She is. Along with Helen Mirren, she's the poster girl for the notin that--gasp!--women actually CAN get better with age!
You're probably right about Baltar, though now I'm wondering about the Centurions. We've never seen much in the way of them actually having some sort of sentience--it's mostly been like a telepathic "Where's the next thing we should kill? Oh, there!" communication, and basic following of orders. And yet, in Razor, and presumably the old series, they could talk. So perhaps that whole thing was partially to show that they're smarter than the average grunt? OR at least that they can think for themselves?
RE: DW, only you can judge that for yourself. Having grown up old-school, I come at the whole thing from a very different angle than you do, and couldn't possibly presume to judge those things in the same way as you. I'm always going to love an ep like "The Lazarus Experiment," because it's so old-school, even if it's cheesy. It's like mac-and-cheese for me. But I also love the Moffat stuff, so veggies are good, too! *And BTW, if you didn't see last year's "Blink," you really should. Moffat, hardly any Doctor at all, and definitely worthy of the award noms. It's right up there with TED/TDD from the first year.)
All I can say is that the lack of a companion who is desperately in love with the Doctor (hallelujah!), and the improvement of the writing in general, have made the show watchable for me this year. YMMV, and we're not to the end yet, where Rusty may pull one of his usual stunts and do something relentlessly idiotic. (He's only written one of the eps so far this year, which is probably why I haven't wanted to tear my hair out, but he has done the last three, and god knows--endings are NOT something he's good at.)
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Date: 2008-06-07 03:04 pm (UTC)She is. Along with Helen Mirren, she's the poster girl for the notin that--gasp!--women actually CAN get better with age!
You're probably right about Baltar, though now I'm wondering about the Centurions. We've never seen much in the way of them actually having some sort of sentience--it's mostly been like a telepathic "Where's the next thing we should kill? Oh, there!" communication, and basic following of orders. And yet, in Razor, and presumably the old series, they could talk. So perhaps that whole thing was partially to show that they're smarter than the average grunt? OR at least that they can think for themselves?
RE: DW, only you can judge that for yourself. Having grown up old-school, I come at the whole thing from a very different angle than you do, and couldn't possibly presume to judge those things in the same way as you. I'm always going to love an ep like "The Lazarus Experiment," because it's so old-school, even if it's cheesy. It's like mac-and-cheese for me. But I also love the Moffat stuff, so veggies are good, too! *And BTW, if you didn't see last year's "Blink," you really should. Moffat, hardly any Doctor at all, and definitely worthy of the award noms. It's right up there with TED/TDD from the first year.)
All I can say is that the lack of a companion who is desperately in love with the Doctor (hallelujah!), and the improvement of the writing in general, have made the show watchable for me this year. YMMV, and we're not to the end yet, where Rusty may pull one of his usual stunts and do something relentlessly idiotic. (He's only written one of the eps so far this year, which is probably why I haven't wanted to tear my hair out, but he has done the last three, and god knows--endings are NOT something he's good at.)