Sea Devils And Die: GeroniMoffat's Doctor Who In The 2010s

blueski is correct.

Ward the obvious thing you're missing is that Masonic Boom isn't ginger!

Six episodes is pretty hefty! Rusty usually did, what, four?

he did 6 for s4. i guess it means Moffat will write the last 4 or 5, building up to big revelatory arc in similar way.

No Paul Cornell :(

Ward the obvious thing you're missing is that Masonic Boom isn't ginger!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:30 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

should i grow a beard?

Get this shit off our nice Doctor Who thread, thx.

word

As a ginger w/no sense of humour I might normally mind that there comment but chose to hear it as slightly funny dig at everyone (apparently every Who watcher ever except on ILX) who takes violent exception to Donna for being, ooh, a bit ginger and over 25, both pretty shocking for a woman who gets allowed to be on the telly

seriously everyone I talk to abt Doctor Who except on here moans endlessly about her being the worst companion ever, which is just a bit silly if you look at the competition, even the nu-Who competition

(xposts) Hm, I was scanning for Cornell too. It says "returnees include" so I don't know if it's completely ruled out or not.

Don't know whether to be excited or worried about new Weeping Angels, since I loved Blink but thought it was very neat as a one-off.

question is who will be the new him and upstage the head writer?

I'm guessing that would be Paul Cornell, but is he actually writing any?

I thought 42 was an okay, certainly non-terrible episode.

Just checked, Rusty wrote five episodes for each of his series.

don't know if this was addressed on the last thread or not as i walked in just as it was ending but donna is probably my favourite of the companions so far in nu-who not least for being a bit smarter, older, less in thrall to the doctor than rose or martha

didn't expect that at all as i don't rate catherine tate as an actor or a comedian

I second that post.

Conrad: The "Portmeirion" sign should be ignored. It's just a point of sale banner for Portmeirion pottery in the window of the shop at Cardiff Millennium Centre (for that's where that particular scene was filmed). The rest of said episode was filmed in Croatia.

But on topic, fuck a Crayons Chibnall two parter :(

:o

the planet Croatia i hope

The other thing to remember is that Rusty rewrote or got people to revise scripts to fit his view of how the series should be and presumably Moffatt will do the same. So a Chibnall script for Moffatt could end up quite different to a Chibnall script for Davies.

Looking forward to the Gatiss one, given that Rusty apparently trashed his original script for The Unquiet Dead and made him take out a lot of the darker bits.

there's still strong anti-donna sentiment out there? i knew there was circa "Runaway Bride" but i thought people had gotten over it during S4. anyway i loved her and apparently i've self-selected places on the internet to go where everyone else loves her too.

does this also mean that moffat written script w/o rusty looking over his shoulder could be different from the moffat we've grown to expect?

Rusty said he didn't change Moffatt's scripts at all, so maybe not.

half-serious point but presumably now there will be fewer gay references? the occasional background character notwithstanding. i just can't imagine anyone consciously inserting gayness into proceedings with half as much vigour as Rusty.

"inserting", "vigour"

ITS LIKE I'M HIM

If only Frankie Howerd had ever been offered the Doctor Who gig.

Worth bearing in mind Moffatt wrote the series' first gay ref in The Empty Child and also pretty much outed the Master in that mini Davison ep. So you never know… Plus Moffatt loves to troll the stuffier fans so I wouldn't put it past him to try and outdo Rusty for the lulz.

i think Moffat just writes better and more subtle innuendos generally tbh

Chibnall ;_;

I know :(

At least it isn't Helen Raynor. That's the only way it could be worse.

Example of said trolling - the series 5 trailer. He punches someone! He kisses a girl! He fires a gun! SM must have known how those three things would piss off a certain type.

yes, it was all to empthasise how this Doctor was different (apart from the kissing girls thing).

I had to look up the name of the dude who wrote "Fear Her", he'd be worse.

i think Moffat just writes better and more subtle innuendos generally tbh

― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:18 PM (1 minute ago)

Fair point.

From the clip it looks like a girl kisses him and he's all like omg a gurl. xps

I had to look up the name of the dude who wrote "Fear Her", he'd be worse.

― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:21 PM (11 seconds ago)

Matthew Graham, creator and writer of Life On Mars. Lousy episode, not helped by how he totally misjudged the tone of the show (and like Moffatt, Chibnall and Greenhorn had a "no rewrites by RTD" clause in his contract). Also, poor casting and Euros Lyn's "LETS DUTCH TILT EVERY SHOT" style made a 50p episode look even cheaper :(

It was like Brookside as filmed by the putz who did Battlefield Earth :(

i did like the big scribbly ball in Fear Her, but so much potential missed in that ep

The TARDIS gag at the beginning was cute too.

Still want them to bring Ben Aaronovitch back into the fold. Will never happen, though ;(

Bit of a pity the Gaiman rumours didn't come to pass.

I'd love someone to get Alan Moore to write one, but I imagine that'd be nigh-on impossible.

I reckon the Gaiman script will turn up for S6. They always overcommission and Gaimans got form for being late with TV scripts, or so I've heard.

Didn't AM nearly write for McCoy? Something like that anyway.

My guess is that the gun Matt Smith fires is a starter pistol rather than an actual gun.

I just watched Blink again and the Doctor says the Weeping Angels were "quite nice where they came from".

yeah starter pistol is pretty obvious but it still had loads of idjuts protesting

He's not pulling a "I am shooting a starting pistol" face there.

my God, Ben Aaronovitch would be fucking fantastic

big cheers for seeing Gatiss and Roberts, two of the more underrated authors from the Virgin book era

I think he's doing the live action Blake's 7 for Sky at the moment, though.

O_O

okay gotta see that, that's like a completely perfect pairing of sensibilities right there

Look - it's a ginger Matt Smith:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/07/ginger-fringe-doctor-who

wow, ginger Matt Smith looks like an anemic serial killer

too la roux

but if the Master could die his hair i don't see why the Doctor can't