I haven't posted here in a while because I'm trying to start a food blog. I'm also not posting there that often, either--I am not a compulsive blogger.

My latest video craze has been the latest Doctor Who incarnation from BBC. I've worked my way up to the fourth season via Netflix.com, but they don't have the fourth season available online, so I'm a season behind, now. Before reacquainting myself with the Doctor, I was catching up on House. I suppose I'm not very good at keeping up with television, either--mostly because we don't actually have one hooked up to even basic cable. Oh well--it's rather nice not having to wait for the next episode in a week's time; I can race right through whole story arcs, sans commercials, as if I'm watching a movie.

I'm interested in the Tenth Doctor's propensity to hold his companion's hands and hug them (don't worry--they hug back)--and, on several occasions, kiss them. He seems to be quite a touchy-feely Doctor! The hand-holding rather makes a logistical sense, as it serves a way of helping the companions keep up with him as he mostly seem to drag his companions up off the ground and haul them with him as he races about in his three-peice suit and overcoat. Still, after many harrowing adventures, he would frequently embrace Rose or Martha--out of relief or platonic love, perhaps, but it seemed like virtually every episode ended with a tight bear hug. Another common gesture is his offering his hand to his companion, or holding their hands as a show of support. The Tenth Doctor definitely has a more physical relationship with his companions, and a more suggestive romantic/sexual relationship as well, as he kisses Rose (albeit to transfer the Vortex from her body back into the TARDIS), he kisses Martha ("genetic transfer" he called it), and Astrid kisses him (and "old tradition" where she comes from). And his human alterego John Smith, he falls in love with and kisses Joan Redfern several times. These "snogs" are hardly pecks on the cheek.

In earlier incarnations, nubile companions with low-cut tops served to pump up the ratings for an otherwise low-budget, "talky" series. It would seem that in this day and age, so jaded with other scifi shows with exotically scantily clad young females, the possibility of sex has to be blatantly broadcast in order to register, despite the Doctor's insistence that he's not romantically or sexually interested in humans.

All evidence to the contrary, dear Doctor.