Random Rambles: First Thoughts on Doctor Who

It's been around half a year since I watched a Doctor Who episode. Let me just say that I'm incredibly lazy and my TV watchlist is already backlogged as it is. I was just done with "Blink" and about to finish season 3 and then I just stopped and moved onto Breaking Bad. So this is still technically my primary thoughts since I haven't watched the new series in its entirety and I also haven't watched the old Doctor Who in the 20th century.

Doctor Who has a huge following that is almost religious. Every single person on the internet seems to be a fanatic and love the show. People are claiming that David Tennant is a god while other claim that Matt Smith is the better Doctor. Anyways, the whole pandemonium served to make me more intrigued by the whole phenomenon. There had to be something about the show that appealed to so many people.

To cut to the chase, Doctor Who did interest me at first that I continued watching until season 3. I liked the fiction side of everything and I liked the whole ambience of the show. I liked the idea of solving problems in space and time with a time lord that seemed to know everything. Yet Doctor Who doesn't do what Star Trek does. Doctor Who is more of a show that is built on flashy adventures and exciting action while waiting upon the eventual resolution. Star Trek has an emphasis on story and progression in a fictional place. Doctor Who's problem is the writing in the end since the Doctor and his companion have really stupid relationships which means that we have to put up with stupid dialogue now and again. It becomes extremely obvious that the companion will always fall in love with the Doctor and they have this kind of relationship that skirts around the issue even though it's been hinted at so much that a 2-year-old could've figured out that it was going to be revealed. In this way, Doctor Who really falls flat because the dialogue and the character interactions kill it for me. In one scene, the Doctor saves his companion over an entire species which sends mixed messages to me. I wish they took the love out of the show since it hampers down on the entire experience.

Overall, this show does have potential but I really don't see anything in this show.

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