FARK.com: (7227714) Steven Moffat doesn't care if you've directed four Harry Potter movies; still won't let you make a Doctor Who movie out of continuity with the show

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t3knomanser		2012-07-23 10:37:21 AM

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adamgreeney: I agree, but Moffat's plots and lines are jumbled messes that seem to based around the idea that they can just go back and rewrite the everything in the last episode to try and cram in an "ending."

Which I'll still take over the RTD "we run around alot, blurt technobabble, and then hit the big shiny reset button to conclude the plot." I will grant that the Moffat era episodes have been far from perfect, but I'm enjoying them much more than the latter-day RTD stuff.

Crewmannumber6		2012-07-23 12:07:25 PM

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RexTalionis: The Yates Harry Potter movie sucked.

So very much this. He only got them because he was english. Alfonso Cuaron's was stilll the best (Prisoner of Askaban)

KiplingKat872		2012-07-23 11:37:04 AM

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t3knomanser: Which I'll still take over the RTD "we run around alot, blurt technobabble, and then hit the big shiny reset button to conclude the plot." I will grant that the Moffat era episodes have been far from perfect, but I'm enjoying them much more than the latter-day RTD stuff.

Re: RTD. You forgot, "Have the Doctor whinge a lot."

Enjoying Moffatt tons more than RTD, at least he treats the Doctor as an alien and not a character in a soap opera.

t3knomanser		2012-07-23 10:56:15 AM

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adamgreeney: But the RTD stuff had heart, emotional resonance, character development on a significant level, and a much richer continuity

I will grant that the Doctor changed is RTD's hands. That's character development, although I think it was terrible what they did to Tennant's Doctor. As for emotional resonance, having Tennant make sad-faces a few times an episode does not have "emotional resonance".

adamgreeney		2012-07-23 10:52:19 AM

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t3knomanser: adamgreeney: I agree, but Moffat's plots and lines are jumbled messes that seem to based around the idea that they can just go back and rewrite the everything in the last episode to try and cram in an "ending."

Which I'll still take over the RTD "we run around alot, blurt technobabble, and then hit the big shiny reset button to conclude the plot." I will grant that the Moffat era episodes have been far from perfect, but I'm enjoying them much more than the latter-day RTD stuff.

But the RTD stuff had heart, emotional resonance, character development on a significant level, and a much richer continuity. There was a lot there in that world, and Moffat seems lost and ineffective.

t3knomanser		2012-07-23 10:18:45 AM

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adamgreeney: Moffat and continuity? Seriously? The man doesn't even know what that word means.

To be fair, he's writing Doctor Who. Continuity is the Doctor's worst enemy. The long-running success of the show is due the fact that the writers are free to chuck continuity out the window whenever it gets inconvenient.

t3knomanser		2012-07-23 08:35:02 AM

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Due to the BBC's charter, you can't make a film in continuity unless you give it away for free in the UK. Which, given the popularity of the Doctor abroad, is a viable business model.

Still, the last time they tried this we got Grand Moff Doctor and the multi-colored Daleks everybody decided they hate 40-something years later. And holy shiat, the 50th is going to be farking crazy, isn't it.

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