I think he was more of the Ian Levine mold. Not into the books, audios, comics, etc. Just the TV show and that's it.
Seems naff, to me at least, but there exist minimalist fans. Like, again, Big Baby Levine.
Yes, that's what I meant.
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Seems naff, to me at least, but there exist minimalist fans. Like, again, Big Baby Levine.
Ah, that makes much more sense. Clarity is everything.
Sorry for misleading there, not intentional (its pretty late and am bit drunk, lol - also the crazy news et al).
Do the casts for the Big Finish stuff record together? In the announcement Jodi Whittaker and Mandi Gil talk about working together, but I wasn't sure if they meant literally working recording together or just working on the show shows.
It'll definitely be interesting to see what BF does with 13 and Yaz.
So will this leave Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi as the only surviving Doctors who haven't done anything with Big Finish?
It'll definitely be interesting to see what BF does with 13 and Yaz.
So will this leave Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi as the only surviving Doctors who haven't done anything with Big Finish?
Come on, Pete! Show us some love!
They try to record together when they can, but that's not always possible due to scheduling, locations, and other issues. Ever since COVID, recording solo is much easier now and has allowed people like Lalla Ward (Hong Kong) and Mark Strickland (Australia) not worry about scheduling recording sessions whenever they're in the UK.
Yup, pretty much. But that's okay. Big Finish has been doing this for a quarter of a century and the flow is pretty flawless at this point.
Levine's Who isn't that limited. He's commissioned some private stories based on (sometimes imagined) unmade scripts, and even reedited other stuff to make it "more proper." He wanted to do something with The Eight Doctors, because he was convinced that novel had been intended to be filmed, for example.
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It should also be noted, RTD seems to be the only modern showrunner who even thinks about the tie-ins. Both Moffat and Chibnall always seemed to view the tie-ins as more of a distraction than anything else, IMO.
I don't agree. Moffat went out of his way to accommodate BF several times. DWM comics, too - there was a reference to that Dalek Headhunter in Capaldi's first year, and Moffat explicitly acknowledged multiple origins of the Cybermen by refering to The Tenth Planet as well as Spare Parts and the comics. And that's without the biggest BF canonizer of them all, and we all know what we're talking about here.
Chibnall though never seemed entirely comfortable with the idea of extended media. And that's partly why he was ill-fitted for that role of showrunner in the end.
I was thinking of the novels, which seemed to decrease in publication during Moffat's term. Granted sales likely were a factor, but I do remember at least one occasion where the stated reason for there being no novels was because Moffat never got around to signing off on the approvals.
Which itself highlights an inherent issue that people try to use as a bludgeon against both Moffat and Chibnall: It shouldn't be their responsibility. Davies was more than willing to handle those kind of things and that's fine, but there should be someone else in general who oversees all of that.
IIRC, halfway throughout Moffat's era he did hire someone to look after tie-ins who stayed for the first year or so under Chibnall, though Chibnall never brought anyone in to replace them.
Yeah, I get it, prior to Doctor Who Moffat and Chibnall never worked on a show which had an extensive tie-in component to it. I don't think RTD did either, though he was a fan of various DW tie-ins which made the tie-ins present for him and why he sought to have coordination. It was a bit unfortunate though, seeing how well it worked during RTD's first era and then it slid off the radar after that.
Yeah, I get it, prior to Doctor Who Moffat and Chibnall never worked on a show which had an extensive tie-in component to it. I don't think RTD did either, though he was a fan of various DW tie-ins which made the tie-ins present for him and why he sought to have coordination. It was a bit unfortunate though, seeing how well it worked during RTD's first era and then it slid off the radar after that.
He's always working.
Also helps that Davies contributed to tie-ins prior to becoming a showrunner.
My only concern with that not being the current showrunner is that you could potentially wind up in a Richard Arnold situation, with someone acting authoritatively in the showrunner's name without them actually knowing what's going on. Though I suppose you just have to find someone with the right personality/view towards the tie-ins to make it work.
The Richard Arnold situation was unique and only lasted to the extent it did because Roddenberry himself empowered him. It should be noted, once Roddenberry was gone, nobody at Paramount tolerated him at all, as in Arnold's own words, he was fired within twenty-four hours of Roddenberry's death.
So basically, as long as showrunners don't give their sycophants carte blanche to do with the tie-ins as they please, that situation won't be repeated.
So basically, as long as showrunners don't give their sycophants carte blanche to do with the tie-ins as they please, that situation won't be repeated.
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