Hey! Where's this club gone?
My recent project is a success so far: I'm turning my un-nerdy boyfriend into a Whovian. Or at least someone who likes watching the series. Rant below, and eventual question.
I've tried to show him bits and pieces in the past (Eleventh Hour, Blink, Flesh & Stone, Time of Angels, and also Flatline I think) but it didn't stick. So since he's heard me talking about the recent season and watched me cry my eyes out at Last Christmas, I decided to show him Clara's run first. To create something consistent to keep him wanting more :3
So I started with Asylum of the Daleks, and he kind of remembered Amy and River from the crash of the Byzantium episodes, and I hastily explained Rory. And there was Oswin. Then we hopped to The Snowmen, and I explained that Amy and Rory had died, simply. He was intrigued by Clara looking like Oswin and the Doctor's realization and our glimpse of real!Clara at the end. So we kept going through the rest of S7 (and personally, I love the second part of S7, it has great episodes and Clara's mystery is nice actually). We went through the specials, he seemed to like Ten enough in the 50th, and we ran through all of S8 with Danny and Missy and all, which kept him on his toes. He rolled his eyes at Last Christmas and still liked Eleven more than Twelve, it seemed. But I said that if he wanted to watch more, we needed to go back to the beginning. Meaning 2005.
So we watched "Rose" and as I expected, he didn't like Nine as much and also the show was filmed rather poorly those days compared to the cinematic feeling of season 5-8. So against better knowledge, we skipped from after Rose, directly to The Christmas Invasion and Ten's first appearance. Now we've just finished Satan Pit and I think I'll skip Love and Monsters (also skipped Idiot's Lantern and will skip Fear Her for sure) but then comes the question:
Should I go back and show him S1 episodes Father's Day, Empty Child, Doctor Dances (possibly skip Boom Town), Bad Wold and Parting of the Ways? I actually like S1 a lot and the individual episodes. Dalek is a gem, but he's seen enough Daleks already to make that an uninteresting episode at this point.
Option two would be to just keep going with Army of Ghosts and Doomsday, but then we kind of seal Rose off and it would be weird to go back watching S1 after that.
I think I'll go with S1 actually :3 Nine has his own charm.