My feelings, they're just a biiiiiiiiit mixed upon reading the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who will be honoured
a drama about the beginnings of the show . On the one hand: great idea, and I hope for Verity Lambert (first producer, and as a young female producer in the BBC in the early 60s a pioneer in more than one way) as the central character.
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I will still be curious to see how this turns out, of course. I particularly want to see who they cast as Hartnell.
While I have nothing, nothing positive to say about Invaders from Mars, The Great Game is my favorite of the first season of Sherlock (it has the least in the way of glaring, obnoxiously blatant plot holes and general stupid, and also I like the pacing).
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Hartnell: um, Christopher Eccleston, she says not entirely jokingly? He has the right age!
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Christopher Eccleston's like ten years younger and ten feet taller than he should be! XD
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They obviously want to recreate the success of The Road to Coronation Street, which was really good (David Dawson was stunning as Tony Warren), even if I got a bit bored with the recurring plotline "no one but actor X could have played character Y and they managed to find her!"
(No Hartnell icon so I've had to fall back on Troughton.)
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I blame the production team for the iDaleks, and assume Gatiss was writing the brief he had been given. But I do blame him for Churchill, who was shockingly underwritten even for a patriotic cartoon. A bad decision, badly executed.
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Indeed. And then you get bubbles and nothing remaining.
I blame the production team for the iDaleks, and assume Gatiss was writing the brief he had been given. But I do blame him for Churchill, who was shockingly underwritten even for a patriotic cartoon. A bad decision, badly executed.
*thinks of Fenris as an example of what DW CAN do with a WWII era story and weeps*
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