Hi, everybody.
I am a new Whovian. While I’ve been a science fiction and fantasy fan forever, I resisted this particular world until very recently, when my daughter starting squealing about this show she found on Netflix and how much she enjoyed the Doctor with Donna. (Supertemp!) First I was letting her watch the show while I made dinner, then I was watching it with her, then I was bawling my eyes out through Doomsday and the End of Time, and I realized I’d gotten hooked on Who. In honor of the 50th anniversary, I’ve started recapping some of the new Who episodes at my blog, and I hope some of you might be interested in reading them. The first episode up is “Rose” from season one.
Sample paragraph:
Rose has a sweet, cute, very normal lunch with her sweet, cute, very normal boyfriend and then at closing time realizes she must go down to the dark, spooky basement of Not Harrod’s to give the lottery money to some poor sap named Wilson. Hi, Wilson. Bye, Wilson. We hardly knew ye. Watch out for the guy with the weird screwdriver. People seem to die a lot when he’s around.
At any rate, Rose delves deeper and deeper into the dark, scary basement looking for a man who isn’t there, and suddenly finds herself locked in. This is the exact moment when Rose’s life ceases forever to be normal or even sane. There are no people around, but there sure seem to be a lot of mannequins. Creepy mannequins. Moving mannequins. Mannequins moving towards her. First one, then another, then a whole street gang of half-dressed plastic men begin crowding in on Rose as she screams at somebody named Derek. If she thinks Derek is able to make plastic zombies who want to take over the world, I want to meet this guy and find out what he’s been up to. Just as Rose is about to give up hope – she gets a little bit more resourceful later on – she feels a warm hand in her own, and hears a friendly voice hiss a command: “RUN!”
Rose, meet the most delightfully dangerous person you will ever know.
The rest is at Recapper’s Delight.
