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I haven't truly watched Doctor Who with my whole heart since the end of season three--I eventually caught up on the Donna episodes and enjoyed them, but I couldn't throw myself into them the way I did with S3. And I haven't seen any of the specials. So I was seriously considering just not watched season five or Eleven at all, especially after being really disappointed by the casting(young white male doctor, check; one young female human modern-day companion, check) but of course I caved and watched it, if only so I could read all the reaction posts on my flist. And given the above constraints, I like it! I don't know if I'm going to be properly fannish about it--I hope so, I miss having a fandom--but it felt fun. Although part of me will never be truly satisfied unless there are at least three people in the TARDIS, but I know that will never happen again. I like that Amy's really truly odd and peculiar, did not dig the kiss-o-gram thing, liked Eleven seeming to think of humans as basically competent, liked the scary bits, did not like Amy being unconscious for the climactic day-saving but there's time to make up for that. And the wedding dress just made me roll my eyes enormously. Anyway, as long as it continues not to contradict my personal fanon (which is a wide and complex net involving the ultimate fates of Donna, Martha, the Master, most of Torchwood, several guest characters, and certain characters from middle- and old-school) I will accept it as true Who, until and unless such time as the finale makes me want to burn down a city. We'll see.