Return of an old friend

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Doctor Who may be the only show that I've ever binge-watched, which I did almost exactly two years ago whilst still living in Houston and working from home.  In those days, I was still struggling to work out the kinks, acclimating myself to almost zero social interaction during the day and setting my own schedule.  I was having a time of it, striving for the correct balance between being productive but also not overwhelmed with constantly working because my "office" was a few steps away and started an episode of Who in the evenings to catch my breath and a break, beginning with the Christopher Eccleston 2005 reboot.  My one-episode-per-night... which quickly became a handful of episodes during the day.  And then turned into full days of exploring all of space and time with the Doctor, courtesy of an Amazon prime membership.  To this day, I maintain a not-so-secret crush on David Tennant, my very favourite Doctor, because of the wonderment and laughter he was able to provide me during a very solitary summer.

This weekend, the newest season of Doctor Who began with the newest reincarnation of the Doctor.  Although he may have a face that looks older, there is much that the writers preserved of the familiar Doctor Who set up that we all know and love.  Slightly outrageous (okay, incredibly outrageous) fantastical science fiction plot elements and groan-worthy one-liners are still the name of the game and it was almost with a sigh of relief that I found those elements to be unchanged.  Even though it was only two years ago that I met him, a lot has changed since then and I am again confronted with solitude, of a little different kind this time around.  It's funny, those things that reassure us that all is right with the world and surprisingly, or rather unsurprisingly, it was Doctor Who once again that made it all okay.  And so it was that this weekend, for pure pleasure and joy and a bit of an escape, I welcomed the Doctor into my home for another adventure.


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  1. I really want to start watching the Doctor Who series but I'm a bit overwhelmed at how terribly behind I am on it.

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  2. Would you slap me if I told you I wasn't a fan? It's just too weird for me, too baffling. Having lived in the UK, I knew one or two super fans. A friend of mine told me it was the only show on tv that her children were truly frightened by (yet they loved it).

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  3. I captured the new Doctor in the DVR, but haven't watched yet. My time was wasted on a broken (and leaking) washing machine, followed by a trip to the laundromat.

    Two years. Did the doctor arrive ahead of me? :)

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  4. You know I haven't watched the recent Dr. Who, but I used to love it as a kid. I wonder if it would be better or worse than I remember it? I know how much you love it so I assume it's good.

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  5. I've read a lot of Doctor Who posts . . . this one's a favorite.

    As for me, I'm in the catching up on last year's season of shows. I've started with Hell on Wheels (which, by the way, I'm liking the best of all seasons so far), to be followed by Elementary . . . :)

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  6. I need to check out this show, it seems like everybody loves it!

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  7. if only i could say there was only one show that binge watched. i can't, there's so many. this isn't one of them though. fisher and i started it to watch it and then i guess we kind of forgot about it. i don't think i got very far in, maybe 4 episodes? i need to try to watch it again. i didn't think it was the best show every but i liked it a lot and thought it was fun. definitely a fun escape.

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  8. I really need to get on the Doctor Who train. It's about time. I am a big fan of Red Dwarf, another British silly sci-fi, so it isn't a question of it not being up my alley. I think I'm overwhelmed by how big the franchise is? How many doctors there have been? Maybe that's it. xo

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  9. I've never watched Doctor Who (and only have a vague idea of what's about), but I might have to start now that Benedict Cumberbatch is involved :-)

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  10. can you imagine that I don't have the slightest idea what Dr. Who is about....

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  11. A few months before I moved to NY with my now husband, I came up to visit and as the weather was so bad, we spent the entire weekend in bed binge watching the first season. We're behind in watching as we still don't have cable...but I don't mind too much.

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