My show ♥

[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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[purplefringe.livejournal.com]

IKR?! He's SUCH a lovely guy as well. I sent him another email a couple of months later, on the day it was officially announced he was writing an episode. He replied to say he couldn't believe he'd been so free with information about his episode (clearly the BBC press machine hadn't got to him back in Feb!) and to say thanks for not revealing anything about it online. I was like...obviously I wasn't going to breach his trust like that!? I think it's so sad when episodes leak and spoilers get out because people abuse other people's trust. Ugh.

Ahem. Anyway - perhaps I'll write that essay after the ep! Hah. I think he'd be happy but a little afraid.

[elisi]

Sounds wonderful! ♥

And I'd love to read your meta!

(One of the best compliments I ever got - can't remember if I ever told you - was when I wrote meta on the Spike: Asylum comics, and someone linked the writer. He replied to say that he thought it was excellent, and wished he could have put it in the paperback collection edition, as an extra. I nearly fainted.)