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[rivendellrose]

I have seen the new trailer for S5 Doctor Who.

I'm pretty okay with Eleven as the new Doctor. I never particularly liked my first glimpse of any of the new or new-to-me Doctors (meaning One through Eight and then Ten, as Nine was the only one I came onto with no preconceptions), and I always end up loving them. So that's no problem. And it looks very pretty. And I'm excited to have the Weeping Angels back. And the Daleks, too, apparently. And... something, some kind of monster I don't recognize, too, so that could be exciting.

Amy looks really cute, too. I think I'll like her.

It's Amy and the Doctor that's giving me a little pause.

I'm getting really tired of the whole "the Doctor and his companion are in twu wuv!" angle. Particularly because the companion's apparent age keeps dipping lower and lower. I'm not sure how old Amy-the-character is going to be, but she appears to be... seventeen? And really, while I know the Doctor's always had a thing for hanging out with young girls, I think I preferred it in the good old days when they were at least out of high school. Hell, even Rose was out of high school.

It's possible I'm just feeling fussy about this because I'm both older and, after the last 'series' of specials and the end of last year, feeling a good bit crankier about Doctor Who than I've felt since starting to watch it. It's also possible I'm particularly cranky about the whole twu wuv angle because my brain's been niggling at me to write a bit of meta re: gender and storyline in one of my other fandoms, and it kind of makes me go "bleh!" right now. But on the whole I find that I'm increasingly annoyed with the way Doctor Who tends lately to be becoming more about the love and less about the Doctor and his companions of both genders running around the universe having adventures. In the old days, we did have companions of both genders. And the Doctor was usually nicer to his girls than to his boys (usually - see Jamie for a major disclaimer on that, as well as probably Fitz), but it wasn't so much "The Doctor, who takes girls around the universe and they fall in love with him" as it was "The Doctor, who takes humans around the universe and they have fun and adventures."

Anyway, I recognize it's probably unfair to judge Eleven and Amy's relationship based on a trailer alone, so I will shut up now and go back to being excited about the Weeping Angels and the Daleks and actually having a show to watch again, because gods know I need something new to watch rather than constantly wandering around in circles in the world's tiniest comic book fandom. :P

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[platoapproved.livejournal.com]

I think this is totally valid, but I have to say I wasn't picking up the romance vibe from the trailer? Now that I've rewatched it, I guess I can see the possibility of it, but. Maybe I'm just too hopeful that it won't happen and I'm being deliberately blind. I just have to try to have faith in Moffat.

I want to add Ian to the list of excepted males! I would say that Ian and the Doctor teased each other in equal measure, when they weren't being complete idiots and making chemistry puns and destroying Barbara's cardigans. ♥

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just paranoid about the romance angle, after everything we went through with Ten. :P I'm trying to have faith in Moffat, too, I've just gotten a bit gun-shy lately.

Awww, Ian. I really do need to see more of the stuff with him and Barbara and Susan. The bits I've seen have been fabulously cute.

[platoapproved.livejournal.com]

Ahh I have to remember which Ian ones I liked best - I'm still making my way slowly through chronologically. If you've not seen it, I loved him and Barbara in "The Romans", they were adorable. Pretty much any of the later episodes, even after Susan's gone, with Ian and Barbara in are great, after they've gotten more friendly with the Doctor and feel comfortable constantly mocking him. >D There's a running gag about them always needing to destroy Barbara's cardigans to save their skins. It's amazing.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

The more I think of it, the more I think "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" is the only Barbara & Ian serial I've seen. I've heard a lot of good things about "The Romans" - I'll have to put that on my list of to-watch episodes. The running gag about the cardigan sounds awesome, too!