Doctor Who

For those who don’t know, I love Doctor Who.. In the 5 seasons of the new Doctor Who, they are on the 3rd Doctor. The 2nd Doctor, David Tennant, being the best, in my not humble opinion. This is just a quick ramble about season 5. No real spoilers, really.

I’m enjoying the season for the most part. I like the new Doctor (Matt Smith). He’s no Tennant, but Tennant was amazing, so I can only hold that against him so much. My bigger problem is the writers, not the actors.

Love Amy.

Rory is an idiot… or perhaps just reacts more realistically than I want in my campy sci-fi adventure series.

Love that they brought back River (from Season 4, “Silence in the Library”) to play a prominent role this season.

I really like how they have woven the overarching season’s story into almost every episode. That’s much better than past seasons. They have placed small hints throughout the earlier seasons (Bad Wolf, anyone?), but they have gone full out this season, bringing in the main season plot in the first half of the first episode. It really makes the two part season finale seem a continuation and resolution of the story we already know, instead of just another plot that springs up to close out the season.

So mostly I love the season… except for the Doctor. I want the laid back, confident, very wise persona that comes with being 900 years old and a Lord of time. Instead, they have Matt Smith playing a Doctor who doesn’t know what is going on and not quick witted enough to have survived 900 years. They want me to believe this man lead the charge and defeated the Daleks in the greatest war in the history of time? He doesn’t even seem to be able to put 2 and 2 together half the time. This isn’t a problem with Matt Smith. I think he is playing the Doctor they have written. After surviving (winning) over 900 years, the Doctor should be incredibly smart (the most genius in any room of genius), insanely clever, perceptive, and just because it makes for great tv, incredible lucky. We are getting the lucky Doctor (he has to be, he’s an idiot), but he can’t perceive anything even when being blatantly told (see episode 12 where River is trying to get through his thick skull). This is the man humanity and aliens alike are supposed to put their trust in to save the day? Not bloody likely.

That being said, I can’t wait for part two of the season finale.