The Obligatory Doctor Who post

OK.. every other blog seems to have mentioned this at some point, so I guess I should get my two-penneth in as well.

Can I just how say much I have been loving the new series of Doctor Who. I was a big Doctor Who fan when I was a kid and it was on Saturday evenings. Memories of sitting at the coffee table in front of the telly eating fish fingers and watching the Pink Panther and then Doctor Who. I kinda faded out when it was slid to midweek evenings and that berk Colin Baker took over. And once Bonnie Langford appeared I had no time for it at all... which was a shame.




In the modern days of Buffy and Babylon 5 I always wondered why the Beeb never brought Dr Who back as I knew it could be made to be a superb show. Maybe they were just waiting for the right writing team.

I was very excited when they said they were relaunching it - I had high hopes, but also was expecting to be disappointed. And wow, did they ever get it right! I had fear that Billy Piper would be another Bonnie Langford, but thankfully she has proven to be an excellent assistant.

Russell T Davies has taken a leaf out of Joss Whedon and J. Michael Straczynski's books and introduced subtle hints to a much grander plotline (Bad Wolf) so that even stand-alond episodes have enough material to keep the internet fanboys chuntering about theories and speculation for weeks on end. For more on the Bad wolf theories click here , and here . Also check out Miss K's theories.

There was a wicked rumour doing the rounds that Norman Lovett (of Red Dwarf fame) was going to appear as Davros in the final episode. But this appears to have been a hoax that some people ended up falling for.

On the whole I have been really pleased. British TV has been sliding downhill recently with the current crop of reality TV and celebtrity shagfest/wrestling/jungle crud that has been clogging up the channels recently.

So yeah.. I'm happy. And loving the speculation on the forthcoming season finale. Its one of the only shows worth watching these days, along with 24 and Cold Case.

As a footnote - I am rather concerned at the kidnapping of a Dalek from Wookie Hole in Somerset. It appears that the kidnappers are demanding a ransom and wish to talk to the Doctor. I do hope that this does not sour relations and instigate another Dalek invasion. Shame that couldnt have kidnapped that prat Colin Baker instead. (of course the cynic in me wonders if this is not just a ploy to drum up publicity for their forthcoming Dr Who weekend..... hmm...)