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What I'd like next series...
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15-05-2008 6:15pm#1
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I have to admit, I have had enough of RTD. I always had a patience for the man's eccentricities when it came to the tone & direction of New Who, but now it's beginning to jar & feel predictable. I always enjoyed his own material, up to a point, but I think even he is tiring of his own work & is just churning out the "wacky" episodes on auto-pilot.
So for the 5th series and onwards, I want to see a new direction & attitude in the show. Whether that requires Steven Moffat to take over, or somebody else, there should be a new man at the helm.
Totally agreed, although I will always be thankful to RTD for bringing back one of my favourite tv shows from my youth. I await Doctor Who vs the Transformers (something which very nearly happened in the uk marvel comics, believe it or not) with baited breath.
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RTD to go. He can take away some of his writing staff too like the risible Greenhorn. Hopefully it'll remove the childish element to the show (you can be a family drama without needing to have "gags" like farting).
Far less Earth bound stories - Grrr! It's not Season 7! Move away from Earth in its timelines. There's a whole universe out there that the show never brings us to. Hell reuse the quarries if you need to but give us more alien life and places. It's one of the most glaring issues with the show currently.
More maturity - the show needs to stop focusing on the idea that "it's for the kids!". It's a family drama and kids can be treated with more respect. Now we do get that with writers like Cornell and Moffat but we should get more of it throughout the show whilst still retaining its humanity.
Less over-bearing music. Keep the orchestral swells down a bit, let the action on screen dictate the emotion more than the brash musical accompanient.
More from Moffat and Paul Cornell. Bring in Lance Parkin too and a few other writers from the BBC Books series who've shown how well they can write.
I'd also like to see more intelligent resolutions to problems too. This will mean destroying the sonic screwdriver as it's currently just a crap deus ex machina for every bloody thing. Also gone is the psychic paper. The Doctor used to have to use his wits and charm and ingeunity to get past people - now all he does is flash the paper or run through a door pointing the bloody sonic screw driver. It's lazy lazy writing.
Far less running - the Doctor uses his brains to solve problems. Tone down the shouting too, especially about how humans are amazing. It's embarassing - we know the Doctor likes Earth but there's no need for him to waffle on about it all the time. A bit more about him going on about stupid apes would be nice.
Stop having the TARDIS console explode and rock from side to side. It's old. And no more of the Doctor going "What? What?!" It's hardly a catchphrase of "Oh my giddy aunt" quality
No mention of Rose ever again. No harkening back to any other of RTD's creations other than his current companion. We need freshness - not to be mired down in RTD's leftovers.
A male companion - yes there has definitely been more female companion throughout the show but there's no reason we can't have a male companion too. No more "I love you" Doctor type companions either - Donna's the right step in this regard.
Show the TARDIS interior - we've never seen beyond the console room. We saw a good bit more in its first run so why hold back now with your bigger budget? Show Donna's room perhaps or one of the many many other areas. We've never been shown just how big the TARDIS is.
Better science - I know it's a family drama but the lack of science in the show is depressing mostly.
Better SFX - I know they're expensive and all but the show often looks terribly shoddy when put up against the outputs from other US shows like BSG.
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More from Moffat and Paul Cornell. Bring in Lance Parkin too and a few other writers from the BBC Books series who've shown how well they can write.
This puzzles me greatly; Parkin has been a strong writer for the books range, yet has not been involved at all with the new TV show. I can only imagine that either he simply doesn't want to write for it, or else doesn't have enough TV experience that he can be put forward as a writer for the show. Shame.A male companion - yes there has definitely been more female companion throughout the show but there's no reason we can't have a male companion too. No more "I love you" Doctor type companions either - Donna's the right step in this regard.
I disagree about the need for a 3rd companion - anytime there's more than one companion, in New or Old Who, 1 inevitably gets sidelined & does feck all (or to put it another way, Turlough climbing through vent shafts). Look at Martha in last week's debacle. She did nothing useful.Better science - I know it's a family drama but the lack of science in the show is depressing mostly.
I think this ties in with the point about the Deus Ex Machina endings; with the knowledge that the episode is going to be 45 minutes, you tend to get pretend science that can pull off the "with one bound they were free" style resolution. Sloppy for sure.
Though having said that, I DON'T DON'T DON'T want so-called "hard" science like the style we had in season 18/19; basically along the lines of Chris Bidmead.Better SFX - I know they're expensive and all but the show often looks terribly shoddy when put up against the outputs from other US shows like BSG.
I disagree; I think this season the SFX have been rather good. I think part of the problem is that on many occassions, the backdrop SFX doesn't match the close up, so the joins are all the more obvious (like when the Doc faced off against the Devil, it was obvious with the "film" SFX jarring against the TV camera shots of Tennant). The answer is to use film cameras for Who... So a small list of wants
You forgot to mention "needs more Jenny"
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He's written for TV though - admittedly it was for "Emmerdale" but he has experience writing scenes and working with a restrictive timeline. It makes this all the more puzzling - maybe he's jus not interested anymore?This puzzles me greatly; Parkin has been a strong writer for the books range, yet has not been involved at all with the new TV show. I can only imagine that either he simply doesn't want to write for it, or else doesn't have enough TV experience that he can be put forward as a writer for the show. Shame.
That's a fair point mostly but I always thought Ian and Barbara worked well together as a pairing - maybe something like that? Not Mickey/Rickey of course but someone intelligent who I don't want to throw into the temporal void.I disagree about the need for a 3rd companion - anytime there's more than one companion, in New or Old Who, 1 inevitably gets sidelined & does feck all (or to put it another way, Turlough climbing through vent shafts). Look at Martha in last week's debacle. She did nothing useful.
Is that because bad hard science is worse than not trying? The level of science in something even like Stargate would work in the show - just a bit of effort.Though having said that, I DON'T DON'T DON'T want so-called "hard" science like the style we had in season 18/19; basically along the lines of Chris Bidmead.
Not to my tasteYou forgot to mention "needs more Jenny"
Oh and bring back a Brigadier if we see UNIT again! Winifred Bambera even.0 -
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He's written for TV though - admittedly it was for "Emmerdale" but he has experience writing scenes and working with a restrictive timeline. It makes this all the more puzzling - maybe he's jus not interested anymore?
Ah ok, very mysterious so; maybe he's in the same camp as Lawrence Miles. The "all New Who is shít" camp that is.
Having said that, there's a lot of writers out there who I suspect would chew off several appendages to make a script for the show; I vaguely recall Neil Gaiman expressing an interest. Not to mention the issue with Stephen Fry's aborted script for series 3That's a fair point mostly but I always thought Ian and Barbara worked well together as a pairing - maybe something like that? Not Mickey/Rickey of course but someone intelligent who I don't want to throw into the temporal void.
True, when the 2 companion combo worked, it worked really well. Ian / Barbara were great, though I always thought Sarah Jane / Harry Sullivan were better in that you had great spark & banter between the two of them. Sarah Jane's ballsy nature vs. Harry's Old-school pillock character. I think if they must bring along a male companion however, it should be Bernard Cribbens' character, he would be champion (plus there'd be less running)
Is that because bad hard science is worse than not trying? The level of science in something even like Stargate would work in the show - just a bit of effort.
Well the Bidmead era did stray into the territory of some serious technobabble ("logopolis" was unbelievable in that regard), which I do think is worse because it's pretentious & knowing, not to mention deeply alienating. I think what perhaps New Who is trying to convey is the "magic" of science
Well if we simply must stay on Earth so much, then I see no reason why the show can't go back to the UNIT years. We have the introduction, the capacity for decent characters & the chance to introduce a more tangible story arc.Not to my taste
Oh and bring back a Brigadier if we see UNIT again! Winifred Bambera even.0 -
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