Doctor Who - The show I swore to never watch...

That's right, I once swore I would never watch Doctor Who.  I was far too cool for shows about aliens and space because I was busy hanging tough with New Kids on the Block.  I'm pretty sure I didn't even see E.T. until many years later and I know I didn't see Star Wars until I was an adult.  So when my boyfriend, now husband, was excited about the return of Doctor Who in 2005, I clearly was not.  He had grown up watching Tom Baker as the Doctor and loved him and the show very much.  Tom Baker is his Doctor.  The Husband was convinced that I would love this show too (he clearly saw my inner nerd), but as the title of this post states, I swore to never watch it and I am a person who sticks to her guns.  I refused to watch it, that was until one day he was watching the "Doomsday" episode and I happened to be sitting in the room reading or something.  The next thing I know I had stopped whatever it was I was doing and became fixated on the TV.  How could I not! Some woman had just been sucked into a parallel universe and a wall seemed to separate her and the man she clearly loved!
Then suddenly this man appeared on a beach as a hologram, burning up a sun just to say goodbye to her!  I had no idea who these people were, but I found myself heartbroken!  That was the moment that David Tennant became my Doctor.  The husband told me that I really should give the show a chance because he really thought that I would like it (Boy did I ever!). So I put the very first episode of the 2005 run, "Rose", on my phone and watched it during my commute to work.  As a side note I later yelled at him for not telling me about the mannequins that come to life as this is a childhood fear that still haunts me to this day.  He knew I wouldn't watch if he had.  Again he was right!  So I started watching Doctor Who around 2006 and was hooked.  I watched the first season with Christopher Eccleston and really enjoyed him as the Doctor, but I knew his time would be short so I tried to not get attached.  Finally the moment came when Nine regenerated into Ten.  Here it is here...

 I was excited to finally be able to watch the man who got me hooked.  And thus a new "not quite so older" British man crush was born.  David Tennant was amazing as the Doctor and I quickly became a fan.  However, I wasn't just a fan of him, I loved the Doctor and Rose together.  So it made watching the second season bitter sweet because I knew what was going to happen to her.  This Doctor / companion duo would go on to be my favourite, so much in fact that when the husband and I finally got married in 2012, Doctor Who was apart of the wedding.  Here are some pics...

That's right I wore converse with my wedding dress and I was fortunate enough to have a student who painted them for me.  And that would be Rose and Ten standing on top of a tower of donuts.  At this point I had to accept the fact that I was a Whovian and I may have just found a show that I loved more than Buffy.


So once I saw the second season, I had finally caught up and was able to watch the episodes with my husband.  It was a tough transition when Rose was replaced with Martha, but it was a transition I came to realize you need to deal with when you are a fan of this show.  And boy am I a fan!
 
This is how I went from hating Doctor Who to loving it.  Next I'll tell you about how I took that love to a whole new level and dealt with regenerating Doctors.  I do promise this is leading to Capaldi, it's just time is a bit wibbly wobbly :)