I always want to call it "Season 11" instead of "Season 5"

[kalquessa]

I has new Doctor Who! New to me, anyway, though everyone else in the world has already seen it, as well as the Christmas special that followed it, which I have not seen and that makes me sad

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[jaxomsride]

Yes to most of this, except I didn't really warm to Rory.

[feliciakw]

I don't call them by seasons. I call them by Doctor/Companion combos. There was Season Nine/Rose, Season Ten/Rose, Season Ten/Martha, Season Ten/Donna, and now Season Eleven/Amy. Though sometimes it's, "That was the Martha season, right?" That kind of thing. 'Cause with Geo watching all the classic Who, too, I just can't keep up

[kalquessa]

Yeah, we mostly refer to the seasons/series that way, too. What will we do with next season? Because we already have "The season with Eleven and Amy and sometimes Rory." I guess it'll be "The Season with Eleven and Amy and Rory and they're married." After that (and I sincerely hope there's an after that for this Team TARDIS) I have no idea how we'll distinguish seasons.

MARRIED COMPANIONS FOR THE WIN!!

[kerravonsen]

Then you would surely find Classic Who confusing, because you have multi-season Doctor + Companion groupings.
Except that in that case, I'd just find it easier to not worry about Seasons at all, and just refer to Doctor + Companion groupings.

[travels_in_time]

I agree with everything you said here! Rory is adorable, and the scene where he comes back as a centurion is my favorite too. In fact every interaction between Rory and the Doctor make me smile.

I love his spazzy mannerisms, the way half the things he does with his legs and arms almost look like involuntary ticks.They probably are. *g* Stephen Moffat has been quoted as saying that Matt Smith "walks like a drunk baby giraffe", or something along those lines, and apparently he broke four sonic screwdrivers and some of the set pieces with all his flailing. When it came to film the scenes in the finale with the flaming torches, the entire crew was on full alert

[kalquessa]

That? Makes me love Matt Smith EVEN MORE. That is awesome. Hahahahahaaa. Purposeful or not, it really does work so very well for the Doctor, though, doesn't it? He seems so young and helpless that he's even at the mercy of his own limbs and then he totally pwns everyone.

[travels_in_time]

Oh, another story! At a meeting, Matt spilled coffee all over a woman. He apologized profusely, and the woman was very gracious about it. Later, when they were leaving, Matt apologized again to a woman passing by. Moffat said, "That wasn't the same woman," and Matt said, "That was the second cup."

Doesn't it make you love him? I will always have a fierce burning love in my heart for David Tennant, but the Eleventh Doctor is so much FUN.

[kalquessa]

*sporfle* I kind of want to be his friend, now. Maybe I'll wear rugby armor when we hang out.

[kerravonsen]

This was a bubbly happy ramble. Is good.

Eleven isn't my favourite, but I do like him.

Rory! Yes!
And when you think about it, even in the first episode, Rory is actually good at this wierdness stuff: he noticed what was going on with the patients, he took photographs, he didn't pretend that nothing was happening.
And, yes, that moment in Vampires of Venice where he calls the Doctor on making people want to be reckless, oh that was good.
And Faithful Rory is Faithful. AWESOME.

[kalquessa]

I definitely liked how smart and adaptable Rory was from the beginning, but I was worried he would be a really passive person and just get pushed around by everyone and that I'd sort of want to smack him and tell him to grow a spine. But then he stole the Doctor's thunder with "It's a different dimension, isn't it?" and there was fighting of vampires and shouting at the Doctor and being awesome. So that was alright.

[shannonsequitur]