I wish I could stop thinking about fucking Torchwood already.
Yes. For both myself and my 13 year old brother, who I dragged into watching CoE (I did catch him up with series 1 and 2 afterwards) with me. Poor kid can't understand why CoE decided to fail and has been trying to console himself with the audiobooks, radioplays, and a sad Ianto inspired playlist I provided him.
This interaction between the doting, devoted (we as an audience might say "foolish") underdog and an uncommunicative, closed off stronger half, Russell really digs that shit.
During this past year I've gone back and started Doctor Who from the very very beginning (I'm up to Doctor #3 with Jo) and I was trying to sort out why the classic companion stories work so much better than the New!Who companions, and this is exactly it. Of all the classic companions I've seen, none of them have been as dependent and mindless as Rose. I can find redeeming things about Martha and I loved Donna, but Rose is the archetype from which RTD is basing all the other companions off of and it sucks. :/
I don't know how he's managed to keep this view of romantic relationships past puberty. After my brother finished season 2, he was genuinely confused as to why Jack and Ianto's relationship was suddenly weird and had a lack of making out.
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Date: 2009-07-27 06:00 pm (UTC)Yes. For both myself and my 13 year old brother, who I dragged into watching CoE (I did catch him up with series 1 and 2 afterwards) with me. Poor kid can't understand why CoE decided to fail and has been trying to console himself with the audiobooks, radioplays, and a sad Ianto inspired playlist I provided him.
This interaction between the doting, devoted (we as an audience might say "foolish") underdog and an uncommunicative, closed off stronger half, Russell really digs that shit.
During this past year I've gone back and started Doctor Who from the very very beginning (I'm up to Doctor #3 with Jo) and I was trying to sort out why the classic companion stories work so much better than the New!Who companions, and this is exactly it. Of all the classic companions I've seen, none of them have been as dependent and mindless as Rose. I can find redeeming things about Martha and I loved Donna, but Rose is the archetype from which RTD is basing all the other companions off of and it sucks. :/
I don't know how he's managed to keep this view of romantic relationships past puberty. After my brother finished season 2, he was genuinely confused as to why Jack and Ianto's relationship was suddenly weird and had a lack of making out.