Start The Riot

Welcome to The Doctor Who Heretic - a new blog wherein i will be watching and discussing the entirety of Doctor Who, both new and old, Torchwood, the Sarah Jane Adventures, etc. as well as general comments on the "Whoniverse," fandom and relevant news-as-it-happens.

a few words about myself-

• i am an American.

• i have been watching Doctor Who for over 20 years. (since grammar school)
  

• Tom Baker was my first Doctor.

• I have seen every episode of Doctor Who from Spearhead From Space to the present day, with a generous smattering of the first 2 Doctors' episodes as well.
  

• i was a pretty avid reader of both the Virgin and BBC DW book lines, i.e. i've read at least twenty-something of them. i probably won't be reviewing any of those, but i may refer to (what i know of) them, as we go along.
  

• i have what some people refer to politely as "strong opinions".
  

• i spell and capitalize however i feel like it. it's wrong, but usually consistent. unlike my opinions themselves, which are right but usually inconsistent.
  

so that's me out of the way, but i'm not alone. someone else will be providing a relative newcomer perspective on things. i am accompanied in this potentially maddening endeavor by a young companion. which is fitting, don't you think?



her nom de plume is Norma Norman and i am at liberty to disclose a few key statistics about her;

• is presently under the age of 21.

• has seen most of the new serieses of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures, and a dozen or so random episodes of the old series.

• has been known to read romance novels.

• is a confirmed bad-ass, otherwise she wouldn't be participating.

and at some point, i may have others drop in to help me kick it around. anyway, we're like the Time Team, except with much more cigarette smoke and swearing, and overwrought analysis of the soundtrack.

a perhaps slightly-offbeat decison i've made is to Not start at the beginning of the series. Norma and i happened to be watching Mawdryn Undead when this blog was conceived, so we're going to start there. perhaps it is a bit odd to start reviewing the whole of such a massive program in it's entirety from about 20 years in- and in the middle of a season, no less- but i'm ok with all of that. and honestly, i fear that starting with the Hartnell stories might just put me into some form of coma.

so let's catch a breath, shall we? before we travel to 1983 and begin to speak seriously about the anthropomorphic personification of the forces of entropy and chaos in the unvierse, as portrayed by a man with a stuffed bird on his head.