Euros Lyn to direct Doctor Who movie?

[Stevil2001]

I like Graeme all right, but I think he lives and dies with the script to an extent that Lyn doesn't. When Graeme has an excellent script-- "Doomsday" or "Utopia" or The Caves of Androzani for example-- we end up with excellent television. But when he has a middling script-- "42" or The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith or Revelation of the Daleks-- we end up with a middling episode. (Though to be fair, I think he elevates all those stories about their scripts.)

But everything Euros Lyn does, he takes to the next level. "The Idiot's Lantern" is a middling script, but a joy to watch. "The End of the World" is just utterly fantastic, and a lot of it is down to Lyn's direction. Lyn's least successful episode in my eyes is the library two-parter, which is by no means a bad one.

 

[Starkers]

Didn't he do Fear Her?

 

[Sci]

Didn't he do Fear Her?

An episode that was written by the co-creator of the almost universally acclaimed Life On Mars, which just goes to show you that everyone has their "off" days.

 

[Stevil2001]

I like "Fear Her," and I think a large part of that is due to the direction.

 

[ATimson]

I like "Fear Her," and I think a large part of that is due to the direction.

Whereas I'd much rather rewatch "42" than "Fear Her" or "The Idiot's Lantern". The direction isn't their problem, but I don't think Euros managed to raise them much above their scripts, if at all.

But, different tastes and all that.

 

[The]

Well what else could it be about?

It could be about any damn thing. It hasn't been written yet.

What would be able to happen in this movie that would set it apart from any other of RTD's over-the-top OMGSOEPIC!!!1!1one! wankfests, for example?

I don't know, but I'm not a professional script-writer, either. And neither are you. Don't assume you know what's going to be in the damn thing.

Wow, what an attitude. Come on, Sci, I know he spoke ill of your boyfriend and idol, but there's no reason to be a bitch...

 

[TemporalFlux]

The funny thing is that I remember many, many people asking for a Paul McGann mini-series showing what happened in the Time War...but this Tennant thing is now sacrilege.

 

[Timby]

Come on, Sci, I know he spoke ill of your boyfriend and idol, but there's no reason to be a bitch...

And that will be quite enough of that, thank you.

 

[Sci]

Well what else could it be about?

It could be about any damn thing. It hasn't been written yet.

What would be able to happen in this movie that would set it apart from any other of RTD's over-the-top OMGSOEPIC!!!1!1one! wankfests, for example?

I don't know, but I'm not a professional script-writer, either. And neither are you. Don't assume you know what's going to be in the damn thing.

Wow, what an attitude. Come on, Sci, I know he spoke ill of your boyfriend and idol, but there's no reason to be a bitch...

I tend to react that way to anyone trying to claim they know what something that hasn't been written yet will be about. I reacted the same way to people who were claiming in 2006 and 2007 that they knew what the new Star Trek movie would be like simply because they couldn't imagine the writers doing anything else (and they were all wrong), and I react the same way to people claiming they know what's going to be in this new Doctor Who movie.

It could be great, it could be crap, it could be middling. I'm looking forward to it; someone who doesn't enjoy Davies' work might not be looking forward to it. That's all fine. I just get irritated at someone claiming they know what the actual content will be.

 

[The]

Come on, Sci, I know he spoke ill of your boyfriend and idol, but there's no reason to be a bitch...

And that will be quite enough of that, thank you.

You must be joking...

 

[Timby]

No, I'm actually not. When you start calling someone a "bitch," you're crossing the line from argument into something worse. Any further comments on the matter can be dealt with in private messages.

 

[The]

 

[Da'an]

I never said I knew what the movie was going to be about. I said that I couldn't think of anything else it could be about, considering RTD's track record with Doctor Who.

 

[Rackon]

Ah...just my 2 cents worth - PLEASE, no Daleks. No Cyberman.

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE. No.

Personally, I'd be thrilled to have a movie with Tennant's Doctor, no matter what the other team are doing with the current series on the small screen.

As long as there are no Daleks.