Jul. 17th, 2007
"Who" Are You?
Jul. 17th, 2007 09:21 amWhen I was younger, I used to periodically watch "Doctor Who" on WGBH (channel 2), the Boston local PBS station, or WENH (channel 11), the New Hampshire local PBS station. There were two slight problems with this approach to watching "Doctor Who":
1. The periodic nature of my watching meant that I ended up seeing the same bits (mostly of the Tom Baker years) over and over
2. Both GBH and ENH showed a half-hour block of "Doctor Who" (I believe) twice each day, but they weren't contiguous half hours. So I'd get the first half hour of an episode and then the first half hour of a different episode, and there was no guarantee that in the same block the next day they'd show the next half hour episode (it happened sometimes but not consistently).
Since 2005,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mabfan and I have become quite fond of the new (Russell T. Davies) "Doctor Who." And since he's finding places that my "Doctor Who" knowledge is lacking, mabfan has taken it upon himself to expand my "Who" horizons. So he acquired some "Doctor Who" DVDs from Mike's Comics, and last night we sat down to watch The Five Doctors.
And... I liked it. I found the pacing a little slow, but (asmabfan and I have discussed, and as Steven Johnson writes), television pacing in general has gotten much faster over the past 20 or so years. But the story was good, and the doctors' interactions with their companions and each other were entertaining.
Next up, The Three Doctors.
1. The periodic nature of my watching meant that I ended up seeing the same bits (mostly of the Tom Baker years) over and over
2. Both GBH and ENH showed a half-hour block of "Doctor Who" (I believe) twice each day, but they weren't contiguous half hours. So I'd get the first half hour of an episode and then the first half hour of a different episode, and there was no guarantee that in the same block the next day they'd show the next half hour episode (it happened sometimes but not consistently).
Since 2005,
mabfan and I have become quite fond of the new (Russell T. Davies) "Doctor Who." And since he's finding places that my "Doctor Who" knowledge is lacking, mabfan has taken it upon himself to expand my "Who" horizons. So he acquired some "Doctor Who" DVDs from Mike's Comics, and last night we sat down to watch The Five Doctors.And... I liked it. I found the pacing a little slow, but (as
mabfan and I have discussed, and as Steven Johnson writes), television pacing in general has gotten much faster over the past 20 or so years. But the story was good, and the doctors' interactions with their companions and each other were entertaining.Next up, The Three Doctors.
