Well, I suspect I've seen a lot less recent Dr. Who than you have, so I probably don't have the same kind of issues--and I never examine the logic, or the science, so that's not an issue, either.... I've never expected Dr. Who to make sense. It certainly didn't when I was a kid!
I don't have any particular issues with companions being drawn to the Doctor, because, really, why wouldn't they be? He's super intriguing and can travel in time! In a way, I think that it's good that they brought it right out into the open to deal with it, especially since they've cast such young actors ith such good chemistry. When you have male and female humanoids, it's going to be there. It's kind of disingenuous to ignore it.
I think it always has been something that was there in the dymamic. In the past, they tended to make companions much more the lesser being, simply by virtue of being human. Kind of a step above K-9, but not by much. That took care of any of that sort of thing, mostly, but if you make them smarter, more vital beiings in their own right, you end up with this issue.
I just plain like this Doctor a lot. In some weird way, he seems more like the Doctors of my childhood, but...not. A lot more fun, more alien, but also more relatable in a way those weren't. You really get a sense of how terribly sad and lonely it must be to be the Doctor.
I can't really tell you it improves, because I've enjoyed it immensely to this point. ;) Nothing to really improve from, for me, although I kind of hate the opening music....
I'm also very glad that they've lost the kind of grim tone that it was developing, which to me was the antithesis of Dr. Who.
Heh, one more edit.... One of the reasons I don't mind things like the sonic screw driver suddenly doing new things, is that, to me, Dr. Who has no internal logic, not like Star Trek, for example, which we expect to mimic actual science. It's a sonic screwdriver! And the fly around in a police box that's really big inside! It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense, because none of it does. ;)
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I don't have any particular issues with companions being drawn to the Doctor, because, really, why wouldn't they be? He's super intriguing and can travel in time! In a way, I think that it's good that they brought it right out into the open to deal with it, especially since they've cast such young actors ith such good chemistry. When you have male and female humanoids, it's going to be there. It's kind of disingenuous to ignore it.
I think it always has been something that was there in the dymamic. In the past, they tended to make companions much more the lesser being, simply by virtue of being human. Kind of a step above K-9, but not by much. That took care of any of that sort of thing, mostly, but if you make them smarter, more vital beiings in their own right, you end up with this issue.
I just plain like this Doctor a lot. In some weird way, he seems more like the Doctors of my childhood, but...not. A lot more fun, more alien, but also more relatable in a way those weren't. You really get a sense of how terribly sad and lonely it must be to be the Doctor.
I can't really tell you it improves, because I've enjoyed it immensely to this point. ;) Nothing to really improve from, for me, although I kind of hate the opening music....
I'm also very glad that they've lost the kind of grim tone that it was developing, which to me was the antithesis of Dr. Who.
Heh, one more edit.... One of the reasons I don't mind things like the sonic screw driver suddenly doing new things, is that, to me, Dr. Who has no internal logic, not like Star Trek, for example, which we expect to mimic actual science. It's a sonic screwdriver! And the fly around in a police box that's really big inside! It doesn't matter if it doesn't make sense, because none of it does. ;)