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Well, I certainly never thought...
Apr. 9th, 2024 03:10 pmApparently, my manager is now a Doctor Who fan. (His wife, also.)
He's no stranger to fandom: his favorite TV show is Firefly, to the point where they named their daughter Inara. ("They named her after the prostitute?" I hear you cry. Well, it turns out that their best friends' daughter came out first and they named her Kaylee, so they had to go with their second choice. Personally, I would have chosen Zoe over Inara.) He's also gone to cons in Star Trek cosplay. But he'd never really watched DW.
Since my husband (who works at the same company and is a manager as well, so they're in meetings together all the time) and I talk about DW all the time and take off for Gallifrey One regularly in February, he decided to give it a try. I think they started watching late last year (I remember trying to not talk about the specials so as not to pollute his first-time viewing of Series 1), and now they are at the end of series 6. And today, in our weekly 1:1, he said that he thinks DW is now his favorite TV show, beating out Firefly.
He's not quite sure, since it's so hard to compare to Firefly, a show that had a single season that was perfect in every way (and I'm not arguing that at all; I pretty much agree). But, he says, DW is simply so fun. He loves the characters and the stories, and it's just enjoyable to watch. Sure, DW isn't perfect the way Firefly is, but it's has held up well over six series so far, with few, if any, terrible episodes. (His opinion. I wasn't about to point out Series 2's Trifecta of Suck, though I was tempted to talk about "Kill the Moon" and "In the Forest of the Night", but I didn't since he isn't there yet.)
He's enjoying Matt Smith a lot, but misses Tennant. He thought Series 5 was a lot of fun, and is looking forward to seeing how River's arc in Series 6 turns out. He's also dipping into the classic show and has watched "An Unearthly Child", "The Daleks", and I think at least one Second Doctor adventure. And he is already planning to go to Gallifrey One with us next year. (Which I have to admit, sounds okay but I'm not entirely excited about. I am, at my very core, an introvert - there's a reason I don't actually have friends. I enjoy Gallifrey One because I'm there only with my husband and don't need to actually socialize with anyone else. So, it'll be interesting how this plays out.)
So this is a weird thing - a friend actually becoming a fan of something I'm excited about. I mean, I've had friends watch DW and enjoy it, but not this excitedly. It's also weird that I didn't actually encourage him to watch it - I never suggested it to him; he just did it on his own. I'm interested in seeing his opinions on Series 8-10 (I've been keeping my opinions on all of the series to myself, so that he can form his own opinions, but been keeping especially mum on those, so as not to bias him; I expect he'll like them, because he enjoys Moffat's style), and also how a person who's watching the series for the first time as a whole reacts to the more recent things (the Timeless Child, "The Power of the Doctor", and the 60th). Oo, as I think about it, he hasn't seen the 50th either. He's going to love it.
So, it's been interesting. Also, it means that a good ten minutes of our weekly half-hour 1:1 is talking about DW, which is a lot more interesting than talking about "how's your week going", "do you have any concerns", "what can we do improve your environment", etc. :P
He's no stranger to fandom: his favorite TV show is Firefly, to the point where they named their daughter Inara. ("They named her after the prostitute?" I hear you cry. Well, it turns out that their best friends' daughter came out first and they named her Kaylee, so they had to go with their second choice. Personally, I would have chosen Zoe over Inara.) He's also gone to cons in Star Trek cosplay. But he'd never really watched DW.
Since my husband (who works at the same company and is a manager as well, so they're in meetings together all the time) and I talk about DW all the time and take off for Gallifrey One regularly in February, he decided to give it a try. I think they started watching late last year (I remember trying to not talk about the specials so as not to pollute his first-time viewing of Series 1), and now they are at the end of series 6. And today, in our weekly 1:1, he said that he thinks DW is now his favorite TV show, beating out Firefly.
He's not quite sure, since it's so hard to compare to Firefly, a show that had a single season that was perfect in every way (and I'm not arguing that at all; I pretty much agree). But, he says, DW is simply so fun. He loves the characters and the stories, and it's just enjoyable to watch. Sure, DW isn't perfect the way Firefly is, but it's has held up well over six series so far, with few, if any, terrible episodes. (His opinion. I wasn't about to point out Series 2's Trifecta of Suck, though I was tempted to talk about "Kill the Moon" and "In the Forest of the Night", but I didn't since he isn't there yet.)
He's enjoying Matt Smith a lot, but misses Tennant. He thought Series 5 was a lot of fun, and is looking forward to seeing how River's arc in Series 6 turns out. He's also dipping into the classic show and has watched "An Unearthly Child", "The Daleks", and I think at least one Second Doctor adventure. And he is already planning to go to Gallifrey One with us next year. (Which I have to admit, sounds okay but I'm not entirely excited about. I am, at my very core, an introvert - there's a reason I don't actually have friends. I enjoy Gallifrey One because I'm there only with my husband and don't need to actually socialize with anyone else. So, it'll be interesting how this plays out.)
So this is a weird thing - a friend actually becoming a fan of something I'm excited about. I mean, I've had friends watch DW and enjoy it, but not this excitedly. It's also weird that I didn't actually encourage him to watch it - I never suggested it to him; he just did it on his own. I'm interested in seeing his opinions on Series 8-10 (I've been keeping my opinions on all of the series to myself, so that he can form his own opinions, but been keeping especially mum on those, so as not to bias him; I expect he'll like them, because he enjoys Moffat's style), and also how a person who's watching the series for the first time as a whole reacts to the more recent things (the Timeless Child, "The Power of the Doctor", and the 60th). Oo, as I think about it, he hasn't seen the 50th either. He's going to love it.
So, it's been interesting. Also, it means that a good ten minutes of our weekly half-hour 1:1 is talking about DW, which is a lot more interesting than talking about "how's your week going", "do you have any concerns", "what can we do improve your environment", etc. :P
