Doctor Who...

 So it’s over! The 11^th series.

I don’t watch a lot of telly, and when I do I don’t normally watch it live/with everyone else, but I’ve made the effort and it’s been 1000% worth it!

2018 has been an odd year for me, as I’m sure it has been for us all, and DW has become an opportunity to forget all that and just wholeheartedly enjoy something. I haven’t wanted to get invested in it enough to feel disappointment or entitlement about the show, because that always makes watching a show frustrating, at least to me, so I don’t have much to say about it really.

More than anything else I just want to express my gratitude to Jodie Whittaker, who has been amazing! Just brilliant!!! There have been problems, with plots and such and really the whole series hasn’t quite pulled together for me, but Jodie as the Doctor has made it all worth it! And all the companions have been great – Graham and Ryan made me tear up this week.

I’ve loved the unapologetically hopeful tone and the sincere slightly cheesiness and I think that, despite the quality of the plots, most of the side character have been memorable and interesting and not at all flat.

If I had to arbitrarily rank the episodes I would go for It Takes You Away, Demons of the Punjab, and Kerblam! at the top (though I couldn’t pick a favourite), and The Ghost Monument at the bottom – nothing wrong with it, exactly, it just wasn’t particularly memorable.

Apart from DW, the last week or so has been taken up with the Tumblr shenanigans… Might make a post about this, but not now… I am apprehensive about the whole thing.