here's the issue. that's my type. i keep getting distracted by how cute she is (TO ME) that i'm not getting those criticisms.
gonna save that for personal use.
I'm just goofing on ya.
I'm sure RTD didn't demand total creative control for no reason.
This one bugs me on multiple levels. I felt like the "am I a baddie?" question was played out through 10s career. But I was happy to have a Doctor with more of an edge to him again in nuWho. Eccleston definitely played his Doctor with an edge, but he wasn't with us for long. The stuff he pulled in his first series got me excited for a darker, more pragmatic take on the Doctor. It feels like Moffat chickened out on that when we got Doctor Disco in his next series. Also, forgive me my sins, I actually liked Danny Pink. I felt like that whole anti-soldier thing felt super weird given well... the Doctor's entire history . It was just unneeded conflict. Also found myself agreeing with him on Clara's unhealthy obsession with the Doctor. Companionwank seems to be a real problem in nuWho in general. It's nice to see that called out even though Moffat somehow beat out Rose Tyler for most obnoxiously oversold companion.
I disagree, these are three periods in the same character's life. Season 8 is him at his most vulnerable, 9 is the mid-life crisis and 10 is when he's fully comfortable and in control.
That's the real tragedy of Dalton's Bond: right actor, right material, wrong zeitgeist. I imagine tonal whiplash was part of it: a grim, intense Bond going up against brutal, grounded enemies couldn't have been a sharper contrast with the geriatric silliness of the late Moore era.
I liked Danny as well. Character-wise, he's in the same position as Al in Die Hard: a good man who made a terrible (but reasonable) mistake with lethal consequences, and is understandably gun-shy as a result. Sad thing is, if they'd stick with the darker version of 12, he would have made a much better companion than Clara. Someone who carries that kind of weight would have been a much better check on the Doctor's judge-jury-executioner ego explosions as opposed to fangirl Clara. (People give Kill the Moon a lot of shit, but it's worth noting that the Doctor literally had to run away to force Clara to make a choice without leaning on him.)
For one it seems odd that Moffat, who is almost a proud elitist snob himself, is trying to write Danny as some kind of hero to the working man. Ultimately it's about the Doctor measuring his own dick to impress Clara.
Is that what he was doing? I assumed it was generic shitlib "Iraq war bad" combined with Clara needing a boyfriend because she wasn't special enough or something. Like so much of the Moffatt era, there was a germ of a good idea that got passed over for more whimsical bullshit.
He talked up series 8 like it was going to crack open the Doctor and expose his patrician origins. Extract from DWM #477:
I don't think humbling the Doctor was ever really in the cards. Danny just isn't Moffat's sort of man.
I've been yelling "RICHARD AYOADE" at the top of my lungs for new doctor since fucking Tennant announced he was leaving. You are a man (or woman) of immaculate tastes.
Ah, the Doctor didn't regenerate into a woman, he just got some Dalek bumps.
Isn’t the Private Eye satire and a rumor mill?
Moffat is to normal writing what anti-humor is to regular humor: a Kafkaesque experience of finger-snapping savviness. The characters breeze through it with a daze of self-assuredness. The writing feels smug while simultaneously being brain-dead.
Could this have something to do with modern BBC rules or something? Prior to the Dunblane massacre things were much more lax, but since that there's been a number of instances in the UK where book publishers and broadcasters who targeted a more YA demographic wouldn't allow protagonists to do anything that could be taken as approving of guns in their works at all. I recall Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider being censored, the teen spy was originally slated to have a gun but the publisher was just having none of it so Horowitz had to improvise and give him 'gadgets'. It's weird, cus it's not like they seem to care about other weapons, like telephone-bombs that blow your head off if you don't dial them upside down (as was the case in Alex Rider, I forget which book), it's specifically guns that they always have a problem with.
