DOCTOR WHO GAP YEAR UPDATE: The New Doctor
Matt Smith was announced as the next actor to play the Doctor when David Tennant steps down at the end of the specials for the 2010 series around the time of the last Christmas special. He is young...and for fans like me that were pulling for an older doc...it was a bit discouraging. With time (like a week...it is only a TV show) he grew on me. Watching him interviews, seeing some photographs...I warmed up to the idea...plus, like Russell T. Davies, I trust Steven Moffat with this show. He, like Davies, is a fan from childhood. He wants it to succeed, he knows the Doctor, and he is one hell of a writer. His episodes are pretty terrific, altough I wasn't really into his last two parter, and I know he has experience running a show.
So this week the BBC released pictures of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, playing the new companion Amy Pond, in costume...along with a new HD friendly TARDIS prop. The new prop is a little spruced up and has a few features that are closer in style to the old series TARDIS props. No biggie.
Matt Smith's Doctor costume is pretty good. Simple suit...with a bowtoe...very Patrick Throughton. He looks rather Indiana Jones in his teaching suit. I can go with it.
The thing I want to talk about here isn't something as silly as the new stuff, which sadly excited me a bit. Its more fandom. Jesus...some people will complain about anything. The New TARDIS has a few people up in arms. When the show came back in 2005, people claimed the TARDIS was all wrong, historically inaccurate, the windows were the wrong size.
Now that they appeased them slightly and made some minor changes...they are made because it still isn't close enough! You have to wonder...how these people manage to even dress themselves in the morning. It doesn't matter if it is historically accurate or not. The window size doesn't matter.
ITS A SHOW ABOUT A TIME MACHINE THATS BIGGER ON THE INSIDE THAN OUT, SHAPED *LIKE* A POLICE BOX THAT CARRIES A MAN THAT CHANGES HIS FACE EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS.
The thing is within the context of the show, it isn't a police box. It never was. It was a TARDIS. It was only shaped like a Police Box to fool people into not believing it was time machine, thus keeping them from saying "oi, its a time machine". But theres always those people. The people in fandom who truly give us sci-fi/fantasy geeks a bad name. It is just a TV Show, and if it causes you so much agony to watch because of the shape of the exterior of a bigger-on-the-inside-time-and-space-machine is a little off of historically accuracy....then you need to get a life and move on.
Matt Smith was announced as the next actor to play the Doctor when David Tennant steps down at the end of the specials for the 2010 series around the time of the last Christmas special. He is young...and for fans like me that were pulling for an older doc...it was a bit discouraging. With time (like a week...it is only a TV show) he grew on me. Watching him interviews, seeing some photographs...I warmed up to the idea...plus, like Russell T. Davies, I trust Steven Moffat with this show. He, like Davies, is a fan from childhood. He wants it to succeed, he knows the Doctor, and he is one hell of a writer. His episodes are pretty terrific, altough I wasn't really into his last two parter, and I know he has experience running a show.
So this week the BBC released pictures of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, playing the new companion Amy Pond, in costume...along with a new HD friendly TARDIS prop. The new prop is a little spruced up and has a few features that are closer in style to the old series TARDIS props. No biggie.
Matt Smith's Doctor costume is pretty good. Simple suit...with a bowtoe...very Patrick Throughton. He looks rather Indiana Jones in his teaching suit. I can go with it.
The thing I want to talk about here isn't something as silly as the new stuff, which sadly excited me a bit. Its more fandom. Jesus...some people will complain about anything. The New TARDIS has a few people up in arms. When the show came back in 2005, people claimed the TARDIS was all wrong, historically inaccurate, the windows were the wrong size.
Now that they appeased them slightly and made some minor changes...they are made because it still isn't close enough! You have to wonder...how these people manage to even dress themselves in the morning. It doesn't matter if it is historically accurate or not. The window size doesn't matter.
ITS A SHOW ABOUT A TIME MACHINE THATS BIGGER ON THE INSIDE THAN OUT, SHAPED *LIKE* A POLICE BOX THAT CARRIES A MAN THAT CHANGES HIS FACE EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS.
The thing is within the context of the show, it isn't a police box. It never was. It was a TARDIS. It was only shaped like a Police Box to fool people into not believing it was time machine, thus keeping them from saying "oi, its a time machine". But theres always those people. The people in fandom who truly give us sci-fi/fantasy geeks a bad name. It is just a TV Show, and if it causes you so much agony to watch because of the shape of the exterior of a bigger-on-the-inside-time-and-space-machine is a little off of historically accuracy....then you need to get a life and move on.
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