#the pilot

The pilot is the perfect soft reboot. Bill is an instantly loveable new companion, an intelligent and imaginative girl who doesn't go to university but still attends the Doctor's lectures and when she doesn't understand something, she doesn't frown. She smiles. She's even lesbian. Her new personal tutor is an old man who plays guitar in his office, you're introduced to the Doctor through her eyes in the span of several days with old sonic screwdrivers on his desk, a photo of Susan Foreman, a police box that's way too big to have gotten through his door, and his reflection appearing in an ancient photo of Bill's mother that just showed up one day. His big happy smile when she can't understand how the TARDIS doors are impenetrable, when he tells her she's safe here and she always will be. I've been a whovian since adolescence but the pilot makes me feel like I'm seeing it for the very first time.

once again thinking about mulder checking scullys lower back for marks in ep1 and forever never being able to take his hand away from the small of her back for 9 seasons