Avoiding Work.
I'm supposed to be writing a script. So of course, I'm filling out a meme instead.
1. Who is your favourite Doctor, why?
Eleven. I am absolutely in love with the bow tie and the awkwardness and the weird, random attacks of hostility and assholishness--yeah, no, I'll stop being cute. (I actually do like Eleven! He's just not my favorite.)
It's Ten, of course. Why? Hm. I think because I feel that in this regeneration, both the writing and the acting took the character the furthest he's gone, so far, on the show. Ten's arc was all about exploring the Doctor as a character rather than a TV show hero; it addressed his faults and the problems this character would run into if the script didn't favor him week after week and write him out of the dead ends he gets himself into. Not that Ten wasn't favored by the scripts as well; of course he was, being the show's protagonist. But his actions had consequences, much more so than in any other regeneration of the Doctor, and I loved seeing the character become an actual person rather than an idea.
Second favorite is Seven. Because he's badass and blows shit up. I'm easy.
2. What do you think of the Daleks?
SO MUCH MORE AWESOME THAN THE CYBERMEN. Ahem. I like the Daleks. I mean, they're 60s SF villains, so they're a bit, uh. Unsubtle. And horribly incompetent. But they work, as villains, and I'd rather have the Daleks as stand-in villains than the show coming up with one cardboard cut-out pantomime villain after the other.
3. Your thoughts on RTD and Moffat.
Ahahaha. You're on my f-list, so I'M SURE YOU KNOW. I'm a card-carrying member of the RTD camp. Disregarding Who, he's my favorite television writer in general. I love his grasp on character development and the way he doesn't shy away from doing risky stuff on his shows. I am also in awe of his ability to run as tight a ship as he did with Doctor Who. It was his show, he set the tone, and made sure that nothing was ever included that he felt didn't match up with the rest. I've never seen any series producer manage this as well as he did with DW. It kept the show on track, and prevented it from falling apart as so many other shows do after a season or two. I feel that he took DW one step further, from an amusing, but rather generic monster-of-the-week show to a show that used its potential to the largest extent possible. He did end up making a few missteps--*cough*Rose*cough*--and he has a tendency to write plots that get bigger with every new episode, which did strain the format and required the suspension of quite a bit of disbelief. Personally, I wasn't bothered by that, though--I'm very much into stories for the character development, and he managed to keep the character development sound and solid throughout his entire run as an executive producer.
Moffat . . . yeah. No. He isn't any worse than most mediocre show producers, but the fact that he took over from RTD, who knew how to access the format's potential and to get it on screen as undiluted as possible makes Moffat's shortcomings stand out quite glaringly. He's failing to set a consistent tone, to narrow his narration down to the essential, important key events and plots, which made this season feel like a vague mist of unspecified thoughts and ideas. As a writer, I feel he does well as long as he's restriced to a 45-minute episode--and isn't required to do any character building, as this is something that he seems both completely incapable of as well as completely uninterested in doing. His forte are clever plots--but as with setting the show's tone in general, I felt that in season 5, he got bogged down in all his hints and details and failed both to make the individual episodes interesting as well as to make the overall plot hold together the way he seemed to be trying to do. Basically, season 5 felt like a first draft--some nice ideas, some clever bits and bobs, but still in need of a whole lot of work to make it tighter and more focused.
And then there's the bit where he's a sexist dick who seems to take great delight in showing his privileged straight ass in public, which isn't exactly something that endears him to me.
4. What is your favourite Christmas Special? Why?
Probably Runaway Bride. Why? Because it's got Donna. Duh. ;)
5. Your favourite companion?
Donna. Ace is pretty awesome, too. I've come to like Martha in season 4, as well. Oh, and the Brig, of course. The Brig sort of wins at life.
6. Least favourite companion?
Sorry to say that it's Amy. Not so much because of the character, but because of the way she's written and portrayed. I'd gotten used to having strong, fully-formed female characters on the show, and Amy was a pretty huge let-down in that regard.
7. Least favourite Doctor?
Four. Because I despise the way Tom Baker is using the character to showcase his unjustifiably high opinion of himself.
8. Favourite episode/arch/storyline?
Midnight is my favorite episode. My favorite arch would probably be End of Time. Not so much because of the actual plot in those episodes, but because I thought it portrayed the relationship between the Doctor and the Master in ways it's never been done before on the show--or rather, in ways that have been hinted at for years, but never actually executed. I very much appreciated RTD daring to step out of the usual constraints the show puts on the development of the main pro- and antagonist.
9. Your OTP/OT3/OT4? Why?
Doctor/Master. Because co-dependency is awesome. Doctor/TARDIS. For, uh, the same reason. Ten/Donna. Because Donna is the one single person I can see Ten actually having a good, healthy, productive relationship with, and the guy deserves a break now and again.
10. How did you get into Doctor Who?
neery said I should join her in watching this awesome show about this alien who flies around in a phone box. That was back in . . . 2007, maybe? I didn't get into the fandom until just after season 3 finished airing, though.
11. If you could meet any of the actors/actresses/writers/directors/staff from DW who would it be?
Julie Gardner, RTD, David Tennant. Mostly, though, Julie Gardner. Because RTD and DT get enough credit for their work on Doctor Who, but JG did as much or more for the show, and I want to tell her that she's my TV business hero.
12. What do you think of K-9?
. . . he's a metal dog? I have no deep thoughts on K-9. Except that it took me ages to catch the K-9 pun. D'oh.
13. Do you watch the spin-offs?
Torchwood, yes. I gritted my teeth through season one and two and cried my eyes out over Children of Earth. I AM SO HYPED FOR THE NEW TORCHWOOD SHOW. It will be marvellous.
SJA, no. I watched one episode, and it bored me to death. So I skipped that one.
14. Classic/New Series?
New. I don't mind Classic, but everything up to Five is just too slow for my horribly short attention span. Six is, well, Six. I do adore Seven. But I'm mainly a New Who fan.
15. If you could be part of any episode (say for instance you were a companion) which episode would you like to be in?
Uh. I think I could handle Christmas Invasion. Except that I'm A positive, which means I'd've ended up on the roof. Most useful companion ever.
16. Favourite planet/time explored on DW?
Earth. Hur hur hur. I prefer the episodes set on Earth, because they usually focus more on characters. That's a very broad blanket statement, and probably not applicable in all cases, but it seems to be a tendency.
17. Favourite minor characters?
Jethro in Midnight. Christina de Souza in Planet of the Dead, but only because I RP her and have a pretty awesome backstory for her. Wilf. Is Wilf a minor character? If so, I love him to death. Jackie and Mickey are pretty neat, too. Oh, and ELTON. Elton is a Mike Warren character who doesn't squick me! Those are rare, poor Mike Warren.
I'm . . . alright? Busy. Senior year is busy. I did a week of work experience with a local independent TV company last week, and am deciding that I really would love to work in this business. It's silly. You spend your days trawling the internet trying to find ways of acquiring a sawn-off shotgun for cheap, and everyone takes it dead seriously. Because dammit, that shotgun is the most important prop in that reconstruction, and it might actually be in focus for ten seconds. So it's gotta be a good one. But we have no budget, so try to get it for free. It's awesome.
Happy Halloween! Not that I celebrate Halloween, but I suppose a few people on the f-list probably do? If not, just, you know. Happy 31st of October. How is everyone?
this entry on dreamwidth ||
comments on dw || comment on dw
1. Who is your favourite Doctor, why?
Eleven. I am absolutely in love with the bow tie and the awkwardness and the weird, random attacks of hostility and assholishness--yeah, no, I'll stop being cute. (I actually do like Eleven! He's just not my favorite.)
It's Ten, of course. Why? Hm. I think because I feel that in this regeneration, both the writing and the acting took the character the furthest he's gone, so far, on the show. Ten's arc was all about exploring the Doctor as a character rather than a TV show hero; it addressed his faults and the problems this character would run into if the script didn't favor him week after week and write him out of the dead ends he gets himself into. Not that Ten wasn't favored by the scripts as well; of course he was, being the show's protagonist. But his actions had consequences, much more so than in any other regeneration of the Doctor, and I loved seeing the character become an actual person rather than an idea.
Second favorite is Seven. Because he's badass and blows shit up. I'm easy.
2. What do you think of the Daleks?
SO MUCH MORE AWESOME THAN THE CYBERMEN. Ahem. I like the Daleks. I mean, they're 60s SF villains, so they're a bit, uh. Unsubtle. And horribly incompetent. But they work, as villains, and I'd rather have the Daleks as stand-in villains than the show coming up with one cardboard cut-out pantomime villain after the other.
3. Your thoughts on RTD and Moffat.
Ahahaha. You're on my f-list, so I'M SURE YOU KNOW. I'm a card-carrying member of the RTD camp. Disregarding Who, he's my favorite television writer in general. I love his grasp on character development and the way he doesn't shy away from doing risky stuff on his shows. I am also in awe of his ability to run as tight a ship as he did with Doctor Who. It was his show, he set the tone, and made sure that nothing was ever included that he felt didn't match up with the rest. I've never seen any series producer manage this as well as he did with DW. It kept the show on track, and prevented it from falling apart as so many other shows do after a season or two. I feel that he took DW one step further, from an amusing, but rather generic monster-of-the-week show to a show that used its potential to the largest extent possible. He did end up making a few missteps--*cough*Rose*cough*--and he has a tendency to write plots that get bigger with every new episode, which did strain the format and required the suspension of quite a bit of disbelief. Personally, I wasn't bothered by that, though--I'm very much into stories for the character development, and he managed to keep the character development sound and solid throughout his entire run as an executive producer.
Moffat . . . yeah. No. He isn't any worse than most mediocre show producers, but the fact that he took over from RTD, who knew how to access the format's potential and to get it on screen as undiluted as possible makes Moffat's shortcomings stand out quite glaringly. He's failing to set a consistent tone, to narrow his narration down to the essential, important key events and plots, which made this season feel like a vague mist of unspecified thoughts and ideas. As a writer, I feel he does well as long as he's restriced to a 45-minute episode--and isn't required to do any character building, as this is something that he seems both completely incapable of as well as completely uninterested in doing. His forte are clever plots--but as with setting the show's tone in general, I felt that in season 5, he got bogged down in all his hints and details and failed both to make the individual episodes interesting as well as to make the overall plot hold together the way he seemed to be trying to do. Basically, season 5 felt like a first draft--some nice ideas, some clever bits and bobs, but still in need of a whole lot of work to make it tighter and more focused.
And then there's the bit where he's a sexist dick who seems to take great delight in showing his privileged straight ass in public, which isn't exactly something that endears him to me.
4. What is your favourite Christmas Special? Why?
Probably Runaway Bride. Why? Because it's got Donna. Duh. ;)
5. Your favourite companion?
Donna. Ace is pretty awesome, too. I've come to like Martha in season 4, as well. Oh, and the Brig, of course. The Brig sort of wins at life.
6. Least favourite companion?
Sorry to say that it's Amy. Not so much because of the character, but because of the way she's written and portrayed. I'd gotten used to having strong, fully-formed female characters on the show, and Amy was a pretty huge let-down in that regard.
7. Least favourite Doctor?
Four. Because I despise the way Tom Baker is using the character to showcase his unjustifiably high opinion of himself.
8. Favourite episode/arch/storyline?
Midnight is my favorite episode. My favorite arch would probably be End of Time. Not so much because of the actual plot in those episodes, but because I thought it portrayed the relationship between the Doctor and the Master in ways it's never been done before on the show--or rather, in ways that have been hinted at for years, but never actually executed. I very much appreciated RTD daring to step out of the usual constraints the show puts on the development of the main pro- and antagonist.
9. Your OTP/OT3/OT4? Why?
Doctor/Master. Because co-dependency is awesome. Doctor/TARDIS. For, uh, the same reason. Ten/Donna. Because Donna is the one single person I can see Ten actually having a good, healthy, productive relationship with, and the guy deserves a break now and again.
10. How did you get into Doctor Who?
neery said I should join her in watching this awesome show about this alien who flies around in a phone box. That was back in . . . 2007, maybe? I didn't get into the fandom until just after season 3 finished airing, though.
11. If you could meet any of the actors/actresses/writers/directors/staff from DW who would it be?
Julie Gardner, RTD, David Tennant. Mostly, though, Julie Gardner. Because RTD and DT get enough credit for their work on Doctor Who, but JG did as much or more for the show, and I want to tell her that she's my TV business hero.
12. What do you think of K-9?
. . . he's a metal dog? I have no deep thoughts on K-9. Except that it took me ages to catch the K-9 pun. D'oh.
13. Do you watch the spin-offs?
Torchwood, yes. I gritted my teeth through season one and two and cried my eyes out over Children of Earth. I AM SO HYPED FOR THE NEW TORCHWOOD SHOW. It will be marvellous.
SJA, no. I watched one episode, and it bored me to death. So I skipped that one.
14. Classic/New Series?
New. I don't mind Classic, but everything up to Five is just too slow for my horribly short attention span. Six is, well, Six. I do adore Seven. But I'm mainly a New Who fan.
15. If you could be part of any episode (say for instance you were a companion) which episode would you like to be in?
Uh. I think I could handle Christmas Invasion. Except that I'm A positive, which means I'd've ended up on the roof. Most useful companion ever.
16. Favourite planet/time explored on DW?
Earth. Hur hur hur. I prefer the episodes set on Earth, because they usually focus more on characters. That's a very broad blanket statement, and probably not applicable in all cases, but it seems to be a tendency.
17. Favourite minor characters?
Jethro in Midnight. Christina de Souza in Planet of the Dead, but only because I RP her and have a pretty awesome backstory for her. Wilf. Is Wilf a minor character? If so, I love him to death. Jackie and Mickey are pretty neat, too. Oh, and ELTON. Elton is a Mike Warren character who doesn't squick me! Those are rare, poor Mike Warren.
I'm . . . alright? Busy. Senior year is busy. I did a week of work experience with a local independent TV company last week, and am deciding that I really would love to work in this business. It's silly. You spend your days trawling the internet trying to find ways of acquiring a sawn-off shotgun for cheap, and everyone takes it dead seriously. Because dammit, that shotgun is the most important prop in that reconstruction, and it might actually be in focus for ten seconds. So it's gotta be a good one. But we have no budget, so try to get it for free. It's awesome.
Happy Halloween! Not that I celebrate Halloween, but I suppose a few people on the f-list probably do? If not, just, you know. Happy 31st of October. How is everyone?
this entry on dreamwidth ||
comments on dw || comment on dw