"What do you around here to stave off the self-harm?"

Let me begin by first mentioning that The Guild, Season 4 is scheduled to begin airing on July 13th, 2010. Do not, I repeat, do NOT miss it. I'm pretty psyched about it, especially with how Season 3 ended.

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The bulk of this entry, however, will not discuss the amazing-ness of The Guild, but about the beginning of the Series finale of Doctor Who that aired this past Saturday.

Anyone who knows me will be well aware of the fact that I enjoy science-fiction. I grew up watching Star Trek, I absolutely adore Battlestar Galactica and most of my favourite movies would certainly fall in the realm of sci-fi. Recently though, Doctor Who has been the only sci-fi show that I've followed with any sort of regularity.

With Michelle's help, Josh and I have recently watched all of the "NuWho" (Christopher Eccelston and David Tennant) and considering I haven't watched any Who since old Tom Baker reruns, I was pretty impressed. I love how the show has developed into long season long story arcs (the main reason why I love BSG, Buffy, Angel, etc). Between Eccelston and Tennant I have to stay I am definitely a Tennant fan; purely because of his expressions and how passionate he was as The Doctor.

In terms of companions, I absolutely loved Rose, and I think she will be forever my favourite companion. Martha was just, well, pointless, and Donna I hated from the start. Donna Noble eventually grew on me, but I could never really get over the bad taste in my mouth from her first episode, "The Runaway Bride."

With the new series, I found myself apprehensive about Matt Smith taking over the role of The Doctor. He, too, has grown on me however and I will still be a die-hard Tennant fan. As Michelle said, Matt Smith is great because he's a very "alien Doctor." He's insanely brilliant, but really has no idea how our world works. This series companion, Amelia Pond, is by far one of my favourite companions and runs a close second behind Rose. I love her attitude and I am generally invested in her storyline. It is likely the child version of Amy that truly endeared the character in my heart.

Overall, I've enjoyed this series of Doctor Who. There have been so weird episodes (wtf Rainbow Daleks?), but all-in-all I would rate the season as pretty awesome. I've certainly found that the season has gotten better as it's gone along. Part one of the finale aired this past week and I thought it was great how the story involved past characters and events through-out the season. The cliff-hanger was a great way to end the episode...but, I must admit I miss the days of the Trek cliff-hangers.

One season ends...and you have to wait three months to find out what the hell happened. There was none of this "oh, at least we'll find out next week." No, it was three months. Or in the case of Battlestar, over a year...and each cliffhanger was just as much "WTF?!" as the last. That being said, I am looking forward to this Saturday.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to enjoy some Fish-Custard.