DWF is buzzing with the news that Russell T. Davies will no longer be the showrunner of Doctor Who after the 2009 specials; he'll be replaced by the great and mighty Steve Moffatt. I'm pretty pleased by the news: RTD has done a fantastic job and is cruelly savaged on the forums for no reason other than the fact that this isn't 1975 and he's not writing the series in the same way it was done back then. His detractors condemn him for being 'populist' while blithely ignoring the fact that, if this were a bad thing, Doctor Who wouldn't be figuring so consistently well in the weekly TV rating top 10.
So, thanks Russell and well done. I'll be sad to see you go.
On the other hand, woo-hoo! Steve Moffatt is a talented writer who has written one of my favourite TV episodes of all time in the DW S3 episode 'Blink'. Some fans are now predicting a show with more gravitas, darker themes, better scares... apparently they've forgotten that the strength of Doctor Who is that it shows such great variety and that many viewers would stop watching if it turned into a darker BSG-style show. The crucial thing is that Moffatt believes that the show needs a) more scary monsters and b) more scary things in it. All this is Very Good: the whole point of DW is that it should be watched from behind the sofa.
In other news...er. I did have some, can't remember it. Oh yes! More Ofsted tomfoolery. I was going to rant about it but now I'm in a good Doctor Who-styled mood, so I'll save my rant.
Needless to say, I am extremely glad that I am leaving my current job and extremely glad that I will be doing my utmost to avoid having a full-time teaching position in the future.
1 comment:
Hi Cherry,
I have missed a lot of the recent Dr. Who and now I'm feeling guilty. It was always one of my favorite shows. I caught almost all of the earlier series and especially liked Tom Baker.
By the way, what do you like to write about?
Lynet
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