School Reunion

[auntiemeesh]

I'm experiencing the Doctor Who love all over again.

I wasn't at all happy when I learned that Christopher Eccleston wasn't coming back for the second season. I mean, I've been a Doctor Who fan my whole life so I understand about the whole regeneration bit, but I thought he might have stuck around for more than one season. Sadly, no such luck.

So I was prepared to not feel a very warm welcome for the new Doctor when he put in his appearance and there I was wrong. I actually really like David Tennant's Doctor quite a lot. The first few episodes of the season, on the other hand, are only so so.

Today I watched School Reunion, however, and loved it. His reaction to seeing Sarah Jane Smith again was perfect, as was Rose's realization that she was one of many, many companions the Doctor's had, and that when she was gone there would be many, many more, and that he had/did/would feel affection for all of them, but that she wasn't as special to him as she'd thought.

All this against the back drop of Anthony Stewart Head playing an alien impersonating a school Head Master for his own nefarious purposes. I loved that!

So, onward and upward. I'm off to find episode four, if I can.

Comments

[eve11]

Oh I do hope you can find episode four. Episode four totally cemented my love for the Doctor. It's fantastic. It is now vying with this week's episode as my favorite in the series, though.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I'm downloading ep 4 as I type. I was having trouble with the downloading all week, but it's apparently just a function of being patient enough to wait ten minutes or so before concluding that the torrent isn't available.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I see why you liked that ep so much. Very, very good. So sad and angsty, though. Now I'm going to have to go find some h/c fic in order to feel better.

(and I'm also going to have to find some David Tennant icons, clearly.)

[eve11]

Email was down, wasn't getting lj notices.

You could try time_and_chips -- they're usually pretty good with the icons. Actually, better yet, check through who_daily and look back at the posts that came by right after episode 4 aired; there will be links there to lots and lots of icons, with few spoilers for the stuff you've not seen yet.

And yeah, it was a really good episode. "We're not keeping the horse!", lol...

If you haven't been looking at them, you should see about downloading the Doctor Who Confidential episodes that go along with the series. Cool behind-the-scenes stuff. Stuff like, "We're never going to be able to have a horse jumping through a mirror."

[pumpkinescobar.livejournal.com]

Is that you in that picture?

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's Rose, from the show.

[pumpkinescobar.livejournal.com]

Oh duh.