Again, I don't have much of a problem with Rusty's take on things, because it's interesting, but with Moffat bringing the Doctor back to what he was, suddenly things make *sense* in a way they never did before. Ten made me think of Angel and Buffy and all those issues. Eleven is... something different. A Trickster, a daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away, Space Gandalf. It's like getting a new show, which gives me things I never knew I wanted, but that I now can't imagine living without.
Agree with all this, but by returning us to that show Moff is playing a dangerous game. It is, after all, the show that got cancelled. New Who worked because RTD totally retooled it for a modern audience. Arguably, it worked because it wasn't Classic Who.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Moff found a way to rewrite time to such an extent that the whole RTD arc never happened.
My worry is that the "daft old man" concept of the Doctor is weighed down by Britain as a dying colonial power, becoming eccentric and irrelevant. Maybe the POTB thing that there are enough Americans out there who can enjoy that kind of nostalgia, and it's obvious they're putting huge efforts into breaking America. You never used to get publicity visits to NYC and simultaneous broadcast of key episodes in RTD's day. And all that's good, but the fact remained, ratings dropped for the last series of DW in Britain and that's an ominous trend. Moff seems to be gambling everything on the big River Song reveal. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.
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Again, I don't have much of a problem with Rusty's take on things, because it's interesting, but with Moffat bringing the Doctor back to what he was, suddenly things make *sense* in a way they never did before. Ten made me think of Angel and Buffy and all those issues. Eleven is... something different. A Trickster, a daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away, Space Gandalf. It's like getting a new show, which gives me things I never knew I wanted, but that I now can't imagine living without.
Agree with all this, but by returning us to that show Moff is playing a dangerous game. It is, after all, the show that got cancelled. New Who worked because RTD totally retooled it for a modern audience. Arguably, it worked because it wasn't Classic Who.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Moff found a way to rewrite time to such an extent that the whole RTD arc never happened.
My worry is that the "daft old man" concept of the Doctor is weighed down by Britain as a dying colonial power, becoming eccentric and irrelevant. Maybe the POTB thing that there are enough Americans out there who can enjoy that kind of nostalgia, and it's obvious they're putting huge efforts into breaking America. You never used to get publicity visits to NYC and simultaneous broadcast of key episodes in RTD's day. And all that's good, but the fact remained, ratings dropped for the last series of DW in Britain and that's an ominous trend. Moff seems to be gambling everything on the big River Song reveal. It will be interesting to see how that pans out.