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Since everyone's posting about the DW S5 filming shots...

First, I'm happy that the emo black we saw Matt Smith in earlier isn't Eleven's actual outfit. He looks sort of...frumpy. Heh. Well, that would actually fit the Doctor. (But the colors really do nothing for MS's hair and complexion. /shallow)

But I realized something when I looked at the pictures. I...just don't care. I'm not excited about it, nor am I cursing the heavens that River Song is back and they're filming at Bad Wolf Bay.

I said I'd give S5 a shot, but now I'm wondering why. It's not like I'd planned on boycotting the show due to The Moff. I was planning on giving it a chance, treating it like a whole new show in my mind, but...it's sort of feeling like an obligation to watch rather than anything I'm looking forward to. Meh.

I think a lot of that is that there's this whole other universe in DW now, and one that I am interested in. Fandom can go on and do battle over who exactly gets to have sex with the Doctor. I'll be happily imagining happyfun adventures of the Doctor and Rose, complete with plentiful (and hysterical) Doctor and Jackie battles.

"Oh, the other Doctor is battling Cybermen again, while women swoon? Eh. I'll be in the altverse."

ETA: I figured out what this is like for me. It's like trying to care about Stargate: Atlantis when all I've ever been into was Stargate: SG-1. Sure the Stargate was there and Sam Carter turned up and the franchise goes on, but... Eh.

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WORD.

I feel like I should either be bouncing or full of rage, and I'm just not.

River Song is back and they're filming at Bad Wolf Bay

WHAT?!?!?!?!

You're kidding, right??? Please say you're kidding! >_< Well, there goes my motivation for watching season 5. *sighs*

Moffat is a decent writer who can create entertaining plots with funny dialogue. I don't think his Doctor Who is going to be bad or tank in the ratings or anything like that - so if I could get past some of my reservations, it would probably be fun to watch.

But I feel connected to RTD's version of the show, and that's definitely coming to an end. Maybe this makes me a bad DW fan or whatever, but all the casting/character changes on the show make it hard for me to keep caring.

Hurrah for the altverse and its journals!

Oh my word, Eleven's outfit. It's like something I would be tempted to wear semi-ironically (but only semi-) if I were a guy academic about to give a lecture instead of a girl one. I thought he would have a look drastically different from Ten's though. This way, Ten is better dressed, but they both look pretty academic/geeky. (Bow tie! Hee!)

That is one blue TARDIS, though. Like I said before, I'm going to miss the happy coral TARDIS as much as the Doctor.

I'm very bleh about it myself, and I'm not even the fan of certain Dr Who areas that you are (does that make sense? ;D). Anyway, I will watch his first ep, just to see. I'm hoping he can make me interested, because at the moment I'm Just Not Bothered.

Also, it makes me really, really sad that both the Doctor and the Assistant are SO YOUNG OMG.

I'm reminded almost of the outfit Ten wore in "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood".

I was kinda hoping he might be dressed like the publicity shots released before, but ah well.

I'm sure it'll be good. *Keeps faith*

*AGREES WITH THIS COMMENT*

It's left me with the taste of 'meh' in my mouth. So, yeah, agreed.

*ICON LOVE*

I'm laughing at Moffat but I wrote off S5 off once I found out that Moffat was taking over.

I'm sorry but Eleven/River will never not be creepy to me and add that he'll be traveling with the other companion at the same time and it just becomes laughable and kind of laughable creepy at the same time.

Moffat is trying way too hard. Filming at Bad Wolf Bay proves that.

I will try to give a chance to series 5... but I think I should not. Just to keep my sanity safe. Lol

Yes. This.

Can you link me to the pictures? I feel like spoiling myself

Okay.. Alex Kingston is older than me and now I will call RiverSong Mrs. Robinson.

Moffatt is insistent on cramming this in I guess, likely because this was one of his young boy fantasies.

I was hoping to be a little more excited when I saw the first pics but I too am, meh.

I figure I'll give it a try. I'm excited for a fresh start. If the show collapses on itself, it does. I've been thru doctor switches before and XD; I hope to make it through another!

I'm hoping it will be good and I'm enthusiastic for new/fresh things. I'm not FANDOM excited over it, but I'm excited for a change and for a step back, and I think that's what I needed?

~~As long as it's me that gets to be having sex with the Doctor~~

Ahem. ;)

I am so excited I can't sit still! I've been bouncing off the ceiling all day long, because I have fallen hard for Matt Smith, and the nerdy science teacher look ticks all my boxes.

But, I do understand the ambivalence some fans are feeling, if certain other actors had been given the role, I'd be feeling that too, and one of them would have made me boycott the show.

I hope everyone does try to give it a chance. I think it'd be a shame to pass it up, because you may find you actually love it. Even if only as a guilty pleasure when you think Ten and Other!Ten aren't looking. :D

Heh. She's back. You can see her in the first filming shots. No idea if she's in one episode or will be recurring.

Like I mentioned to you in the email, it's like trying to care about SGA when all I've ever been into is SG-1. I'm sure it'll have its own hard-core fans. And I'm sure the battle will rage on over the superiority of the eras.

"RTD'S WHO >>>>>>>> MOFFAT'S WHO!!!11!"

"MOFFAT'S WHO >>>>>>> RTD'S WHO!!!11!"

And all I can keep mustering is an "eh." :D

Hurrah for the altverse and its journals!

Heee!

Oh my word, Eleven's outfit. It's like something I would be tempted to wear semi-ironically (but only semi-) if I were a guy academic about to give a lecture instead of a girl one. I thought he would have a look drastically different from Ten's though. This way, Ten is better dressed, but they both look pretty academic/geeky. (Bow tie! Hee!)

I am sort of glad they're not trying to make him fashionable. Nine and Ten really were the exception to the Doctor's general sense of fashion. Eleven's outfit is a bit wretched, and I think that's a good thing.

That is one blue TARDIS, though. Like I said before, I'm going to miss the happy coral TARDIS as much as the Doctor.

The TARDIS is practically glowing! I've always liked the more worn look on it though.

I was thinking of that outfit too! Really like John Smith.

I'm very bleh about it myself, and I'm not even the fan of certain Dr Who areas that you are (does that make sense? ;D). Anyway, I will watch his first ep, just to see. I'm hoping he can make me interested, because at the moment I'm Just Not Bothered.

It's feeling a bit like a show that should be going off the air, but yet is being hooked up to life support. At least for me. (I know I shouldn't say that about a decades-old show that is supposed to go on forever, but...)

Also, it makes me really, really sad that both the Doctor and the Assistant are SO YOUNG OMG.

I'm hoping that Eleven's personality will be really old and stuffy, but yet he's stuck in a young body. That would be amusing. (The bow tie makes me hopeful for this.)

Yeah, I googled and saw the pics. And Eleven's suit!!!

I hate to say it but...

DT's brand of geekiness was smexy, Matt Smith's is decidedly... not smexy.

At all.

I just can't get excited about it.

Yeah, I found the whole River relationship to be very icky. But I suppose that now there will be Eleven/Amy shippers and Eleven/River shippers, and ship wars between the two. And then there will be those that claim that OTP shippers are idiots and the only cool way to do fandom is to have the three of them have sex...

Just thinking about it makes me tired.

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