Peter Capaldi as The Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald
Things change and almost everything has a beginning and an end. But most people tend to like continuity, legacy, and the stability those concepts evoke. In politics and government, elections and policies are sometimes sold on the nostalgic feelings for things past. In entertainment, the same approach is used with reboots, re-imaginings, prequels, sequels, and character transitions. The $64,000 question always is whether or not the audience will accept new faces in place of the old ones. Sometimes it can be a horrible debacle that is the very definition of a "jump the shark" moment. But sometimes it works and works well.
Doctor Who has made those transitions work over the past 50 years. The show is a staple of British pop-culture and watched around the globe. This weekend saw the introduction of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor (although technically he's the Thirteenth or even Fourteenth, depending on how you count them). So how is this new doctor and what might be in store for him?
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