The most recent audio with Davison has him going back and meeting the crew after Tomb. It wasn't bad actually.
I listened to The Rabbi from Another Planet's interview with Nick Briggs from a while back, and he hit him fairly hard with a question about inserting preachiness into their serials. I don't know if he was just saying what he wanted to hear, but Briggs seemed to agree that he wants storytelling to come first. I don't know if Nick picked up a bad case of Brexit Derangement Syndrome or if he's just hired a bunch of woke hacks, but he really needs to get that under control.
The yellowface is unnecessary, but there's a component of a good character there. H'sen Chang was a humble peasant, elevated by Greel. He plays up stereotypes in front of white people to get what he wants. The pidgin English drops away when he's offstage.
While I like Smith's run, it was clear as day that the writers were wanting Amy/Eleven to become a couple and wrote themselves into a corner with Rory's presence and the notion that they couldn't just drop him like they did Mickey, who was Rose's boyfriend that everyone crapped on and Rose unofficially dumped for Nine but continued to simp for her until RTD wrote him off/paired him off with Martha as a consolation prize.
We've talked about Talons on here before before.. I've actually fully reviewed it in this thread already, and I've talked about the Jago and Litefoot BF series' as well. Look into them if you're curious.
Clara should burn and Moffat needs to go step on a LEGO.
It really only started deteriorating with John Nathan-Turner, and even then only became nearly unwatchable with Colin Baker, not really because of Baker himself but because of a series of increasingly dumb decisions, like that idiotic outfit he wore.
He was a 'sales' guy in a visionary job.
And a hopeless alcoholic. And a sex pest.
Matthew Waterhouse wanted it. #JNTDidNothingWrong
It deteriorated once Hinchcliffe was fired because of Mary Whitehouse's autism and Graham Williams let Tom Baker mug instead of act for three years and hit rock bottom in Season 17 when Douglas Adams decided it was more important to non-consenually pepper his writers' scripts with dumb gags than make actually good stories. It's no coincidence the show suddenly got better the very next season when JNT and Bidmead took over and actually tried to make good sci-fi instead of letting Tom yelling "arrrrghh my everything" off-screen and throwing tree branches on set. The problems really started when JNT hired Eric Saward and Saward decided to channel his writing talents into making generic military stories on a BBC budget and even then it didn't get bad until S21 with trash like The Twin Dilemma and Warriors of the Deep. Saward is the real villain of 80s who. He was an edgy faggot who desperately wanted to gargle Robert Holmes' balls and did that infamous interview with Starburst where he blamed everything on JNT even though he hated Colin Baker, wanted to kill The Doctor off so he could focus on generic mercenary characters and wrote Attack of the Cybermen under his girlfriend's name because of a slapfight with Ian Levine. Again, it's no coincidence the show got better once he fucked off and Andrew Cartmel stepped in and actually commissioned good scripts since he knew what he was doing.
The classic show was never consistently better than the last two years of McCoy. There may have been more high points or moments of genius in earlier seasons, but nearly every story from Paradise Towers til the end was at least pretty good if not straight-up fucking great, and not even the peak or Troughton or Baker maintained that consistent a level of writing for two whole seasons. Frankly, there are Tom Baker episodes worse than anything McCoy was ever in, excepting Time and the Rani, which was a hasty mopup operation that really doesn't count against him.
Yes, it was still good at the end of Tom Baker's run, but deteriorated more or less along with JNT's mental and physical health. Colin Baker is when I checked out because I just looked at that clown suit and decided this shit is it.
Nailed it. Saward was cancer. JNT paired with a decent script editor produced decent to good content.
It feels like a complete rejection of the ethos of Doctor Who.
The takeaway from Davison’s last year that the Doctor is less than useless and the most heroic thing that he can do is just die.
Cartmel and McCoy were a good combo. My favorite music comes from the McCoy era.
What level of nerd is "has worked out to the Battlefield score"? Finally got to read the novelization of that. It was cool to experience the writer's vision that the BBC budget didn't allow.
I like political messages when they aren't so obvious. Slapping a "Happiness Patrol" sticker on the blues man is the perfect level of absurdity.
Keff McCulloch 4 life
I can't see RTD bringing Tennant back as any other Doctor, it'd completely undermine the whole point of the casting process for regeneration.
I beg to differ. When you need a hit you harvest those member berries. And Doctor Who needs a hit. The show is deader than I've ever seen it. Only ones actively talking about are the trannies on Gallifrey Base. I'm not even sure if Tennant and a CGI de-aged Tom Baker would be enough.