Torchwood written by Joss Whedon? It's called Supernatural, isn't it?
Should Joss Whedon write an episode?
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RTD has said more than once that he wasn't going to write any more Doctor Who once he'd gone. He might get homesick, though, in a few years' time...
I think he might...anyway if he's not going to do anymore Who once Moffat takes over where does this leave the proposed big budget Tennant film?
Presumably what RTD and numerous others have said it is: An idea that's never made it past the "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" stage.
Since Joss Whedon primarily just rips off the plots of animes and glosses them up with Cali dialogue -- please no. He set the groundwork with Buffy for the format that nuWho took, but RTD mastered it. Whedon can write well, but he doesn't really have the scope or creative vision for a Doctor Who episode.
acutally I think the larger cast might suit JW better.
I'm a big fan of a lot of Whedon's work, but I don't particularly care either way. If the Whedon who wrote things like Buffy: "The Body" wrote an episode, it'd be good. If, on the other hand, we get an episode written by the Whedon who wrote the second-season Dollhouse opener, we'd get, well, "Fear Her." So I don't care all that much...
...besides, what we really need is a Neil Gaiman episode!
...besides, what we really need is a Neil Gaiman episode!
That would have been cool, indeed, but I'm more excited by the prospect of Neil Gaiman.
Fine by me. How's about an episode written by Alan Moore while we're at it?
Thinking about it more, I'm not sure how I would react to a Joss Whedon episode. I love his style of dialogue but he's developed a nasty habit of killing off people I care about. Imagine "Blink" if Sally Sparrow had died.
Wait a minute. What are you talking about? I have trouble thinking of any TV characters that are more stubbornly individualistic than the Doctor. While the Doctor may be fighting for the good of the whole, he does so in a very arbitrary, self-defined way.
Wait a minute. What are you talking about? I have trouble thinking of any TV characters that are more stubbornly individualistic than the Doctor. While the Doctor may be fighting for the good of the whole, he does so in a very arbitrary, self-defined way.
True, but the show also has had a very distinct British pride thing going on -- it's always subtle things, like the Doctor's "Only Britain is great" line, or Harriet Jones's "He's not my boss" -- but it's always been there.
Whedon, on the other hand, seems to depict any and all forms of social organization beyond that of a small number of friends as being inherently corrupt and untrustworthy. Patriotism is simply not a concept that tends to be depicted positively in his work; you'd never hear Buffy slip in a line about the greatness of America, y'know?
^ But IIRC, he is a liberal and a Democrat - not one of the 'all government is bad' brigade. He's stressed several times that, for example, Malcolm Reynolds' views would not be the same as his.
And certainly plenty of the actions of the government in Doctor Who - not to mention in Torchwood's Children of Earth - have been at least as untrustworthy and odious as anything in any Joss Whedon show.
And certainly plenty of the actions of the government in Doctor Who - not to mention in Torchwood's Children of Earth - have been at least as untrustworthy and odious as anything in any Joss Whedon show.