If you listening carefully, you can hear the sound of plaintive wailing. I'll probably stop eventually. For now, I can't quite get past Doctor Who becoming Doctor Who Junior, with a leading man who looks like a square-jawed emo teenager just like so many other leads in fantasy sci-fi.
I'm hopeful it won't become Smallville/Buffy/Whatever, and that the new management know what they're doing, and haven't been swayed by focus-group demographics. But oh, gracious me, he looks seventeen, and with as much authority as a drama major reading his own florid poetry.
I'll give him a chance, of course I will. I'm trying to be optimistic, really I am. I'll be quite happy to announce my concerns were groundless, and he's a wonderful Doctor. But the precipice that is Colin Baker yawns open before me...
It'll be fine. Really.
...plaintive wailing resumes...
1/04/2009
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It would be easy for me to mock your anxiety over this, not being an obsessive fan of anything so trivial [insert condescending elder-brother pat on the head here]. But I felt something similar when Daniel what's-his-name became 007. Where have you gone, Sean Connery?
I've noticed that sci-fi leads have indeed been lacking in quality lately. In fact, the male leads in basically anything have. I don't want to say there's any grand cultural statement to be made here, but there might be.
The last totally competent and believable male lead I ever saw in a sci-fi program was Nathan Fillion in the canceled-long-before-its-time series Firefly. Have you seen that?
Clare and I are not impressed. When kid-who came on the screen, our 11 year old son left the room. His love affair with all things 'who' may have come to an end. Which will mean we can cancel the direct debit for Dr Who Adventures (he gets it weekly in lieu of pocket money!)
Oh, do not get me started on Mr Potato-head Bond.
Jay, I have never had the pleasure of seeing Firefly, though lots of people who share my taste have recommended it. I shall certainly get around to it. Isn't Serenity the film connected to it? Nathan Fillion is no whippersnapper, is he? Very good, though, wasn't he in Buffy? Not that I ever watched Buffy, of course *cough*
Jonathan, I can well believe it. Eden has been fighting back tears, bless her. She does adore Ten, though, so she probably would have been sobbing whoever it was.
Oh, cheesed off doesn't even begin to cover it. This and the Narnia franchise being in doubt might just be what it takes to wean me off my trivial obsession for good.
Well, probably not, actually, but it's always possible...
Jay's right about Fillion and Firefly, which is indeed the movie from the series Serenity. It's a really great movie - if you remember that "great" is not a synonym for "happy."
And, ThirstyDavid, I could have warned you about bringing up Craig. I see I'm too late. Libbie's wrong about him, but it's the only thing she's wrong about, so....
Libbie, fwiw, I groaned and moaned when I read about Ian McKellan cast as Gandalf. I'd been holding out for Sean Connery. Now, I can't imagine a better Gandalf.
No, I can't imagine a better Gandalf either. Trouble is, I can imagine a better Doctor.
Och, it'll be fine. As long as they don't put him in skinny jeans and paint his nails black, I'll be ok.
(Bond, as potato. Shocking. One sparky exchange and some good casino scenes in the whole movie, and other than that he's SuperPotato, leaping buildings in a single bound and generally being a bit stupid and dull..)
Sir Sean, and the first four Bond films, were well done.
Sir "The Saint" Roger never did anything for me.
Pierce was good, but I didn't like the films. (I don't think he's a Sir yet.)
And I liked Daniel in Casino Royale. Haven't seen the second film yet.
I'm gonna have to check this Dr. Who out one of these nights.
Happy to hear your fam is feeling beter.
I know, I know - I do agree. And that nose - big enough to BE the Tardis...
But I did try; even went so far as to apply for the job myself - see http://gracepreacher.blogspot.com/2009/01/doctor-who-truth-at-last-new-doctor-has.html and follow the link...
Sorry Dan, but if I understand Libbie correctly, she's right about Bond. Of course, considering the language barrier, I may have gotten her completely wrong.
007 is not supposed to wear messy hair and a perpetual pucker, and he most certainly cannot be blond. Dan, you look more 007ish than DC, hair and all.
Sure sign you're getting old, when the Doctors start looking so young.
Did you read the books, though, David? I did, though it was over 35 years ago. Blond wasn't particularly debonair or funny, IIRC. He was brutal, and not particularly moral. I think Craig actually captures the book Bond pretty darned well.
Dan, no, I have not read them. I had a friend in HS who was a big fan, but I was reading Augustine, Calvin, and Bavinck. OK, not really. I was reading Dickens and Poe.
The only thing I know of Flemming's Bond is that (I have heard) he actually drank his martini "stirred, not shaken."
I normally despise those who see movies without first having read the books. I suppose now I'll have to read at least one of these or forever shut up about it.
*preens* Actually, I have read the books. He was brutal and utterly ruthless, yes. No-one has captured that since Connery, he of the 'That's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your six' for me, least of all a pouting spud posing in skimpy trunks. Dalton came closest, I think. From Russia with Love and The Living Daylights remain my favourites.
Wailing with you, Libbie! :¬( He will have to *grow* a bit before he can grow on me!
Roger Moore was by far the best Bond, IMO. Just so smooth... ;¬)
David, if you do read one, do not tell yourself or anyone that it was because I recommended it.
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Let the record show that Daniel J. Phillips in no way influenced my purchase today of Casino Royale. No significance should be attached to the fact that it had never occurred to me to do so before he brought it up.
Duly noted. Thank you.
Hey... wait a minute....
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