Dr Who: The Russel T Davies Years

[andrewducker]

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?

Comments

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Fun game: try to explain in a sentence the story of that episode.

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".

[broin.livejournal.com]

You're following that Phantom Menace review!

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...

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The Godfather: Guy tries to leave his Mafia family behind and live a wholesome all-Amerkan life. It drags him back in.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Our eldest (16) missed part 1 and asked his sister (10) for a summary, which he then related back to me as "So the Master comes back as some sort of cannibal dinosaur..."

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

On Twitter, Sarah Millican's come up with one: "It's very simple. James Bond has put a drum in Sam Tyler's head, and Bernard Cribbins from the Wombles has to stop him."

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that was Caitlin Moran. Should put glasses on.