{"id":3848,"date":"2010-04-05T18:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2010-04-05T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T20:42:22","slug":"these-go-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3848","title":{"rendered":"These go to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You know when grown-ups tell you everything’s going to be fine and you think they’re probably lying to make you feel better?”
\n“Yes…?”
\n“Everything’s going to be fine.”<\/font><\/p>\n

Yesterday, I watched the first episode of the new season of Doctor Who<\/a>. It’s an episode that introduces a whole lot of new elements — a new Doctor (Matt Smith), a new companion (Karen Gillan), and a new showrunner (Stephen Moffat), just for starters — but I think it’s also an episode that’s immediately accessible to anyone who’s never seen the show before, which is probably not<\/em> something you could say about the last few episodes under Russell T. Davies’ aegis. I thoroughly enjoyed the episode, and whatever worries I might have had going into it — and I’ll admit I had a couple — were squashed by just how delightful the whole thing turned out to be. From the slightly different look of the show and the madcap humor of the script, to the chemistry between the two leads and the winning performances from both, there was a lot to like, and the preview of things to come had me very excited.<\/font><\/p>\n

So a few observations. Only mild spoilers follow, although there might be more in any of the links:<\/font><\/p>\n