Steven Moffat Talks About The "Raw", "New Direction" For The Series
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You are able to deduce the quality of all aspects of that episode from one snapshot? Wow, thats impressive!
Funny how the "Raw New Direction!!" looks exactly the same as the "Shit old direction", isn't it? It's like he just can't help lying evey time he opens his mouth.
You are able to deduce the quality of all aspects of that episode from one snapshot? Wow, thats impressive!
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I think the problem is more that it often doesn't earn those big emotional moments that he so often employs, and skips past many that it does.
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Well, in defense of Moff a raw new direction could be interpreted many ways (including complete BS) so I'll wait and see. Nothing fires a Who fan up though like a hint of change is there? They could probably hook me until the end of time with that ol' nugget.
Maybe the raw element will be leaving the electrical equipment in the final shots.
Well, in defense of Moff a raw new direction could be interpreted many ways (including complete BS) so I'll wait and see. Nothing fires a Who fan up though like a hint of change is there? They could probably hook me until the end of time with that ol' nugget.
Maybe the raw element will be leaving the electrical equipment in the final shots.
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Here's Capaldi filming - but before you get too excited, he's still in Smith's costume.
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/28764/doctor-who-peter-capaldi-begins-filming-series-8
Here's Capaldi filming - but before you get too excited, he's still in Smith's costume.
http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/doctor-who/28764/doctor-who-peter-capaldi-begins-filming-series-8
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Bloody detective trio! :P
Oh well, lets hope they won't get in the way too much.
Bloody detective trio! :P
Oh well, lets hope they won't get in the way too much.
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Maybe they are there because they are to be deconstructed and discarded? In the same way, the fourth Doctor threw UNIT on the scrapheap?
Maybe they are there because they are to be deconstructed and discarded? In the same way, the fourth Doctor threw UNIT on the scrapheap?
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Yeah there were the occasional flashes of darkness, like with every Doctor, but that to me hardly felt like the defining personality of Smith's Doctor.
To me his nature was probably best summed up by an episode like The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, where he spent the entire episode trying to give this family the most enchanting and memorable Christmas ever. Or Vincent and the Doctor, where he was clearly deeply concerned about the artist and continually trying to cheer him up and offer him hope.
In fact he was offering inspiration and hope to nearly everyone he encountered, and was generally about as cheerful and happy go lucky as one can get. The momentary flashes or anger or sadness don't come close to overcoming those things, at least in my mind.
Yeah there were the occasional flashes of darkness, like with every Doctor, but that to me hardly felt like the defining personality of Smith's Doctor.
To me his nature was probably best summed up by an episode like The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, where he spent the entire episode trying to give this family the most enchanting and memorable Christmas ever. Or Vincent and the Doctor, where he was clearly deeply concerned about the artist and continually trying to cheer him up and offer him hope.
In fact he was offering inspiration and hope to nearly everyone he encountered, and was generally about as cheerful and happy go lucky as one can get. The momentary flashes or anger or sadness don't come close to overcoming those things, at least in my mind.
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See, to me I saw it as him trying too hard. Not the actor, I mean the Doctor was trying so very very hard to be upbeat and positive and constructive. Like a long-suffering depressive putting on a "fun" persona for their friends and family so as to not impose their suffering on anyone else, and maybe in the hopes that if they fake it long enough they'll actually find themselves accidentally being happy for a little while.
See, to me I saw it as him trying too hard. Not the actor, I mean the Doctor was trying so very very hard to be upbeat and positive and constructive. Like a long-suffering depressive putting on a "fun" persona for their friends and family so as to not impose their suffering on anyone else, and maybe in the hopes that if they fake it long enough they'll actually find themselves accidentally being happy for a little while.
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I think this is a good point. And, I say that as someone who enjoys the majority of Moffat's work.
However, it's always good to get other opinions and have people feel safe to speak up when something isn't working.
Mr Awe
I think this is a good point. And, I say that as someone who enjoys the majority of Moffat's work.
However, it's always good to get other opinions and have people feel safe to speak up when something isn't working.
Mr Awe
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I don't think the comparison holds any water.
Lucas was, during the PT era, the billionaire founder and owner of Lucasfilm, creator, owner and sole creative guide for Star Wars. He could do whatever he wanted with the property and basically did so.
Moffatt is not the creator of DW, does not own it and is employed by and answerable to the BBC. I'm sure he's much more aware of the pressures and expectations on him than Lucas was and while his position is secure for now, I'm sure he knows that it's not permanent and he's only as good as his last run of episodes. I don't doubt that he has an ego and that it's large but he's a long way removed from Lucas' isolation.
I don't think the comparison holds any water.
Lucas was, during the PT era, the billionaire founder and owner of Lucasfilm, creator, owner and sole creative guide for Star Wars. He could do whatever he wanted with the property and basically did so.
Moffatt is not the creator of DW, does not own it and is employed by and answerable to the BBC. I'm sure he's much more aware of the pressures and expectations on him than Lucas was and while his position is secure for now, I'm sure he knows that it's not permanent and he's only as good as his last run of episodes. I don't doubt that he has an ego and that it's large but he's a long way removed from Lucas' isolation.
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I think Time of the Doctor just suffered from the same problem Wedding of River Song did, which was too many ambitious ideas crammed into too short a running time. They're definitely very flawed, but I'd gladly watch either one over Lucas's SW prequels again.
I think Time of the Doctor just suffered from the same problem Wedding of River Song did, which was too many ambitious ideas crammed into too short a running time. They're definitely very flawed, but I'd gladly watch either one over Lucas's SW prequels again.
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This is definitely the crux of my problems with this period. I think Moffat has been dealt a bad hand (the "half seasons" thing) and has adapted the structure of the series very poorly to it.
This is definitely the crux of my problems with this period. I think Moffat has been dealt a bad hand (the "half seasons" thing) and has adapted the structure of the series very poorly to it.
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From what Moffat has said in interviews he doesn't have any real control over BBC programme scheduling, especially when asked about the "lack" of Doctor Who in the show's 50th anniversary year. So, the idea of the split series/seasons would have probably come from higher up in the BBC. This suggests that the production team just have to make do with what they're allotted.
As to how much feedback Moffat gets about his scripts, he brings that up in the following interview:
http://youtu.be/h7VQrnMzjrU?t=8m5s
From what Moffat has said in interviews he doesn't have any real control over BBC programme scheduling, especially when asked about the "lack" of Doctor Who in the show's 50th anniversary year. So, the idea of the split series/seasons would have probably come from higher up in the BBC. This suggests that the production team just have to make do with what they're allotted.
As to how much feedback Moffat gets about his scripts, he brings that up in the following interview:
http://youtu.be/h7VQrnMzjrU?t=8m5s
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Yup.
Let's hope not. The Paternoster Gang is one of the best new things the show has done.
Yup.
Let's hope not. The Paternoster Gang is one of the best new things the show has done.
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I have no problem with the Paternoster Gang as occassional sidekicks, like in The Snowmen. But I really don't want to see them carrying most of the episode again like they did in Crimson Horror.
I have no problem with the Paternoster Gang as occassional sidekicks, like in The Snowmen. But I really don't want to see them carrying most of the episode again like they did in Crimson Horror.
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Why would they? That episode was written specifically to feature them, to be the season's "Doctor-light" episode, the exception to the rule. It seems unlikely that they'd sideline the Doctor in Capaldi's debut episode. (Although that is kind of what they did with Tennant in "The Christmas Invasion," I guess.)
Why would they? That episode was written specifically to feature them, to be the season's "Doctor-light" episode, the exception to the rule. It seems unlikely that they'd sideline the Doctor in Capaldi's debut episode. (Although that is kind of what they did with Tennant in "The Christmas Invasion," I guess.)
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