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I started with Christopher Eccleston cast as The Doctor, and unlike a lot of people, I really liked him. He was mature and gritty. He seemed smart, experienced, and a little rough around the edges. For someone who has been through what The Doctor has been through, I think his demeanor and appearance are nothing short of appropriate. When he grabbed Rose's hand in the first episode and told her to run, I trusted him from the get-go.
The first season was wonderful. Even though I didn't like Rose very much, I could at least relate to her. I worked at Macy's part time when I was nineteen, and felt bored with everyday living. If I had met the doctor at that stage in my life, I would've run away with him in a heartbeat as well. But that is neither here nor there, and this show isn't about me. It's about The Doctor, Rose, her mother Jackie, her boyfriend Mickey and evil monsters from across the galaxy. That is what I liked most about this show, I think; the family aspect of it all. You watch the first episode thinking that Rose will leave everything behind her, but some of her family members turn out to be extraordinarily helpful in the end. She even surprises herself sometimes. I once heard that the best leaders have leadership thrust upon them. I think that happens a lot to Rose in seasons 1 and 2, and she makes the best of situations when the Doctor is off doing something else.
However, this does not mean that Rose would make a good leader, or that she should make any important decisions by herself. Every time the Doctor told her not to wander off, she would run off and get herself captured. It was like I was watching Jack and Kate from LOST all over again! Ugh! And her 80 coats of mascara she kept piling on every episode? And those teeth? Close your mouth, woman, Jeez!
Anyways, the dynamic between Rose and the Doctor is sweet, but the age gap seems to throw a lot of people off. Maybe that is why the majority of people prefer Tennent over Eccleston. Maybe a lot of people forget that he claims to be over 900 years old in one episode. If he was dating an eighty year-old woman, it would still be an inappropriate age ratio. So, no matter what, I think the realtionship, in and of itself, is sweet. The two of them truly care for each other, and would do anything to save the other.
The dynamic duo travel in their ship, the TARDIS, through both space and time. That means that aliens, robots, zombies, and even the Devil himself are confronted, explored, and explained in a very scientific and logical way. Ethics and morality are discussed for all types of lifeforms including ghostly spirits and alien entities. The Doctor challenges your way of thinking of other races and species, and always delivers in a tight spot.
I was really sad at the end of Season 1 when I knew that The Doctor was going to die. Even though he was only changing faces, it was still really depressing. I had grown accustomed to the more mature Doctor, and then all of the sudden this anorexic guy who played Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire takes his place? It didn't seem right, it seemed, so... silly.
It didn't take long for that silliness to warm my heart. Granted, Tennant is not as endearing as Eccleston was, but his goofiness and confidence drew me in. Everything is sing-songy fun until it can no longer be. He wears a three piece suit with Chuck Taylors, and 3-D sunglasses to see alien matter surrounding foreign objects. He's loud, he's jumpy, he's funny, he's adorable. The relationship between him and Rose is more noticable with this actor, and a lot more believable. They kiss each other's forehead and touch each other a lot more, and it's not as "icky" as it was with Eccleston.
Much more fun characters are introduced and revisited in Season 2 with Tennant. Daleks and Cybermen terrorize alternate universes where Rose was never born, and her father was never killed. Harriet Jones defeats the Slitheen and becomes Prime Minister. Torchwood is founded and Mickey ends up saving the day. Rose runs into Sarah Jane, who we find out is The Doctor's ex-companion, and jealousies rage. Jack Harkness wasn't in Season 2, but I just realized I forgot to mention him earlier. He shows up in the middle of Season 1 in an alternate World War II London. He's somewhat of a time-traveler himself and has his own ship. He has psychic paper like The Doctor, and helps the two of them fight off the Daleks in the season finale. I've heard that he plays a bigger role in the show later, and if not on this show, he is featured in the spin-off Torchwood. I can't wait.
The end of the second season was a tearjerker even though I knew I was going to lose Billie Piper as Rose. It was an exact flip of emotions from the Season One finale; but this show is so good, you can't help but be pulled in. You can't help but feel the abandonment Rose feels when The Doctor sends her into the alternate universe to save her life. Her anger and depression is well deserved, and the Doctor can do nothing to help her. He can only send his image in that final scene on the beach in Norway. He can't even touch her.
All I wanted throughout this whole season was for them to kiss, or to do something, and when it's all said and done, they can't even do that. What heartbreak! What disappointment! And when she finally tells him she loves him, he doesn't even have time to say it in return. He just disappears because the TARDIS runs out of energy. Ugh, that poor, poor girl. She could have been with The Doctor and she is stuck in an alternate universe with Mickey. Oh well, at least she has both of her parents in this world, and she is still alive....
I don't know what the last few seconds of this season were about, or how any of it could have happened. How did a woman get aboard the TARDIS that The Doctor doesn't know? Who is this woman? Why is she wearing a wedding dress? Why are her teeth so bad? Why am I in love with David Tennant?
Basically I can't stop thinking about this show. Everything about it gets me geeked out beyond belief. I've finally filled the void in my life that LOST left me with last year. Only I don't have to think very hard, or wait three years for an answer to a question that turned out to be relatively unimportant............. But you get the idea, right?
Namaste
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