{"id":280045,"date":"2018-10-22T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/22\/ckerouac-am-i-rewatching-the-new-doctor-who-ep\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:31:30","slug":"ckerouac-am-i-rewatching-the-new-doctor-who-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/22\/ckerouac-am-i-rewatching-the-new-doctor-who-ep\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ckerouac.tumblr.com\/post\/178838107305\/am-i-rewatching-the-new-doctor-who-ep-for-the\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ckerouac<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Am I rewatching the new Doctor Who ep for the third time today?\u00a0 PERHAPS.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the things that stands out to me so much about this episode is that it washes away a lot of the things that made me frustrated about the Moffat era.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The plot MAKES SENSE.\u00a0 I feel like I could use this ep to introduce anyone to Doctor Who and it would make sense.\u00a0 It\u2019s not concerned with being THE MOST\u00a0\u201cCLEVER\u201d THING ON TV.\u00a0 It\u2019s not concerned with twists and turns and surprises that aren\u2019t earned just to prove how clever the writers are.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s fun.\u00a0 It\u2019s legitimately fun.<\/li>\n<li>The new companions?\u00a0 There doesn\u2019t seem to be a big mystery about them (*cough*Clara*cough*River*cough*)\u00a0 They seem like normal people who were just in the right\/wrong place at the right\/wrong time.\u00a0 GIVE ME MORE OF ANYONE CAN BE HEROIC INSTEAD OF ONLY THE *SPECIAL* TRAVEL WITH THE DOCTOR.\u00a0 Let me see myself in them cause I\u2019m not special, but I bet I could be if I got to travel with her.<\/li>\n<li>Showing that the Doctor is brilliant and clever and quick instead of just telling and telling and telling me.<\/li>\n<li>All the companions get to use their knowledge to help the Doctor. And it\u2019s not magic knowledge, it\u2019s things like bus drivers and police work and social media.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Doctor never pulls a\u00a0\u2018no I have to go alone\u2019 bullshit \u2013 everyone\u2019s like\u00a0\u2018how do we help?\u2019 and she\u2019s all\u00a0\u2018C\u2019MON FAM WE\u2019RE GOING TO FIX THIS TOGETHER\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I just really like this season already, okay?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ckerouac: Am I rewatching the new Doctor Who ep for the third time today?\u00a0 PERHAPS. But one of the things that stands out to me so much about this episode is that it washes away a lot of the things that made me frustrated about the Moffat era.\u00a0\u00a0 The plot MAKES SENSE.\u00a0 I feel like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/22\/ckerouac-am-i-rewatching-the-new-doctor-who-ep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,4,1490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}