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So there have been three new David Tennant Doctor Who specials in the lead up to RTD taking back the reigns and in the gap between Jodi Whittaker as Thirteen and Ncuti Gatwa as Fourteen? Fifteen?. And they are starring David Tenant and Catherine Tate who haven't been on Doctor Who in agessss.
Now, I haven't watched Doctor Who consistently since Matt Smith's run. It's a whole host of reasons I'm sure - life changed, my friends weren't watching, turns out Moffat has some....flaws....at being a showrunner - but the one that I keep coming back to is that I wasn't really in the fandom anymore, was I? I watched Doctor Who partly so I could join the Torchwood fandom in the first place. So I think when the fandom corners I was in died out, a bit of my interest in the source material died too.
(...also I'm convinced that some of the reason the fandom died out WAS because of Moffat giving us less to work with, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.) (ALSO also I'm still disappointed with the resolution to the River Song storyline, I still miss the days when people were connecting River Song to Jack Harkness in all sorts of fun clever ways.)
THAT ALL SAID I watched the first two specials and actually I loved them in that kind of shameless dorky way you love things when they recapture a bit of magic for you years after you've stopped looking. They weren't perfect (what was happening with David's hair) but also, who cares I love them.
I haven't watched the third one. My friends who watched the first two with me have already done so, but I was busy that weekend so there was no push factor. And a little bit I don't want the magic to end? I mean, it's Ten and Donna Noble! My heart!
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AND WHILE WE ARE HERE. Gareth David-Lloyd was in the National Theatre production of The Corn is Green, which wouldn't mean anything except that the National Theatre keeps advertising to me on my youtube videos that it's availible to stream now. And every time I'm like OH THAT IS GARETH DAVID-LLOYD'S FACE so I'll probably have to figure out how to watch it even though I actually find it really hard to sit through recorded live theater for whatever reason.
Now, I haven't watched Doctor Who consistently since Matt Smith's run. It's a whole host of reasons I'm sure - life changed, my friends weren't watching, turns out Moffat has some....flaws....at being a showrunner - but the one that I keep coming back to is that I wasn't really in the fandom anymore, was I? I watched Doctor Who partly so I could join the Torchwood fandom in the first place. So I think when the fandom corners I was in died out, a bit of my interest in the source material died too.
(...also I'm convinced that some of the reason the fandom died out WAS because of Moffat giving us less to work with, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.) (ALSO also I'm still disappointed with the resolution to the River Song storyline, I still miss the days when people were connecting River Song to Jack Harkness in all sorts of fun clever ways.)
THAT ALL SAID I watched the first two specials and actually I loved them in that kind of shameless dorky way you love things when they recapture a bit of magic for you years after you've stopped looking. They weren't perfect (what was happening with David's hair) but also, who cares I love them.
I haven't watched the third one. My friends who watched the first two with me have already done so, but I was busy that weekend so there was no push factor. And a little bit I don't want the magic to end? I mean, it's Ten and Donna Noble! My heart!
*
AND WHILE WE ARE HERE. Gareth David-Lloyd was in the National Theatre production of The Corn is Green, which wouldn't mean anything except that the National Theatre keeps advertising to me on my youtube videos that it's availible to stream now. And every time I'm like OH THAT IS GARETH DAVID-LLOYD'S FACE so I'll probably have to figure out how to watch it even though I actually find it really hard to sit through recorded live theater for whatever reason.
