DOCTOR WHO

     I feel that this blog is long overdue. I mean I’ve been watching Doctor Who since... I don’t know, like since middle school. For those of you who have never watched or even heard of Doctor Who, you can kind of tell already that it’s a T.V show. Doctor Who, which is on BBC, is a science fiction series. Its about a man, not from our world, with technologies that humans on Earth could never dream of. (What the hell is up with me and my science/space/technology obsession?) Beginning in 1963, Doctor Who was about “The Doctor”, the main character who is a quirky individual. He is strange because, although he has the appearance of a human, he is actually a Time Lord from a planet called Gallifrey. The last of the Time Lords, the doctor travels through time and space, searching and searching. For what, I don’t know. Maybe searching for companionship since his life is a solitary one. The Doctor uses the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) On the outside, it looks like any old police box in England, but in reality it wasn't really a police box at all. In fact, once inside the box, the space expands to hold a futuristic room that couldn't possibly fit into the police box. It was in fact a ship that could travel in time and space! And so began the travels with the Doctor…
      David Tennant, Doctor Who’s tenth doctor was the first actor in the show I saw the first time I watched Doctor Who. I don’t know what was so interesting about him. Now I know. David Tennant was probably one of the greatest doctors in the series. He made the show come to life with his acting and it shows because when it was finally time for him to end his career as the tenth doctor, almost every fan of Doctor Who was saddened at the thought of losing him and protested.
     One of the things I thought was an ingenious idea was the idea that in the show, the Doctor is able to regenerate whenever he is critically injured. This gives way to many possibilities since the show is able to go on for virtually forever. What I’m saying is that if Doctor Who continues to run in the future, some of the actors might die and here is where the ability to regenerate comes in handy. If the current doctor is unable to act, there is always the possibility to regenerate the doctor into the thirteenth, or fourteenth and etc. I believe that is one of the reasons this show is so successful unlike the other shows where there is a fixed set of main characters with one person acting, but with Doctor Who, anyone could play the Doctor because he can change appearances. This show is hard to review because it’s always changing, the characters, the plot, anything can happen since it’s a science fiction show. The only way I can think of talking about it is episode by episode. I might do that…O_o