The Kandyman was brilliant.
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The Kandyman was brilliant.
To be fair, I've only seen a pic of him so I was just referring to his appearance which wasn't likely to have caused many kids to hide behind the sofa.
I can see how that could have worked in it's favor though, kids see a rather comical looking baddie which gets them into a false sense of security then BOOM! he starts acting evil and scares the crap out of them!
A few bits of info on the new series,
Current titles for episodes 4 & 5 are "Time of Angels" & "Flesh & Stone"
The last 2 episodes are very FX heavy
( This doesn't bode well. )
Bill Nighy is going to be in an episode.
Current titles for episodes 4 & 5 are "Time of Angels" & "Flesh & Stone"
The last 2 episodes are very FX heavy
( This doesn't bode well. )
Bill Nighy is going to be in an episode.
Why doesn't it bode well? In the classic series they scrimped on FX money for the lesser episodes to make sure that the really good ones had enough budget to compliment the story... Is this different now for some reason?
It makes it sound like Moffatt is gonna do exactly what RTD did and concentrate on "epic" visuals in the hope that they will distract viewers from the crappy writing.
Because 2 episodes out of 13 are gonna be heavy on effects? Not sure I see your logic... The man is an award winning writer. But maybe it is better for you to keep your opinion low so that when you do enjoy the episodes you are genuinely surprised.
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If BBC had a budget for Who back in the day, you can bet your ass there would be epic visuals in that show too.
Because 2 episodes out of 13 are gonna be heavy on effects? Not sure I see your logic... The man is an award winning writer. But maybe it is better for you to keep your opinion low so that when you do enjoy the episodes you are genuinely surprised.
RTD got an OBE largely off the back of his Doctor Who work but this doesn't make him any better a writer/producer to me so I really don't care what awards Moffatt has won, I think so far he's written 1 good story ( his first ) and the rest were garbage.
My expectations for the show under his supervision are nothing more than a continuation of the RTD way of doing things perhaps without the pushing of certain social agendas and the only reason I'll be watching is because there's still enough curiosity left in me to see what the new Doctor is like.
Yes, how dare children learn to respect different types of people!
I suspect he's referring to the RTD finales, which were big on effects and light on sensible plots. I don't imagine SM is going to follow the "sound and fury, signifying nothing" season climax if only because he's much more interested in plot than anything else. We'll probably see the requisite eye candy but this time with a compelling story beneath it all.
Yeah that was my biggest bone to pick with the RTD finales. They were always the end of the world. It was always the Doctor vs. the entire Dalek empire. How do you top that. He seemed to paint himself into a corner every year.
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I wouldn't say sensible plots have ever been a strong point of Doctor Who.
In my experience the more you try and force opinions on people the more likely they are to rebel against them.
As for my other quote, I was mainly referring to the finales but "all sound & fury that ultimately signifies nothing" is a pretty apt description of RTD's entire era.
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Brendan you know I love you guy but you need reread that.
There is a certain irony to what I posted for sure but I'm just a guy on the Internet letting off a bit of steam so I shouldn't be taken as seriously as some people seem to.
Unlike RTD I'm not a TV producer and if I were any social or political issues I had would be kept seperate from the show I was running.
Kabukiman
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Some of the greatest stories ever told, especially in science fiction, are social commentary. I see no reason to discourage it in Doctor Who.
There is plenty of that in classic who. Just about every 3rd Doctor story had social commentary in it.
It's all in the execution. Many of Robert Holmes best Who stories were full of social commentary but unlike RTD he had a grasp of the word "subtle" and there was nothing shoehorned into the scripts just for the sake of getting a reference in.
I can see you've never watched The Sunmakers.
The original series was generally well plotted.
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