The New Doctor

The other day at work I was talking with a few co-workers and someone asked me what I had done the night before. I replied that I just watched a DVD and ordered Thai. She then asked me what I watched and I said “the first disc in the new Doctor Who series”. The other two co-workers jumped in, one asking how it was because he hadn’t seen them yet, the other who had seen a few episodes asked how I like this particular new Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and as we started to talk about the new female sidekick (Rose, played by Billie Piper), K-9 and the Daleks the female co-worker said very quietly “I’m sorry, I don’t know what Doctor Who is”.

I honestly didn’t know what to say, sure I know lots of people who couldn’t care less about Doctor Who, certainly don’t watch it and maybe even dislike it, but not having any idea what it is was weird, or at least it was to me.

Sure, it hasn't been around as new shows in several years, but before that it had been on for years and years, so many Doctors…but then we found that the co-worker never watched PBS and didn’t care for or hadn’t see much British TV. So that sort of explains it for me, since the only way to see Doctor Who growing up in the 70's and 80's was PBS.

Anyway, I just finished the rest of the series and if you liked the old Doctor Who, or just like sci-fi with a bit of humor I would highly recommend it.

I really liked it a lot and can't wait for the second series to be available on Netflix.