A WARNING FOR THOSE FROM AMERICA/WHO AREN'T UP TO DATE WITH THE SHOW: THIS ARTICLE MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP IT.
It also may include adorable baby animals, though, so skip at your own risk.
Anyway, the new series of Doctor Who, then. First thing's first: it's absolutely incredible. Stephen Moffat is an absolutely incredible writer, and it's great to have him in charge of the series. Now, lots of mean things have been said about Russel T Davis over the last few years, and I have to admit that, while it got a bit silly at times, it was still pretty good fun. But Stephen Moffat, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan seem to be a winning combination. And this is what really set me thinking.
The new series is definitely a reboot: they're even referring to it as Series One, not Series Five. But just how rebooty it is only really stuck last week. Not only do they have a new doctor, a new tardis, a new assistant, a new sonic screwdriver, and new daleks (who were introduced just sliiiightly like power rangers), Amy can't remember one of the biggest events of Russel T Davis' tenure, the season 4 finale, even happening.
That's right, folks, Stephen Moffat is trying to write Russel T Davis' years out of existence. Well, no, that's an exaggeration, but it's certainly intriguing, and we can only assume it's to do with these not-particularly-subtle cracks in time that keep appearing. An intriguing if rather obvious lead to a series finale.
The new series is definitely a reboot: they're even referring to it as Series One, not Series Five. But just how rebooty it is only really stuck last week. Not only do they have a new doctor, a new tardis, a new assistant, a new sonic screwdriver, and new daleks (who were introduced just sliiiightly like power rangers), Amy can't remember one of the biggest events of Russel T Davis' tenure, the season 4 finale, even happening.
That's right, folks, Stephen Moffat is trying to write Russel T Davis' years out of existence. Well, no, that's an exaggeration, but it's certainly intriguing, and we can only assume it's to do with these not-particularly-subtle cracks in time that keep appearing. An intriguing if rather obvious lead to a series finale.
On a final note, I absolutely love the sort of steampunk aesthetic they seem to be going for this series - the weird, "I found these things in my Grandad's loft and shall turn them into my TIME MACHINE" look of the tardis interior (bathtaps? A typewriter?), the new sonic screwdriver, the slightly 'used future' look of Starship UK, Spitfires in space...
On a second final note, Matt Smith's Doctor is awesome. Tennant was going to be a tough act to follow, but he completely nails it - playing the doctor as the best nutty professor ever. This is partly due to the strength of Stephen Moffat's writing for conversational humour, but he was also pretty awesome in the latest Mark Gatiss episode. (Saving the earth with a jammy dodger is evidently all in a day's work.)
On a final final note, this is very interesting news. Also, awesome. It'll be interesting to see how Russell T Davis writes for Matt Smith...
On an absolutely, completely and utterly final note: this is the geekiest post I have written yet. And one of my others had a picture of batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber.
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
Oh, and the adorable baby animal you were promised:
Is it just me, or is that stare kind of creepy?
*Skips*
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