elisi | Thoughts.

If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same
(T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding - many apologies)

I had a sort of mini-epiphany. I've said that the show now feels [in texture] like Classic Who, and that you could jump from then to now with no problem.

And I think that's the thing. The show has been re-booted, but it's still anchor-less. There is no part of it that makes it a continuation of New Who. (Except for Thirteen wearing Twelve's clothes and the shorter format etc etc, that's not what I am talking about.)

So far Thirteen is absolutely the Doctor, no doubt about it, and she's brilliant, but like... sort of in parallel to the past? Her stories could be set at any point. She could be a Classic Doctor, like... a re-cast Five? And you needn't change a thing.

I'm not saying this is bad. But it means there is nothing that really grabs me.

So, instead of complaining I'm off to watch Classic Who! Watched Battlefield last night (S26, ep 1, Seven's final season) and loved it to pieces. Next up is Ghostlight which

thisbluespirit bought for me. ♥ And once I'm done with Seven I'll start on Six properly. Hurrah for the 50+ years of show!

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Thank you for reminding me how much I enjoyed Battlefield. “Just between you and me, Mordred, I'm getting a little tired of hearing about your mother.”

And of course River's “Well then, soldier. How goes the day?” to Eleventy in A Good Man Goes To War is absolutely a conscious and precisely-chosen echo of Morgaine's “A warrior, no less. How goes the day?” to the Brigadier. (Consciously-chosen by River, I mean. Obviously deliberate by Moffat too, but it means in-story as well as out.)

And I think that's the thing. The show has been re-booted, but it's still anchor-less. There is no part of it that makes it a continuation of New Who. (Except for Thirteen wearing Twelve's clothes and the shorter format etc etc, that's not what I am talking about.)
This isn't entirely true, though. The lessons of Twelve are all over her, and maybe some of that is getting back to where things were before the war, but I'm pretty sure some of it is brand new. 'Be sure'? That has never happened on Doctor Who before.

Next up is Ghostlight which [personal profile] lost_spook bought for me. ♥ And once I'm done with Seven I'll start on Six properly. Hurrah for the 50+ years of show!

I don't want to be a nuisance hopping up and down and wanting to know if you have watched any of it yet, and whether or not you liked it, because, you know, no strings attached!

That said, btw, have you watched any of it yet? :-D

(I'm not hopping, though, I'm much too feeble for such things right now. Heh.)

Ghost Light is great. I remember when BBC Four showed it as part of the 50th anniversary (they had a story for each of the Classic doctors on the iPlayer and that was the one they picked for Seven).

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