Doctor Who returns with a bang!

Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor

The new season of Doctor Who is finally here, and it's a cliffhanger! Doh! Doctor Who fans are very familiar with the Daleks (as they are his greatest enemy), but this new season is starting with twirling the entire concept of the Daleks and switching it all up. I won't give away any details, but let's just say we didn't understand the Dalek's nearly as much as we believed.

 

Every new doctor takes a while to get really going, but I love this new one. He's edgy, strange, and wonderful, just as the Doctor should be. This Doctor is afraid. Afraid of what he's done and could do.

 

I'm loving it all. It's like the old Buck Rogers show, or the cliffhanger serials they used to show in early movie theaters. I'm finally seeing the wonder and excitement of television unafraid to be ridiculous and inventive. It's hypnotic. Did I mention I love the new doctor? Well, it's because he started with a full realization of who his character would be. His doctor is haunted, impulsively searching for a bright future as he strains to forget the past.

 

Doctor Who has always been a crazy show, doing brilliant escapism as we roll our eyes at the ridiculousness of it all. Who cares how well these stories hold up against analysis? I sure don't. All that matters is the fun of the show and the imagination of unending new worlds and experiences. Let your brain take it all in and have fun with it. There's nothing wrong with fun, is there?

 

- M