Well, its over … and it’s going to be a L O N G wait until Christmas.
What’s over? – Why, the best TV show of the Season – the new Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston as the 9th Doctor. You say you never heard of Doctor Who, or if you have, you thought it went off the air years ago? Well – it did go off the air in 1989 – but Russell T Davies brought it back to the BBC and its been fantastic!
Yep, its not a US show – its the hottest new show on the BBC and we can’t get it here!
This was a new show, but with references to the background story of the old shows. But it still played well for the folks (like Emma) who never saw any of the old shows.
And tonight was the last of the 13 episodes for this new season, and even though we knew that Eccelston was only doing this one season, it was still a great series of stories arced to this final event, when the Doctor “regenerates” into a new persona and appearance (a cat may have 9 lives, The Doctor has 13) …
If it was available to watch realtime I would have done it – I would have paid $5 or more per episode to watch it on pay-per-view simultaneously with the UK audience. Instead, I had to hunt around the dark corners of the internet to find it … and I am quite glad I did!
It has been the high point of my TV watching week – kind of like the old days of Babylon V – and its so popular the BBC has agreed to another 2 seasons!
But – no more new shows until Christmas – when “The Christmas Invasion” will air ..