In which Zana is ANGSTY about British television. And not Pros, for once!

[zana16]

So, going on sharkopath's recommendation, I decided to watch Doctor Who.

First of all, I discovered that Macs can now do Netflix on demand! This is probably a Very Bad Thing for Zana, but for the moment I am love love loving it.

I wasn't sure about the first three episodes or so, but in the middle of the fourth I realized oh my god this is the best thing ever, and have been watching steadily since then.

So. Besides BEST THING EVAR, I have only two things to say about Doctor Who:



1) For an extinct race, the Daleks sure show up a whole lot in this show.

2) For fuck's sake, why didn't somebody warn me that the Doctor was going to die??? (It's not a spoiler, the season ended years ago.) I fall in love with characters, okay? If I'd known he was just going to bugger off into spacetime and save the universe and Rose Tyler, I wouldn't have bothered falling (as much) in love with him! The tenth Doctor is, I admit, pretty awesome, but I don't trust this series enough to fall in love with him, too. Cause then, once I was thoroughly in love with her, Rose left the show too. (Also not a spoiler, any idiot can read a cast list for season 3 and deduce that the Companion is going to change. It's just that this particular idiot didn't.) Also, Mickey. I knew he wouldn't come back on the show, but I kept being pleasantly surprised: hey, he's in this episode! Wow! Oh gosh, he's in this one too! Now he's locked in a parallel universe, he won't be on the show anymore... no wait! There he is! And then... there he wasn't anymore. *sob*

By this we deduce that Zana has trouble with change.

Mmmm, I'm really liking Torchwood, too. Except for that cannibal episode, that was just nightmarish.

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[zana16.livejournal.com]

So I'm not the only one!

Everyone else has had years to get used to this but it's all very new to me. I should perhaps take up actually watching shows when they air, but instead I tend to come to them months or even years later. I came to The Lone Gunmen and X-Files years after the fandom was dead and gone. And then there's Professionals fandom, where the show aired before I was even born... Coming into a fandom with thirty years of history was eye-opening. I guess Doctor Who has forty-something years of history, but I haven't seen any of the old stuff, really cause I wouldn't know where to start. And then there'd be more Doctors to fall in love with and then they'd die, too. :(