Doctor Who: Moffat the Magnificent...
May. 20th, 2008 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoAt long last the announcement: Steven Moffat is taking over from Russell T. Davies. I am, in fact, surprised. There have been rumours enough about Russell T. Davies leaving, for long enough, that I would have been surprised if he didn't. But Moffat taking over? As possibilities go, it seemed too good to be true. I half-expected some no-talent I'd never heard of. Or, worse, some of the half-talents I've seen associated with Doctor Who projects but in whom I have no faith.
But of course I have faith in Steven Moffat. He is one of the gods in my pantheon. One of the best writers in television, if not the best. I don't just love his writing style; and it isn't just that he has such a grasp of cinematic style; I like the way he thinks. His originality. His approach. I'm not sure he has Davies' sense of romance; we shall see.
So now, I'm really, really looking forward to series 5 of Doctor Who. It's going to be an excruciatingly long wait, the equivalent of waiting for Dorothy Dunnett's Checkmate to come out, or - say it ain't so - the apocryphal and much-awaited A Dance of Dragons by George R.R. Martin.
Here's the "Tv Scoop" story.
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:18 pm (UTC)Mind, I'm still peeved at the BBC pursuing the woman who knits the Whovian toys over copyright issues…
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:26 pm (UTC)*nervous nelly*
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:27 pm (UTC)I just caught up reading that series (ASOIAF), reading A Feast for Crows for the third time so it's third time all. Now for the next one, please!
I remember being very confused by the last lines of The Ringed Castle. What do you mean they didn't wait any longer???
Did I recommend Sherwood Smith's Inda (in paperback) and is sequel The Fox? Loved them both. The third book is coming out this summer, i think. And there will be another after that I believe, or two.
There's a game I like to play sometimes, about newly discovered 'lost books' where you add this: " as good as (such and such favorite by the same author)"
So, a lost book by Dickens, as good as Bleak House. A lost book of Renault as good as The last of the Wine. (differenet faves for different folks, of course)
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-05-20 06:45 pm (UTC)But I'm absolutely over the moon. I was like you, afraid we'd get a no-name who'd struggle to fill RTD's shoes. Instead we got someone who I think can (to stretch a really bad metaphor) stand in his own shoes and make the show even better. Who doesn't see Doctor Who as a series of field trips to exotic locales, but who writes about space-time and its intricacies! Moffat invented the Time Agency, after all! Not to mention Jack Harkness!
Yup. I have high, high hopes.
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Date: 2008-05-20 07:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-05-20 10:11 pm (UTC)Re: Squeeeeeeee!!!!!
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Date: 2008-05-21 02:54 am (UTC)Anyway, I just wanted to say hi, and thanks for the information!
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Date: 2008-06-01 05:28 pm (UTC)http://www.dailymotion.com/breched
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From:Moffat Interview From Comic-Con
Date: 2008-07-25 01:34 am (UTC)http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=47147
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