Bowties Are Cool

I wouldn't categorize myself as a Doctor Who ~fan.  I had seen a few episodes with the Tenth Doctor from various seasons with various companions. And while I always enjoyed the episodes I saw and wanted to start watching the show, I never got around to it.  So it's funny that the first full season of Who I've been able to watch was the latest season with the newest Doctor and I've done things completely out of order as usual.

A shiny blue box

 So I wanted to do a little write up about it, because I greatly enjoyed this season (series? Series 5, I believe).  I won't lie, it took me a little while to warm up to it, but by the end of the finale, I found myself searching my Tivo for more episodes.  I think there's something about not having gotten accustomed to a previous actor playing the Doctor (especially Ten's actor, David Tennant, who is beloved by many fans), because it allowed myself to be totally involved in Matt Smith's performance as Eleven.  Which is awesome!  Matt Smith makes the doctor silly and crazy and spastic, yet I love his serious side too.  You really believe him as this centuries old, last of the Time Lords, who's also kind of a badass.  He was so much fun to watch and do his thing, that while I can't necessarily call him ~my Doctor yet, he might be close.

Oh River Song, who are you?

 Ah though, Amy Pond is still a little confusing for me.  I didn't realize this until later, but I think my aversion to sassy redheads (ever since that trollop, Ginny Weasley, came along) turned me off Amy a bit.  I never disliked her, I just didn't feel really any affection for the character.  By the end of the season however, I was beginning to turn around on Amy and accept her more, a lot of it having to do with Karen Gillan, who is pretty fantastic.  I still don't ~love her, her sassiness rivals Ginny's a bit too much at times, but I'm getting there.  And I have to mention Rory, Amy's bumbling but adorable boyfriend, who I love a whole lot.  From what I've seen and heard of in past seasons, there's often some kind of ~romantic "thing" with the Doctor and his companion (and yes, there was a little bit of it in this season, although thankfully, not that much), and so I liked the fact that quite a bit of the episodes had to do with exploring Amy and Rory's relationship, which I find pretty adorable (when they're both not acting stupid).

I just liked this scene

So the season as a whole was put together pretty well, with an intriguing arc about the crack in the wall showing up everywhere in time, with some more stand alone episodes filled in (although even those all seemed to tie into the overreaching arc in the end).  There were a few clunkers here and there, such as "Victory To The Daleks" (but I find the Daleks completely grating in every possible way, so) and the two parter "The Hungry Earth" and "Cold Blood", but even so there were enough truly amazing episodes to make up for it.  "Time Of Angels" was one of the creepiest hours of TV I've seen and episodes like "Amy's Choice" and "Vincent and the Doctor" were emotional and thought-provoking.  Above all though, one thing that I completely love about the show is that it's always so clever. It fulfills my Sci-Fi cravings in new and interesting ways every time.  And the last two episodes of the series were amazing.  Funny and touching and emotional and exciting and shocking and scary and everything you could want from a finale.  As the Brits would say (I think)....BRILLIANT!

Thumbs up, Doctor!

So, if you like Doctor Who or Sci-Fi or British people or really just good TV, then I would recommend the newest season of Doctor Who!  Hopefully I can go back and catch up with all of the previous seasons of new Who, because I want to know everything I've missed.  Can't wait for the Christmas special! :D