But somehow I was curious and watched the first episode - and was hooked! I think I can blame that on Eccleston ^_^ Rose had to grow on me throughout the first season (or season 27, depends on how you count) but Nine got me from episode one on.
And I'm glad that I was curious and that it brought me back to Who. I would have missed brilliant Ten and I would have never started to catch up with old DW. Four has since become one of my favorite Doctors :-)
