A post weeks in the making...

And it's still going to be crap, I'm afraid.

I've been trying to write a blog about Doctor Who since it came back this year, but I've just not been able to find the words. Not because it's bad, because it's not. It's been good from what I've seen and I'm not hating it. But there are some things I'm not getting and it worries me.

Top of the list is, I'm sorry to say, Matt Smith. He's not bad, really he is not. I don't dislike him and he's had some great lines (I did like him crying 'Wrong!' at the exhibits in the museum) but he is just not feeling like The Doctor to me. He's doing his job he really is, I'm thinking it's just me. He's rather like Ecclescake - I feel like I'm watching an actor doing his job. A good actor, but an actor all the same. With Tennant, I have to say that I would never have been surprised if it had come to light that yes, OK, he was actually a Timelord and had access to a TARDIS and a sonic screwdriver. It's stupid, but he just WAS the Doctor to me. I know expressing this marks me out to have 'screaming fangurl!' thrown at me, but I can't help it. Sure, he was a rather pretty choice as well, but that wasn't what it was about. I'd never seen him in anything else (well, unless you count the Boots xmas ad, and yes, I did fancy the bloke in that - didn't connect it was him until WAY afterwards!) but he appeared on the screen and that was it. He was the Doctor and I never doubted it.

I feel bad saying it because some friends think he's great and I keep thinking 'Is it really me? Have I really got too old and set in my ways? Have I really been blinded by the easy on the eye-ness that was Tennant? ' But it's not that, I'm sure. It's still a wait and see thing, I guess.

Either way, I'm enjoying DW. I'm just unsure about The Doctor at the moment. Oh, and a bit unsure about Moff and his direction. This 'crack' seems to be a good device to wipe out the whole of Rusty's time. And although that would not be a complete bad thing in some respects (Yes Rose, I'm looking at you) If he wipes Ten, Martha, Donna and Wilf out of the timeline I will not be happy bunny.