Dr Who: The Russel T Davies Years
Jan. 1st, 2010 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Year 1:
RTD: Dr Who should be exciting and emotional.
Audience: Yes. Although it would also be nice if more of it made sense.
Year 2:
RTD: Dr Who should EXCITING and EMOTIONAL.
Audience: Yes. And some more sense please.
Year 3:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: Actually, I'm feeling a bit excited out. And now none of it makes sense.
Year 4:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: Stop shouting! Please stop shouting! I don't even care if it makes sense any more!
Year 5:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: He's going soon, right? Has he gone yet? Is it safe to come out?
RTD: Dr Who should be exciting and emotional.
Audience: Yes. Although it would also be nice if more of it made sense.
Year 2:
RTD: Dr Who should EXCITING and EMOTIONAL.
Audience: Yes. And some more sense please.
Year 3:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: Actually, I'm feeling a bit excited out. And now none of it makes sense.
Year 4:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: Stop shouting! Please stop shouting! I don't even care if it makes sense any more!
Year 5:
RTD: Dr Who should be EXCITING and EMOTIONAL
Audience: He's going soon, right? Has he gone yet? Is it safe to come out?
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Date: 2010-01-01 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 09:16 pm (UTC)It works for non-RTD eps quite well:
"Donna and the Doctor visit a planet that's a library, are attacked by carniverous shadows and meet the Doctor's future wife".
Best I can manage for End of Time:
"Some really self indulgent shit happens for two hours and the music tells me I should be crying".
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:00 pm (UTC)And yes. It's not that if you can't squeeze the plot into a sentence it's a bad plot. I couldn't summarise The Godfather or Goodfellas beyond 'some guy rises to the top and has some reservations'. But if you can't even *start* to summarise the plot...
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Date: 2010-01-02 10:32 pm (UTC)Or, at least, that's what all the Rusty Davie-penned season finales tell me.
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Date: 2010-01-02 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-01-02 03:17 pm (UTC)*cries*
I'm gonna go watch my Hartnell-era Dr Who DVDs now. They may have had cardboard sets but at least it doesn't leave me wanting to bleach my brain out to get rid of teh stupids.
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Date: 2010-01-02 11:09 pm (UTC)I was actually impressed, slightly, by The End Of Time Part 2: While it had not one but TWO uses of the History Eraser Button, in both cases it didn't actually erase history, just solve everything instantly. And it was a Rusty Davies story that *didn't* entire revolve around Time Lord Regeneration! It's a genuine Christmas Miracle, that's what that is.
(And since when can The Master throw bolts of lightning from his hands and fly? Oh, I know, "since part one, last week," but seriously, the fuck?)
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Date: 2010-01-03 05:47 am (UTC)Maybe he was resurrected with Midichlorians in his new body?
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:52 pm (UTC)'Who the FUCK cast Cathy Tate?'
If I were a cynical man, I'd suggest David Tennant quit because he was as bloody sick of her as I am
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:39 pm (UTC)(came her via miss_s_b)
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Date: 2010-01-03 02:27 am (UTC)Have a nice day.
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Date: 2010-01-03 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-03 05:34 am (UTC)"Eleven! That's ridiculous. It's not even funny."
Actually took me more time to make the icon than it did to get over that opinion, but still.
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Date: 2010-01-03 05:42 am (UTC)Or maybe a familiar? After all, it's well known that TARDISes are grown, not made...
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Date: 2010-01-03 05:54 am (UTC)A TARDIS familiar makes perfect sense, it really does.