I think it's worse, because they're just playing with us. Kill them, then bring them back, and then kill them again, and then... *Ragefaec* And the ones we don't want to go are the only ones who stay gone.
Playing with the people who are paying your salary. Yeah, Moffat's a real class act with that one. *Rageface* describes my expression pretty well, too, I think.
I just read the article in question and couldn't agree more. It's almost 2 years and I still haven't recovered from being fucked over by the Torchwood powers-that-be, and yet it still came as a bit of a shock to me that they are applying the same tactics now to DW, something that I thought - erroneously, obviously - was safe from being dragged through the dirt for a cheap boost to viewing figures.
Well, from the POV of the producers and the writers -- CoE was a huge success. A lot of people watched it, it got critical acclaim and helped boost T'wood into an American production (for better or worse).
And a good many genre writers (and genre writing books) talk about the importance of shaking up the reader via shock value. I think it's a cop-out, similar to threatening the cute blond child, to cover bad plotting or writing but it's very much a part of the way people think stories are supposed to go.
Oh, absolutely, on paper, CoE was a success. And that might be the reason why Moffat is thinking of repeating it. But yeah, cheap writing is still cheap writing -- the cracks are gonna show. I'm not thinking that my desire for different types of storytelling will have enough sway to matter, btw.
It's connotations, not denotations. Calling [person] a producer has connotations of a suit in an office, making business decisions - whereas a writer gets to make decisions based on creative vision. I mean, the intention was probably to demonise him and suggest that he's making a purely business decision, but he's the writer exec producer - the suit execs are Piers Wenger and Beth Willis.
I haven't seen any comments from him that qualify as being a jerk. But hypothetically? Yes. He has a job to do. There are lines that shouldn't be crossed, but "being a jerk" is not one of them.
Erm but haven't we seen the end of River Song? Or am I being thick? It just seems a bit tedious to me. I guess maybe I'm so scarred after CoE that I have compassion fatigue, but I read that and just thought "yeah, whatever, nothing you can do to me anymore."
Yeah, we have seen the end of River Song. The thing is, I was looking forward to the sort of happy, bouncy drama that DW can be, and then they came with "warning: death". Now I'm all, blah, go away now, again :(.
Yeah, I don't like what this bodes for the series. Death, darkness, drama... that's what I LOVED about last series. It got away from the whole man!pain dark Doctor and gave him lift again. If turns into another emo Gally boy, I'm going to give up.
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I just read the article in question and couldn't agree more. It's almost 2 years and I still haven't recovered from being fucked over by the Torchwood powers-that-be, and yet it still came as a bit of a shock to me that they are applying the same tactics now to DW, something that I thought - erroneously, obviously - was safe from being dragged through the dirt for a cheap boost to viewing figures.
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And a good many genre writers (and genre writing books) talk about the importance of shaking up the reader via shock value. I think it's a cop-out, similar to threatening the cute blond child, to cover bad plotting or writing but it's very much a part of the way people think stories are supposed to go.
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