Happy 52nd Anniversary!

[jjpor]

Does it really seem like two years to you since we had the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who, The Day of the Doctor, The Five(ish) Doctors and all the rest of that jazz? No, not to me either! I hope as many of you as possible got to do something Who-ish today however small, in consideration of the occasion

Comments

[dbskyler]

What a wonderful interview! Thanks so much for sharing that.

People may have differing opinions about Moffat's work, but I don't think anyone disputes that he really cares about Doctor Who, and is a genuine fan of the show. (I would say the same about RTD as well.)

[lost_spook]

but I don't think anyone disputes that he really cares about Doctor Who, and is a genuine fan of the show.

:lol: If only that were true and sanity prevailed throughout the fandom! (Mind, I suppose that would be a bit boring.) There are some corners of the internet where they totally seem to think he's actually plotting to destroy the show on purpose, which seems a trifle self-defeating to me, but you should never let logic get in the way of these things.

(And, yes, I think they're both huge, huge fans, whatever else they may be. So are an awful lot of the people who've worked on New Who - the love never dies.)

[ravenskyewalker]

Yes, parts of fandom love to scream about how Moffat is evil and must be stopped. Oh, and there's Lawrence Miles, loony former DW novel writer, who will never watch DW again while Moffat's showrunner, because Moffat's evil, and it's a cult of personality, and it's all stupid and horrible with him around, and he himself is being prevented from ever writing DW books again because of EvIL MoFFaT. Gee, you narcissistic psychopath, I can't imagine how anything you've said has possibly ever affected your ability to get writing work again... (Backs away from ever reading any of the Lawrence Miles books I still haven't read, which are a few.)

[lost_spook]

It's more fun when what you don't like is actually evil incarnate, I suppose.

The thing about Lawrence Miles is that, strange as his attitude to the show is (and he hasn't liked it save rare occasions since 1973, as far as I can gather, never mind Mr Moffat), he is a good writer. (And I say that as someone who hated Interference so much I may actually have even recycled it instead of given it away.) I would still read any of his DW books. Which makes it all the more the shame that he doesn't pick himself up and go write something awesome, really. (Unless he has, in which case yay. But I don't look, because life is too short.)

DW's got room for fans who hate any given aspect/era of it, but declaring those bits EVIL is always a worrying move on anyone's part!

[ravenskyewalker]

To be honest, I'm conflicted about Moffat, because I've often found him hella annoying, but then read his comments in DWM and start laughing helplessly. I liked the Eleventh Doctor better than the Ninth and Tenth, but found the writing disappointing. I adore Capaldi, but again, a lot of the writing isn't quite what it could be, which is frustrating. But I can get past that, because hey, I loved the Seventh Doctor, but some of that writing

[lost_spook]

Heh, it's such a big EU out there, isn't it?

And I had DWM when RTD was running the show and he used to do the Production Notes column, and regardless of how much I prefer Moffat-era Who so far, he really is a giant fan and the column was often about how excited he was that the Sixth Doctor Colin Baker visited the set! And that night he stayed up till 3am and learned to love Underworld. Plus, The Writer's Tale is full of him being so excited about how great his stories are going to be ("There will be a giant Cyberman! In Victorian London! So cool!") and you're just shaking your head and going, "No, Russell, no." But it's hard not to like his huge love for DW, old and new.

As to Steven Moffat, I owe him forever for Press Gang and Lynda Day and everything else is moot.

And I think you're right - best just to debate what's on screen and not worry too much about the showrunner!

[dbskyler]

There are some corners of the internet where they totally seem to think he's actually plotting to destroy the show on purpose

What?? Is this on tumblr?

This makes me glad to stay here on LJ, where my flist is nice and sane. :)

[lost_spook]

Oh, you run into it everywhere from time to time. Corners of LJ, the odd Tumblr, blogs. I try to avoid it, but every so often I stumble over it and blink a bit. And then avoid it harder! :-)

[shyfoxling]

...on purpose? Run it into the ground through incompetence would at least be plausible (whether or not one agrees), but on purpose? Do they suppose he doesn't like getting paychecks?

[lost_spook]

He's just That Evil, apparently. *shakes head*