I grew up watching Dr Who. Had I started watching them when I was grown up, maybe I'd prefer the grown up stories. The writing is certainly excellent in the new series, and the stories so far have been well thought out and brilliantly acted. I even have to concede that quitstopher Eccleston did a fantastic job, though he spoiled it by quitting before the series even aired.
What I'm mourning is more the loss of the cliffhanger endings, and the way a whole week to see how the Dr, or assisstant, would get out of this one was an eternity.... also, there was an innocence to the Doctor's relationship with his assisstants. He behaved more like a father figure, or uncle, or in the case of the first Doctor, a grandfather. Not, very certainly, like a potential boyfriend. The new series seems to be aimed more at the teenagers and my generation (30 somethings, the last generation to have Dr Who as children) rather than at everyone. |
