Moffat Out, Chris Chibnall in

[Starkers]

The general audience probably also expects to tune in to an adventure involving the Doctor and his companion each week, yet in the modern era it's become an annual tradition where the Doctor and the companion have a reduced role to just one or two scenes and the episode is mostly carried by guest characters. In fact, one such episode (Blink) has become so popular it often tops lists of the best episodes of the modern era and usually ranks pretty high (usually in the top 10) on the best episodes overall as well. Just saying.

Of course we'll still have alien monsters to fight or befriend as seems appropriate, and the Daleks will still make us wonder if the BBC really is contractually obligated do a Dalek episode per year. But we can also have variety too.


Although I agree the episode could have worked fine without the alien creature, I'm actually okay with it in this case since the alien's death scene where we learn it's just scared and lonely rather than evil and threatening really was a well-done scene.

I've recently rewatched that episode and it is a nice scene. Also there's a nice symbolism. Van Gogh is shunned because of mental health, the creature has been shunned by its own kind due to physical disability.

 

[Christopher]

I suppose, though I wonder how the sales did with the History Collection pre-print novels last year, a collection which did include two pure historicals. And more specifically how well they did compared to the others. Though, to be honest, I suspect Human Nature was likely the bestseller of the batch.

At the time, I wondered if this was their way of testing the waters to see if there was any interest in historicals among the modern audience.

The audience for the novels is probably a tiny fraction of the audience for the show, and is probably not statistically representative of the show's audience. So their interest in pure historicals might well be greater than the general TV audience's interest in same. I doubt, then, that book sales would be useful to gauge the interest of the TV audience for such a thing.

 

[Ithekro]

A pure historical....save for that crazy person waving around a sonic screwdriver.

 

[Christopher]

A pure historical....save for that crazy person waving around a sonic screwdriver.

By the way, I've been doing a Classic Who rewatch, and it's interesting to note how many times the Second Doctor encounters sonic technology before the sonic screwdriver first shows up. The Vulcan colony in "The Power of the Daleks" uses sonic keys on their prison cells. The Cybermen's mind-control device in "The Moonbase" uses sonic controls. The Ice Warriors use sonic guns. So I can see where the Doctor got his idea for making a screwdriver a little more sonic. True, when he first used it in "Fury from the Deep," he claimed it "never fails," implying prior use, but he used a conventional screwdriver in "The Faceless Ones" and "The Abominable Snowmen." And Jamie, who'd been with him for a while, had never seen the sonic screwdriver before then. So the Doctor may have been boasting a bit there.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I suppose, though I wonder how the sales did with the History Collection re-print novels last year, a collection which did include two pure historicals. And more specifically how well they did compared to the others. Though, to be honest, I suspect Human Nature was likely the bestseller of the batch.

At the time, I wondered if this was their way of testing the waters to see if there was any interest in historicals among the modern audience.

Not especially. I have heard through the publishing grapevine that the reason BBC Books has pushed reprints and past Doctor projects in recent years is that it's easier for them to get approvals from Cardiff on previously published material than it is to get approvals on new material.

 

[Lucas35]

Here is the best Clara analysis and its passage in the series from start to finish with its development:

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/clara-oswald-a-study-of-the-impossible-girl-78428.htm

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/clara-oswald-a-study-of-the-impossible-mirror-78978.htm

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/clara-oswald-a-study-of-the-impossible-storyteller-part-1-79998.htm

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/clara-oswald-a-study-of-the-impossible-storyteller-part-2-80054.htm

http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/clara-oswald-a-study-of-the-impossible-storyteller-part-3-80103.htm

 

[Chris3123]

Heh...

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