They say you only have one Doctor. Sure, there may be other doctors, but they’ll come and go, your heart will remain true only to one Doctor.
For many of this generation of Dr Who watchers, David Tennant was our Doctor. (Some say it was Christopher Eccleston. Why? Will anybody explain?) We loved his cheeky smile, his wildly overacting eyebrow, his intimations of depth. We vowed to be more faithful to him than we had ever been to any mere partner.
We live in faithless times. Or perhaps, like the Doctor, I’ve got two hearts.
I love the new Doctor. I love the way that he’s taken the Tennant eyebrow school of acting and applied it to his entire face, no, his entire body. I love his Tom Baker inspired madness, his inability to correctly measure the time of which he is a lord.
I love his clothes (I also love him out of clothes). The moment he said ‘bow ties are cool’, it pretty much sealed the deal. For, sceptical reader, bow ties are cool. I never realised how cool they are until he said so, but then it hit me like a revelation. They are so cool that I want to wear one despite the danger of ending up looking like one of the butcher characters from Tipping the Velvet.
I think it was love at first sight. My grieving process for Tennant lasted precisely until Matt Smith bounced from the spot Tennant had fallen and started flailing his limbs around manically. I think this may be why many hate him, he cut off their grieving process too early - although come on, you did have that horribly drawn out 30 minutes (although it felt more like hours) of schmaltzy goodbyes to get over it.
A lot of fuss has been made in certain papers about the size of Amy Pond’s skirt. In fact, I’d say that the fuss is directly in inverse proportion to the size of the skirt.
Apparently, the actress (Karen Gilligan) chose a mini-skirt over trousers as more appropriate to the character. This makes no sense to me – she’s a kissogram. Whoever saw a kissogram in trousers? Come to think of it, who has ever actually seen a kissogram? I didn’t realise they existed, and imagined them to be a sort of hologram escort from sci-fi novels.
And does a small village with only a post-office have much of a market for a kissogram? How many men are there to kiss? Doesn’t it kind of take the excitement out of it when you know she’s just Amy Pond from next door but one dressed as a French maid?
Of course a mini-skirted kissogram was bound to aggravate the Mary Whitehouse brigade. A mini-skirt! In a show which – gasp – children watch?! Yes, but look out the window. In fact, look at your daughter, she’s probably wearing one.
Also,the idea of a kissogram is actually kind of sweet. The idea is that she goes to parties dressed up and kisses people. And that’s it. She kisses them. It’s practically 1930s in its innocence.
But yes, the show was a bit sexy – mainly for the chemistry between Amy and the Doctor. I definitely want them to get together. But kids aren’t unaware of sex, and are always going to get crushes on characters from their TV shows. When I was younger, I fancied Robin Hood the cartoon fox. At least the Doctor looks human.
There was also a plot in this episode which just about held together. I don’t think it was particularly important.
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