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Apr. 11th, 2010 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
