Whovians

My house is full of Whovians. What is that, you might ask. A Whovian is someone who loves the Doctor Who television series from the BBC. Some of mine have knowledge of all things Who and some mainly have knowledge of the new current Doctors. I heard someone say that the first Doctor you watch is "your" Doctor. That would make mine Tom Baker who played Doctor Who in the seventies. I must admit that I wasn't a die hard fan (don't tell my kids). I watched occasionally when they were on late night PBS when I was babysitting. Campy, cheap special effects, but for me they weren't as predictable as all the half hour sitcoms that were on tv at the time.

My oldest introduced my family to the new Doctor. The BBC brought the show back five years ago. He had been watching at his mom's on the Sci-fi channel. We found it at the library and my children fell in love. This was a smart, exciting show when everything that we had seen on tv was "reality" tv based. There were no sex scenes, no half naked women, no swearing, no gore, just fun. And the plots were interesting. The stories were compelling. No wonder they enjoyed it. It has been the fodder of many of the kido's imaginary games. In fact all of them prefer to use their Doctor Who game names..

Now we get all the Doctor Who stuff we can at the library. My son likes to watch the "making of" parts of the dvds. As a would be movie maker, he enjoys seeing how to make effects on low budget and how they used lighting and sound and camera angles to create mood and atmosphere. We are currently waiting for the latest season to come out on dvd. This season the introduces a new Doctor and the children are skeptical. I guess, like for me, the will judge all other Doctor's against their own Doctor.