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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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[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.