Oh man, I adore "Love and Monsters." I thought it was fun and creative and utterly charming. I really love Jackie as a character, so I liked that outsider's peek at her life that we got. Plus, stories about people drawn together into unlikely friendships always appeal to me.
On Jack: I enjoyed him well enough during the first season and I loved when he showed up for 'Utopia' because that entire episode was gold, but I've never been super excited for him. And Torchwood bores the hell out of me.
On the subject of the Jack/Rose/Doctor OT3, I can take it or leave it. How much I buy a pairing usually has much more to do with how well a fic is written/sets the pairing up than the canonical basis of the relationship itself. Like rallalon has a fantastic post-'Parting of the Ways' Ten/Rose/Jack series, but that's really the only one that's sold me on it so far.
You know this already, but I really don't love Eccleston as the Doctor. It's funny, because I tend to like Nine in fic, and I like Eccleston a lot as an actor in other things, and I like when he's playing the Doctor in angry moments, or sad moments, but he just has these moments of this sort of dopey goofiness that grate on me and I for the life of me cannot figure out why. I wish I liked him more! Season 1 is so good but whenever he says something like "bananas are good!" I am filled with this totally mysterious irritation. Seriously, I don't even know why!!!
I agree that having more Jacobi as Master would have been AWESOME, but... I adore Simm in that part, and I think the way they did the reveal as the Master was sort of perfect. 'Utopia' is one of my favorite episodes because I think the writing/pacing is like SUPERB.
My unpopular opinion: Midnight fucking OWNED every single Moffat episode, all of which I liked a lot. But Midnight KILLED THEM WITH ITS AMAZING. I also think Human Nature/Family of Blood were better than the Moffat episodes.
Another sort-of unpopular opinion: I like it when the Doctor is unhappy. I mean, I like him happy too, but I adore the angst. I'm not at all upset that the brown-suit Doctor is left on his own. I mean, 'Doomsday' is one of my favorite episodes purely for the indescribable heartbreak of those last few scenes. SO GOOD.
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On Jack: I enjoyed him well enough during the first season and I loved when he showed up for 'Utopia' because that entire episode was gold, but I've never been super excited for him. And Torchwood bores the hell out of me.
On the subject of the Jack/Rose/Doctor OT3, I can take it or leave it. How much I buy a pairing usually has much more to do with how well a fic is written/sets the pairing up than the canonical basis of the relationship itself. Like
You know this already, but I really don't love Eccleston as the Doctor. It's funny, because I tend to like Nine in fic, and I like Eccleston a lot as an actor in other things, and I like when he's playing the Doctor in angry moments, or sad moments, but he just has these moments of this sort of dopey goofiness that grate on me and I for the life of me cannot figure out why. I wish I liked him more! Season 1 is so good but whenever he says something like "bananas are good!" I am filled with this totally mysterious irritation. Seriously, I don't even know why!!!
I agree that having more Jacobi as Master would have been AWESOME, but... I adore Simm in that part, and I think the way they did the reveal as the Master was sort of perfect. 'Utopia' is one of my favorite episodes because I think the writing/pacing is like SUPERB.
My unpopular opinion: Midnight fucking OWNED every single Moffat episode, all of which I liked a lot. But Midnight KILLED THEM WITH ITS AMAZING. I also think Human Nature/Family of Blood were better than the Moffat episodes.
Another sort-of unpopular opinion: I like it when the Doctor is unhappy. I mean, I like him happy too, but I adore the angst. I'm not at all upset that the brown-suit Doctor is left on his own. I mean, 'Doomsday' is one of my favorite episodes purely for the indescribable heartbreak of those last few scenes. SO GOOD.