I suppose I am looking forward to it, though in a different regard to usual. I found S11 to be rather underwhelming, but with the introduction of a new Doctor, new show runner, and a new lot of things really, I put my lack of enthusiasm down to growing pains for the new team at the helm of the series.
And then S12 happened.
Which I didn’t hate with a feverish passion, but for the first time since the revival of the series, I wasn’t looking forward to watching a new episode every week, something I had previously done for, well, over a decade when a series was running on television.
I’m intrigued as to how this era will wrap up, intrigued as to what happens with the specials next year, intrigued by the 60th anniversary and RTD’s return. I’ve personally been a bit of a miserable Doctor Who fan for a while now, so it’s nice to have that intrigue again.
Myself and my partner have been rewatching from the beginning of the revival over the last few months, they hadn’t seen anything past Smith’s first episode. It’s been really enjoyable, and lots of episodes I thought I disliked or didn’t remember all too well were actually great. I think watching this all again with someone else also makes me appreciate bits that I didn’t on my own. We’re four or five episodes into Capaldi’s first series now, who I think is the best actor to have portrayed the Doctor. Again, I thought I remembered some of his episodes to be quite pants, but not yet. And Capaldi is bringing something totally different to the Doctor from the three men before him. It’s so refreshing and made me fall in love with him almost immediately.
Don’t be lasagne.
