What better way to christen a new blog than with a picture of two Amy Ponds?
Well I guess an introduction might also help so I'll start with a quick confession (tellingly more of a confession than owning two life-sized Amys) - I didn't always love Doctor Who, at least not to the extent that I do now.
Tom Baker was already the fourth Doctor when I was born and I have incredibly fond memories of growing up watching Pertwee, Baker and Davison's Doctors. I don't think I was ever obsessed with the show back then but I did have a talking K9 toy which I loved and the show was certainly up there with The Muppet Show and Worzel Gummidge for me.
Doctor Who remained on the air right up until I was 13¾ (bizarrely that is acurrate almost to the day giving me a nice Adrian Mole reference for my fellow 80s kids) and I will freely admit by the time it went off the air in 1989 I was far from distraught as Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy had done little for me and I simply moved on to pastures new when it was finally cancelled.
However my fondness for the show was always there and when Paul McGann became the eighth Doctor in 1996 I was genuinely excited for the return of what had been such a constant prescence during my childhood. But again when that relaunch never went anywhere I simply moved on to numerous other nerdy pursuits that could occupy my time, occassionally revisiting some classic Doctor Who stories on DVD but never really delving into serious fandom.
Then in 2005 Russell T Davies relaunched the show, he had cast the amazing Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and even had Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat on board as writers... my hopes where high and nothing pleases me more than being able to say that, six years later, the show for me has gone from strength to strength, it's produced two incredibly high quality spin-off shows aimed at two completely different demographics and has even given me a new found passion for the classic series as I'm now collecting the classic DVDs.
Oh and not since my childhood crush on Daphne from Scooby-Doo have I loved a fictional character quite so much as I love Amy Pond!
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