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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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It must be over a year since I was first made aware of it, and I was just astonished at the fabulousness. And the girls, of course, *loved* it. :D
And as much as I still love RTD (trying to lure him into speaking to our writer's group since he's now local)
Good luck. If you succeed, we expect thorough reports!
I am looking forward to Moffat tiem because I love his work as well.
Same here!
What makes me sad is the bashing, that some folks seem to feel they can't enjoy what's coming up without slamming the old.
::nods:: And after a year of 'Oh noes, DT is THE Doctor, Matt is going to be terrible etc etc' it seems ridiculous that people can't see that it's the same pattern repeating...
Anyway, Squee! indeed!