The new series of Doctor Who starts on BBC One next Sunday, and it's about time.
We finally get to see Jodie Whittaker's doctor in action, and what I have literally no idea what is going to happen in Series 11, I've read interviews, I watched clips and from what I can gather there are a lot of changes that have been made with the best of intentions for the better. I don't really know much about the series or what's going to happen, all I know is that there are going to be ten hour-long episodes rather than twelve or thirteen forty-five minute episodes, no Daleks or Cybermen or any old monsters returning, it's all going to be fresh new ideas, it's looking to be the biggest reboot in the shows history since Series 5 in 2010.
Doctor Who is now going out on Sunday evenings instead of the usual Saturday prime time slot, which could prove to be a fairly good move. Moving the time around with having the show on a different day is not a new thing, it has been done before. In the early eighties when Peter Davison took over from Tom Baker, the fifth doctor era was three years of Doctor Who being on between Monday to Friday evenings, showing two episodes per week. The Sylvester McCoy era was on Monday's, but the traditional slot is Saturday nights. Saturday nights will always be Doctor Who's home, and maybe one day it will return to that slot.
I've seen bits and pieces about the new Doctor Who in Doctor Who magazine and things trending online, it's all very interesting and exciting to come across new information, but the thing is it sort of relates to people wanting to know, but not wanting to know, Doctor Who is one of these programmes which has expanded and grown throughout and it's a show that's loved by millions. There's a community of people who watch it, I'm not just talking about the fans, but it's a special thing where you find that this is a show unlike any other and people care about what happens to it, I only want the scripts and the content to be good above all else, and for the last few years it's been hit and miss. I hope that with a new approach this will a series that will work better and have new twists and turns and actually surprise me.
I'm starting to like Jodie Whittaker more, I wasn't keen on the idea of a female doctor, to begin with, a part of me still isn't happy by it, but I've accepted it and have moved forward since finding out about it. Over time I'm starting to like Jodie Whittaker more and more, I haven't thought much of her before she was announced as the Doctor and never really thought highly of her as an actress, but seeing her in interviews and clips of her as the Doctor has made me change my perspective of her slightly. I really want her to be good, and the chances are that she will.
It seems like there's a fresh new approach which is happening in the show, one of which is very exciting to a lot of people and I'm looking forward to getting to seeing it when the first episode airs next Sunday.
