Doctor Who: comments on a Telegraph article about Russell T. Davies...

[fajrdrako]

Today's Telegraph has an article about Russell T. Davies, not much in it about Torchwood, but it has lots of interesting things about Doctor Who and Russell T. Davies. Commentary from me:

• Good quote: "'You've got to have corpses,' he says. 'You don't want to keep hiring them. Corpses are expensive. Especially when you hire them on the scale we do.'"
  
  
• What's a Teasmade?



• "'everyone wants to be a Dalek,' says Davies." Say what? I wouldn't want to be a Dalek! A Time Lord, a Time Agent, a Companion, sure. But not a Dalek. They aren't sexy in the least!



• A good TARDIS picture with funny lighting.



• I love the Davies philosophy: do what the other shows are not doing. He doesn't always do it - we can see all sorts of influences, like Joss Whedon's work - but he does it enough to be effective.



• Another Davies quote: "I just sort of kept my head down, immersed myself in TV and comics - Marvel comics, loved them." No wonder I love this man, and his work. We have the same tastes.



• Davies quote: "I thought drama was tragedy. It's a profound mistake to think that drama can't be fun."



• Quote by the writer of the article re Queer as Folk: "It was the Channel 4 drama Queer as Folk that first brought him to popular attention - or unpopular attention: it remains the seventh most complained about show in the history of British television. The gay drama, featuring rimming, underage sex and recreational drugs, also featured complicated, sympathetic characterisation. But it's the rimming that people remember." Sure, maybe because it was highlighted in the first few scenes of the show. I loved it. If it's the seventh most complained about show, what are the six that are more complained about?



• The fourth series of Doctor Who is in the works. Good.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

And why not actually make it Toronto - which has a great gay community? That is of course, a rhetorical question, Toronto seldom gets to play Toronto.</I. That would have been the best idea yet!!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That would have been the best idea yet!!

The one idea that no one ever uses.