10 years of new Doctor Who

Ten years ago last week a new episode of Doctor Who was shown in UK. There's an anniversary post at the who_daily with all the links s there is no point of reposting all of that. And I written my thought about the series before too so there isn't anything more to say really. Doctor Who is more popular than ever and there is no sign of stopping even though most TV series never last that long. Of course we only just had 50th anniversary so it can hardly be called any series. And of course it was gone for 15 years before that (not counting the TV movie) so even if it stopped now it wouldn't necessarily meant it's gone forever.

When I started watching it ten years ago I didn't expect it to be so fun or that I will end up caring so much. I thought about Doctor Who as a kid show so it took me some time to get to it. I think it was almost finishing the first series when I started but it didn't take long for it to become one of my favourite sf series. By the time Captain Jack shown I was completely sold. I was so sad about Ecclestone leaving after just one season and couldn't imagine the show without him even though I knew how Doctor Who works. That's how it's still is for me - hard to say goodbye every time - but in a way that was the hardest because that was the Doctor who made me start thinking about Doctor Who as a proper science-fiction series. So in some ways he's always be my Doctor even when I love some of the other incarnations more.

So here's current Doctor's (remember Peter Capaldi's an old fan) thoughts on Rose