My New to Who Tale and other Timey Wimey musings

I blame my old housemate Bre for this change in my life. Actually it’s a whole new life- my life before the Doctor was NOTHING!

We were house mates in college and she kept being all DOCTOR WHO THIS AND DOCTOR WHO THAT BLAH  BLAH BLAH.

Before one winter break she handed me her flash drive which had Ninth Doctor season and said JUST WATCH!

So reluctantly I did.

And reluctantly I kept watching.

And suddenly I was addicted.

When Chris left I was DEPRESSED to say the least, but I had to have MORE!

So I went on youtube and luckily they had New Earth ( I had no idea about Christmas Specials so I watched Christmas Invasion later). I started watching again reluctanly because I was like WHO IS THIS SKINNY KID AND WHAT MAKES HIM THINK HE CAN BE THE DOCTOR!?!?!?

Five minutes in.

JK I LOVE YOU DAVID!

Anyway… it’s Bre’s fault so no matter how much she pisses me off sometimes I can never hate her because she gave me The Doctor.

So thanks Bre.

I think the best example of someone discovering Doctor Who is in Community when Abed watches the first few seconds of Inspector Spacetime and he says 

Doctor Who is more than just a TV show that I love. It is something that I crave- I have withdrawals if I don't have some type of Doctor related stimulus in front of me every 12 hours or so.

Sometimes when my friends ask me what the show is actually about I have nothing to say because if they aren't going to take the time to find out for themselves then I'm not going to bore them with what will turn into a two hour explanation that they will just forget most of. It really is a personal experience because The Doctor means something different to all of us.

Some Whovian's mourn the writing of Davies and some thank the Time Lords that Moffat has taken over.  Personally I love both of these men. 

Thank you Russel T. Davies for bringing me The Doctor and making me fall in love with him. 

And thank you Steven Moffat for keeping him alive in ways that are unexpected and brilliant.

NOW I am not saying either of these men don't have flaws in their writing but I can be grateful to them even with my or your issues with how they run the show.

I love this show so much that it could revert to cardboard Daleks and a soundstage and I would still be loyal to it.  

Watching Doctor Who is not like just watching any other show- it deserves attention and it deserves devotion. It deserves hours of your life gone from fan fiction reading/writing, fan art making and Tumblr scrolling. It deserves your tears and your laughter.

It DEFINITELY deserves more than just a sound bite at the London Olympics- I mean how many flipping times does he have to save you fools to get some recognition? C'MON!

There is no way to really describe how this show has changed my life, it's not like I was depressed before hand- I just had this ubknown HOLE IN MY HEARTS... two hearts... count them.