Obligatory Introduction Post

I hate writing these things. Not blog posts. It would be awful silly of me to start a blog if I hated the act of blogging. No, I hate writing these introductory posts. It’s like filling out the “about me” section on MySpace or picking your Xbox Live gamertag. Do you know how long it took me to pick my gamertag? Actually now that I think of it, I am far less committed to this post than my gamertag. This is my blog, I can delete this post really easily if I decide it’s too awful for strangers to read so, I guess I shouldn’t sweat it. I feel, after all that rambling, it might be a good time to state on the record that I'm not a pothead...I am a Potterhead but, that's neither here nor there.

Now that I’ve broken the ice with my awkwardness, let’s get down to brass tacks. The main focus of this blog will be television because I love television and I think the amount of time I like to spend talking about it, drives my friends & family crazy so, from now on I’m going to try to get it all out of my system here. It will become very obvious early on that I am a huge fan of Doctor Who and I think I should say up front that the content of this blog might be about 70% Doctor Who and 30% other TV, Comedy, entertainment, and general nerd culture stuff.

I plan to write reviews, though I’m not sure they will be very useful because most of the things I am going to write about are things that I love and the reviews will probably go like this, “I loved it! This was my favorite part…” It’ll be fun for me but, I think in order to be a credible critic you have to criticize something once in a while and I guess I just like liking things. (Hey! That’s the name of this blog.) I’ll also be covering speculation swirling around fandom, and defending widely disliked episodes (Yes Whovians, I’m talking about Love and Monsters).

As the description and name of my blog indicates, I won’t be outright bashing anything. I might try to dissect flaws or weak points in an episode but, not in an overly negative way and mostly just to address things that other fans are complaining about. And this brings me to why I really started this blog.

I'm on twitter @kirstenjbicica and Pinterest http://pinterest.com/kirstenjbicica/ and I enjoy both mediums but, there are limitations. Those limitations became really bothersome after @TMDWP posted this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUKwPPfgf8c&feature=youtube_gdata_player which addresses the Doctor Who fans who thought the Doctor’s actions at the end of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship were out of character. That had really bothered me for a week. I was worried that these fans might be suffering from amnesia.

After watching the video, which only contained examples from Classic Doctor Who, I wanted to share it but, I felt the need to include some examples from New Who and I just couldn’t do so in 140 characters or 500 for that matter so, I opened Word and started writing like crazy. I wasn’t sure what I would do with it when I finished but, it just felt good to get it out of my system. After rereading it I thought, this isn’t bad, maybe a little too “I think you’ll find…” but, it was fun to write and that is when I decided to start a blog.

I’m really excited about this and I am brimming with ideas. I'm not sure if this will be any good but, I suggest we all just hold tight and pretend it's a plan.