Kate Winslet as River Song- oh dear God that would have been FAN-TASTIC!!
Bit worried about the Christmas episode now. I was actually looking forward to a dark episode- after all the notion of a gothic Christmas Victorian ghost story has a long tradition- but nah let's have a knockabout fun frolic...so like 95% of other RTD scripts then. Sigh- I will, as always- reserve judgment till I see it.
95%? I don't know if that's fair. I think that some of his work is fun and frolicy, some middling, and some very dark.
To wit...
"Rose" - middling
"The End of the World" - middling to dark
"Aliens of London"/"World War Three" - middling
"The Long Game" - dark
"Boom Town" - middling
"Bad Wolf" - frolicy
"The Parting of the Ways" - middling
"Child In Need" - frolicy
"The Christmas Invasion" - frolicy
"New Earth" - frolicy
"Tooth and Claw" - middling
"Love & Monsters" - middling
"Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" - middling until the very end, then genuinely dark
"The Runaway Bride" - frolicy until the end, when it gets quite dark
"Smith and Jones" - frolicy
"Gridlock" - middling
"Utopia" - dark
"The Sound of Drums" - middling with dark spots
"Last of the Time Lords" - dark
"Voyage of the Damned" - incredibly dark, especially for a Christmas special
"Partners in Crime" - frolicy
"Midnight" - very dark
"Turn Left" - very, very, VERY dark
"The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" - middling to dark
"Music of the Spheres" - frolicy
Now, granted, that's just my evaluation of the relative tone of each Davies script. But, that's 25 scripts: 8 of them frolicy, 11 middling or middling and dark, and 13 dark or middling and dark.
So from where I'm standing, 32% of Davies scripts are quite light, 44% of Davies scripts are middling or significantly partially middling, and 52% of Davies scripts are dark or significantly partially dark.
