I personally wouldn't say it was excellent, but I do like it, it was a fun romp with ELO in which is always a bonus.
Confirmed List Of S5/1 Writers (With Mild Spoilers)
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I personally wouldn't say it was excellent, but I do like it, it was a fun romp with ELO in which is always a bonus.
I liked them.
I got a real kick out of "Love And Monsters." You guys take this show that seriously?
That list looks pretty good, generally.
That list looks pretty good, generally.
Yeah, "Love and Monsters" was a good romp. I was a bit disappointed that Elton didn't jump in the Tardis at the end.
I think the list of writers is pretty solid. I'm glad to see Toby Whitehouse coming back and I'm particularly interested to see what Richard Curtis going to do.
The only writer I'm not familiar with is Simon Nye.
I think the list of writers is pretty solid. I'm glad to see Toby Whitehouse coming back and I'm particularly interested to see what Richard Curtis going to do.
The only writer I'm not familiar with is Simon Nye.
Chibnall went up in my estimation when S2 of Torchwood showed huge improvement. It's pretty clear none of the writers really got enough time to work on the S1 scripts. 42 is ok, nowt special but not terrible. One of my friends calls it "Gurn with me" which always makes me crack up.
Roberts...well I liked The Shakespeare Code a lot, but really didn't like the Cluedo...I'm sorry the Agatha christie episode. Not nearly as clever as it thought it was, I disliked that the mystery around Christie's dissapearance was, well was so uninteresting, but worse was the fact that Roberts basically redid the "I like that I might use that" type gag that, frankly he over did it with in TSC.
But then I like The Long Game and the Doctor's Daughter so what do I know
And Omega? Wonder if he still looks like Peter Davison...
Roberts...well I liked The Shakespeare Code a lot, but really didn't like the Cluedo...I'm sorry the Agatha christie episode. Not nearly as clever as it thought it was, I disliked that the mystery around Christie's dissapearance was, well was so uninteresting, but worse was the fact that Roberts basically redid the "I like that I might use that" type gag that, frankly he over did it with in TSC.
But then I like The Long Game and the Doctor's Daughter so what do I know
And Omega? Wonder if he still looks like Peter Davison...
Hmmm... the Vespiform in the Cluedo episode was disguised as a man with ginger hair. More evidence for the anti-ginger agenda idiots 
We've has quite a lot of these, actually: New Earth, The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, Gridlock, 42, Planet of the Ood, The Doctor's Daughter, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Midnight, Planet of the Dead, and The Waters of Mars.
Most stories take place on Earth, but it's not as if we'd been deprived of alien planets.
Simon Nye's an established comedy writer on British TV - his most recent show is the remake of Reggie Perrin, and the most successful was Men Bahaving Badly, which was pretty much UK TV's most successful sitcom through most of the 1990s (and was produced by Beryl Vertue, former secretary to Terry Nation, and mother-in-law to Steve Moffat).
I know they are pretty much flushing everything from the RTD era and "starting over" but as much as I complained I still think it would be cool if RTD did a script. It's probably hard after being in charge but a zany RTD script here and there would liven things up.
Yeah, the rule hasn't been "no alien planets" but that there needs to be a connection with human beings and Earth in every story.
Which has worked out really well.