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Moff tiem soon! :)
A couple of links in honour of the Moff. (I'm still very fond of RTD, btw. No bashing plz.) And I just remembered that I was going to use this picture of him when he was ten. So cute!
Long interview with the man in question. No spoilers (that I could see) and it contained this lovely quote:
Fans have welcomed his promotion, so what kind of storyrunner will he be? "Everyone wants to know about my vision but I only have vague answers," he says. "Maybe this isn't new but it is my view: Doctor Who is a fairy tale – not sci-fi, not fantasy but properly a fairy tale. And I don't mean Disney-style where the endings are changed and everyone lives. Doctor Who is how we warn our children that there are people in the world who want to eat them."
ETA. Links to more interviews here.
Now everyone knows about the brilliant episodes he wrote for New Who, but it occurred to me that maybe there are some of you who haven't come across one of his most fantastic pieces of writing, the Doctor Who special he wrote for Comic Relief in 1999 (when the show was a dead as a dodo):
The Curse of Fatal Death
It features Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor (and he makes a *great* Doctor btw) and Jonathan Pryce as the Master, and it is one of the funniest things ever. (Actually you could watch this is even if you're not a fan of the show, and know nothing about it.) Go on - it's 20 minutes well-spent! :)
Long interview with the man in question. No spoilers (that I could see) and it contained this lovely quote:
Fans have welcomed his promotion, so what kind of storyrunner will he be? "Everyone wants to know about my vision but I only have vague answers," he says. "Maybe this isn't new but it is my view: Doctor Who is a fairy tale – not sci-fi, not fantasy but properly a fairy tale. And I don't mean Disney-style where the endings are changed and everyone lives. Doctor Who is how we warn our children that there are people in the world who want to eat them."
ETA. Links to more interviews here.
Now everyone knows about the brilliant episodes he wrote for New Who, but it occurred to me that maybe there are some of you who haven't come across one of his most fantastic pieces of writing, the Doctor Who special he wrote for Comic Relief in 1999 (when the show was a dead as a dodo):
The Curse of Fatal Death
It features Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor (and he makes a *great* Doctor btw) and Jonathan Pryce as the Master, and it is one of the funniest things ever. (Actually you could watch this is even if you're not a fan of the show, and know nothing about it.) Go on - it's 20 minutes well-spent! :)
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She'd be great, wouldn't she? (This reminds me of icons saying 'Miranda Richardson for Eleven. You *know* it makes sense!') I think that's one of the great things about the part, so many people could play it well.
I really didn't have time to watch this this morning but you're totally right, twenty minutes well spent.
My evil plan worked! *g* (I'll have to re-watch it myself later...)
And promising, too. Moffat's episodes tend to be the more serious ones, don't they? If I'd had to guess, I'd've said that was more likely to be RTD holding the pen for that sketch.
Moffat also wrote 'Time Crash' (that little Children in Need sketch with Peter Davidson), and a lot of his other work is quite humourous, all of which bodes well! (One review of the first ep of S5 mentioned endless, brilliant one-liners. Yay!)
Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! :) And I hope your day is good!