staying out of trouble. badly.

[kaydeefalls]

Have just watched latest Who. If 5x01 (yes, I am calling this season 5 of New Who, I refuse to start over at 1 again) was all about me falling in love with Eleven (WHICH I DID), 5x02 is all about me falling in love with Amy Pond. OH MY GOODNESS. She breaks rules! She snarks! She calls the Doctor on his bullshit! She is kind of fucked up and broken herself! LOVE.

I mean, I adore all the New Who companions. Every single one. But I think Amy is the first one I think I'd actually want to hang out with.

Also, Matt Smith's Doctor is definitely developing his own quirks and personality now. And I love it. (Again, I love all Doctors, much as I love all companions. This show is pure unadulterated fannish love for me, even the bits I don't actually like that much and just decide to ignore. Like the interminable specials last year, though they gave us Lady Christina; would've preferred to jump straight from "Journey's End" to the regeneration, thanks. But then, I still think the regeneration should have happened in "Journey's End" to begin with, but this is a loooong tangent now so close parantheses.) Um, yes. I love that Eleven has kind of the quirky old professor thing going on, with his outfit and his speech patterns, but with a side of childish wonder and a contradictory edge of hardness. If Nine was all jagged edges and sharp, abrasive sarcasm, and Ten was glib silliness masking the Oncoming Storm (and oh, Ten got to go to some very dark places, and that's right up my alley), Eleven is...hard. Not quite uncaring, because he clearly does care, but he seems much more willing to shut off that part of himself. The way he just closes himself off and shuts Amy down...whoa. And I don't mean this in a negative way at all -- I love that Matt Smith is bringing something new to the role, something all his own, and I love the way Eleven's contradictory characteristics balance each other out, as in the previous Doctors. But I think Eleven has a far greater capacity for cruelty than either Nine (who wore his abrasiveness as his armor, deliberately keeping people at arm's length) or Ten (who made the hard choices and hated them, but even the worst things he did were always accompanied by guilt/remorse -- "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"). Eleven is...yeah, hard is the best word I can come up with right now, and not in the porny way. And I find him absolutely fascinating.

MORE NOW PLEASE.

Comments

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Yes! I was still a bit uncertain about Amy at the end of 5x01 (I agree with the insistence on calling this season 5; despite how much of the team changed, the eras are still contiguous in a way that pre and post-2005 DW are not). That uncertainty is gone. I am not prepared to go into the OMG BEST EVAH squee explosions I've seen around, because I love Rose, Donna, and the other RTD-era companions so very much that no matter what it's going to take more than two episodes for another companion to reach that level in my heart, but I am now officially on the Amy Pond fanwagon. Huzzah!

Overall, I like your analysis of Eleven. I think in this episode he was just so furious at the humans forcing him to do something so horrible when he'd just gotten his fresh start that it made him lash out at Amy. I'm not sure I would say that he has more capacity for cruelty than Nine or Ten, at least not yet, but hardness is a great word for some of the behavior we've seen when he's not adorably jumping over benches for no particular reason.

[andrealyn]

God, I just, I love the both of them. I love that he seems like this old man in a young man's body and that they've got this incredible FRIENDS-vibe. And I love that she can pick locks and has some Jeff Murdoch dialogue (RESULT!) and and and...SO MUCH AND.