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[elisi]

'There’s a turn here, though, in which Doctor Who becomes a show that is about the pleasures of the text. It exists to be taken apart and read closely, so much so that there is almost no point at which the phrase “reading too much into things” applies. It is a show that is about reading extremely and perversely into things. When every single sentence can be as pregnant with meaning as this structure allows, what can “reading too much into things” even possibly mean? Moffat’s work, around this point, becomes strangely and wonderfully obsessed with testing the limits of what an episode of television can do. It is, in its own way, as fascinating and radical as Doctor Who has been since the Hartnell era.'
Philip Sandifer

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[promethia_tenk]

This is the single coolest thing I have ever heard and you are my hero.

ETA: omg, did not realize that that was the Olympics Opening Ceremony guy. I mean, I knew that the Olympics Opening Ceremony guy was going to be writing an episode and that Moff said amazing things about it and have already basically killed myself with squee over the prospect, but omg.

[elisi]

ETA: omg, did not realize that that was the Olympics Opening Ceremony guy. I mean, I knew that the Olympics Opening Ceremony guy was going to be writing an episode and that Moff said amazing things about it and have already basically killed myself with squee over the prospect, but omg.
Thank you for this. I didn't realise either. That ceremony was like... Moffat Who for theatre.

[purplefringe.livejournal.com]

Well, you and Elisi and our other meta-writing-LJ friends are MY heroes! It's all your fault that I think about any of this.

[elisi]

*coughs and points to icon*

[purplefringe.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha BEAUTIFUL.

I think if I ever used any icon other than my Amelie one, I would need one saying 'I blame elisi' (for use with meta) and one saying 'I blame such_heights' (for vids).

[elisi]

I could make some for you?

[purplefringe.livejournal.com]

aw, that's so sweet! :-) If you like! I've literally never used anything other than this one (which, as you can see, is not even in the proper size because when I first got my LJ Back In The Day I didn't have any idea about anything...)

[elisi]

Give me pictures to work from - or at least ideas for pictures, I could have a look myself - and I shall try to cobble something together. :)

My icon making skills are v. basic, but at least more-or-less presentable. *points to current one*