If you’re not a Doctor Who fan, I’m sorry
for your life, and also sorry that this post might not be overly relevant to
your interests. (This post is not 100% spoiler free, but it’s also not super
spoilery, so if you’re not up to date with Doctor Who, make your choice…. Now).
Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who. Just
announced. Hot of the presses. I guess what you need to know before I go any
further is that Eleven is *my* Doctor. If you weren’t around when I first
discovered Doctor Who, feel free to go back and read this post, which is a
literal transcription of my first Who experience. Please enjoy my first reaction to River Song which was "Who's this wench?" - charming, Lizzy, charming. The first episode I watched
was The Eleventh Hour, and I was
hooked right from the very start. I watched all of Season 5, and then went back
and watched everything from the start of Eccleston, working my way back through
again until I caught up with everyone else, who were still reeling from A Good Man Goes to War - in which we all
learn the big secret about River Song. The first episode I had to wait for was Let’s Kill Hitler in which,
unfortunately, no one kills Hitler.
Let me say now that Matt Smith is making
the right choice. He is a very good actor, and he should go off and do all
sorts of excellent things with his career. Let me also say that I am sure I
will love the Twelfth Doctor. It’s just that, with my watching history, this
will be the first regeneration I will watch not knowing what’s coming next.
When I went back to watch Nine, I knew he only had one season, and I knew that
Ten was coming next. I knew everyone loved Tennant, that he was everyone’s
favourite, and that he said “Well” a lot. (Actually, I lied earlier; the first
episode of Who I ever saw was The Waters
of Mars. It was just on one time. I had no idea what was going on,
everything was super dramatic and at the end a tentacle-faced dude appeared and
sang the song of his people.) When I watched the Tennant seasons through in
sequence, I thought he was great, but I was still waiting for Smith. One season
of his was enough, he was my Doctor. And now I am staring down the end. We get
two more episodes and then… he’s gone.
And I think this is what is freaking me out
the most. It’s not that he’s going, because they all have to leave us in the
end, it’s not that we’re getting someone else, because that will be brilliant
I’m sure, it’s that we have just two episodes left to enjoy him in. The 50th
Anniversary special isn’t really going to be about Eleven. It’ll be about Ten,
and Rose, and wtf is happening with John Hurt and celebrating the show’s
history. It shouldn’t be all about the current Doctor, of course, but that
means we get just one proper Matt episode. And it’ll be his last. And it’ll be
on Christmas Day. For crying out loud BBC, I was just starting to get over my
hatred of that holiday, are you trying to crush my soul?
One amazing thing about all of this is that
Boyfriend and I are actually going to be in the UK on Christmas Day. So instead
of watching the regeneration on the ABC on a hot Boxing Day’s night, we’ll be
watching it on the Beeb, in England (probably) and on actual Christmas Day. There
might even be snow, if we’re lucky, and a fireplace, and I don’t know fucking
mead or something. The point is it will be super British, and just a really
different experience to what I’m used to. We will meet a new Doctor in the home
of Doctor Who. One of my bestest friends, Amy, will be there, and afterwards we
can sit around eating pudding and dissecting what we just saw and what kind of
Doctor Twelve will be and weeping for the loss of Eleven. It’ll be great.
Right so I want to tell you guys what my
plan for the blog is going forward. But I’m still kind of working it out. So
far I have confirmed a designer, the wonderful Finbah Neill, to redesign the
page. Go and look at his stuff, he’s very good. Like, wow, I just went and looked over some of those posts again and damn boy. I’m thinking I will keep the
dodgy, DIY vibe some of you seem to love but I want to revamp it a bit. Fin is
good at lots of things and I’m confident he and I can work something out. The
other thing I know for sure is that I won’t be starting any new projects til
I’ve finished this semester. So that would be late June/early July. At the
moment I think what will happen is I will make overanalysing media a bigger
part of what I do from now on but it won’t be all I do. I also would
like to take suggestions for things to watch, probably via facebook, so if you
aren’t a fan there yet, dooooo it.
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