Time Lords and Other Heroes of the World

I've been watching lots of the new series of Dr Who at last recently. I've been itching to get my hands on it for years, and now I just watched the first three seasons back to back. First of all, am I the only one who's noticed that if you consider all the doctors, all eleven incarnations, that the Doctor seems to age backwards like the myth of Merlin? I'm fairly certain this is coincidence, a side effect of the producers choosing a more active Doctor after the first couple and then jazzing the Doctor up for the new look of the show from 2005. Though, coincidence or not, I wonder if they'll capitalize on it at some point...though I have some vague recollection of the Doctor being identified with Merlin already.

Anyway, I have to say, I think the show is brilliant. I've actually cried repeatedly as well as laughing out loud and grinning outlandishly. It's had me grabbing my chair knuckle-white with tension. But yeah I have to come back to the crying. I mean, I claim not to like heart wrenching stories, but they really do draw you in, don't they? How Dr Who manages to do that and still stay so often light-hearted I have no idea. The season finales are particular kickers now. (Oh and I'll warn anyone else whose a compulsive watcher of "to be continued" that the finale of season three is three episodes long, not two! So beware when you start that third-to-last episode.)

To avoid spoilers, I suppose I should resist specifics...but wow. Ok, so I still have to go "la la la!" to a lot of the science. But as a drama with sci fi flavor, it's brilliant.

Which brings me to the fact that I'm missing watching Heroes, also a brilliant show that I've shouted out loud at and laughed and cried at (though I usually stare in mute shock or yell rather than crying with Heroes for whatever reasons). The way the heroes and villains, your favorite and most hated characters flip and flip again is agonizing and breathtaking. As with Dr Who I have to go "la la la!" to the problems and paradoxes inherent in practically any plotlines dependent on time travel, let alone repeated time travel, but once again it's a great drama nevertheless.

And since this post has clearly become a TV review, I'll give an honorable mention to True Blood, the first season of which was highly addictive. Vampires in the deep South, a lot of it rather gritty and sordid, but with a handful of highly compelling characters to bring you through it. Though I warn you, they kill off likable characters almost as badly as Heroes (considering there's only been one Season so far).

Well, that's the end of the Soaked Kittens reviews of contemporary supernatural fiction TV shows with the finishing comment that: they've got a Dr Who spinoff show and I want to find it!! (Actually they've got two, but I'm more interested in Torchwood than the kids show the Sarah Jane Adventures even if I did quite like Sarah Jane Smith and even K9).