First impressions

[avevale_intelligencer]

New music: naff. May grow on me, but I doubt it.

New title sequence: logo fine on black background but illegible against vortex. Not impressed with forethought there.

New Doctor: Tennant with added Tigger (has child not read Milne?). Less working-class, but still not Time Lord.

New companion: Not from London, which is a plus. Again they've found one with a mind of her own, unlike all the previous ones. Why is a woman with a mind of her own supposed to be so strange? BARBARA had a mind of her own.

New TARDIS: better, but still doesn't look like a place anyone would choose to live.

Pre-owned plot: Girl in Fireplace crossed with Smith and Jones. Nothing new here. And again, "I'm the Doctor" and they run. The rest of the episodes are going to be quite short if that's all it takes.

Overall: not convinced. But will probably keep watching for a few episodes at least. Cue entire flist not being surprised. :\

Oh, and...I was right, wasn't I?

Comments

[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing him as the Doctor yet, but I am recognising everything else.

Am hopeful.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

I flipped over to it straight from the middle of the third Harry Potter film on ITV. That seems to have been the ideal appetiser. =:o}

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

One quibble: The TARDIS apparently is bigger than we see (remember the wardrobe). Given that and the reference to the library (and the random swimming pool?), I have no trouble believing that the control room is only a working area and that sleeping, eating, and other downtime happens elsewhere.

Still not sure Eleven doesn't have a Hot Wheels racecar bed, but at least we got hints of gravitas. And yes, it would be nice if he had had to call in the actual cops (i.e., Judoon) rather than just say "Boo!"

Must make DW icon.

Now off to start a rewatch of Series 14 (Four, from The Masque of Mandragora to The Talons of Weng Chiang -- possibly my favorite ep of all time).

[lexin.livejournal.com]

But, but the Tardis never looked like a place anyone would live. Exist for a short space of time, yes, but not live - even with the beds and so on during the Tegan/Adric etc. period.

[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

No, that's not true. Much earlier on, you felt the TARDIS could be lived in quite happily. That's my childhood memories of how I felt about the TARDIS. Lots of exciting rooms and places and interesting turns in space, just out of sight of the dodgy BBC backdrop.

You always felt like the earlier Doctors were strolling back into the control room, from having had a good breakfast in the conservatory overlooking the lawn, sort of thing. In fact, it was one of the things I really like about the USA one, that Sylvester McCoy was so clearly _living_ a comfortable life in the TARDIS.

I always looked out for the new assistant going off and coming back with a previous assistant's clothes and stuff, from the many rooms and cupboards. That sort of stuff was always there. I think it was Lala/Romana that dressed in Victoria's long white nighty...

And the Cloister Bell has always had a cloister, in my head. :-)

I've always understood utterly, the TARDIS has all this going on, but the BBC couldn't afford to build the sets. :-) Hence it taking it to the USA, before they had the budget to even suggest part of it. :-)

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

It did to me. The console room looked like a room, which meant there were other rooms, not just garage/warehouse space. Later, when we saw some of the hinterlands, it didn't matter that they were so peculiar because there were habitable rooms.

The new one is less grotty than its predecessor, though, which is a step up.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I think we're going to have to agree to differ on that one. The Tardis never looked to me like anyone could live in it, or would want to.

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

There have been episodes over the years where we saw other parts of the TARDIS. I remember William Hartnell's Doctor sending Vicki to fetch a glass of water from the drinks dispenser, which was outside the control room, and she disturbed Barbara, who was doing some sewing.

I know. I'm old. :)