Well Hello, Stranger!

My apologies. It's been way too long since I rambled here. I guess I have spent way too much of my energy for my ramblings on Gallifrey Base, rather than here! I mean good grief, David was still the Doctor when I was last blogging. Shame on me.

Don't take this as an indictment against Matt. I liked him as an actor well before he was the Doctor, and I still like him and his Doctor now. Series 5 wasn't my favorite of the New Who series, but it wasn't my least favorite either. It just really felt like Moffat and Co. were finding their feet, and some of the old RTD visceralness (Viscerality? I don't know. What a fine writer I am, eh?) was missing. It was all very...clever. That is, with the exception of Vincent and the Doctor, which did a wonderful job of dragging the viewer through the gauntlet of emotions.

Series 6, however, does look like Moffat's settled in and is prepared to provide us not just the clever plot twists and snappy one-liners, but also the emotional pull that I know he can achieve. This is the man who wrote Girl in the Fireplace after all. From what I've seen, there's even going to be a kiss for the Doctor! That ought to make the old schoolers squeal and stomp their feet. Mind you, if that isn't a real goddamned kiss that actually means something, and actually moves their relationship storyline forward, I will be the one to stomp my feet. One series and a two parter's worth of beating around the bush with very little momentum in one way or another is plenty. More than that and it will have gotten old. I swear, if River has the damned lipstick on, and the kiss was just a way to knock the Doctor out, I will throw things out of my pram. Or something.

Anyway, I've been going on long enough. This was only meant to be a blog post to tell you I'm trying to come back to this thing. Do you see now why I call this place StormWolf Ramblings?