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Old 20th May 2008, 3:49pm   #1
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Doctor Who fans you may commence rejoicing!
Ding dong RTD's gone!

(Or going rather)

Yes, yes we all knew it was going to happen and we all knew who his replacement was going to be...

But seeing it in print is cause for celebration.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008...bc.television2
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Old 20th May 2008, 3:51pm   #2
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Ooh, I can start watching again.
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Re: Doctor Who fans you may commence rejoicing!
Settle down flyboy.

You have to wait till 2010.
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I know. I can start watching again in 2010.
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The episodes Stephen Moffat has written so far have been good (The Empty Child, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink and the children in need special time crash)
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Wooooohooooo!
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Davies and Julie Gardner, the BBC Wales head of drama, have worked on the fourth series of Doctor Who and are working on four specials for broadcast in 2009.
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Re: Doctor Who fans you may commence rejoicing!
What is it everyone has against the guy? He’s brought Doctor Who back to the screen, updated it for a modern audience without ruining it … if anything he’s managed to make it more popular …

Love this quote from Moffat though: “My entire career has been a secret plan to get this job. I applied before but I got knocked back because the BBC wanted someone else. Also I was seven.”
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What is it everyone has against the guy? He’s brought Doctor Who back to the screen, updated it for a modern audience without ruining it …*if anything he’s managed to make it more popular …
Personally, it's his really awful deus ex machina endings that I hate.

A lot of people dislike him for crowbaring in the gay jokes (See Torchwood Season 2 thread).
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I like the first two RTD seasons, although it was always patchy, but since the second Christmas special it's been an absolute chore to watch.

I don't mind the gay jokes.

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Yeah, there's been some appalling writing in Dr Who over the last few years. 'It's Science Fiction, it doesn't have to make sense'.
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What is it everyone has against the guy? He’s brought Doctor Who back to the screen, updated it for a modern audience without ruining it … if anything he’s managed to make it more popular …

Love this quote from Moffat though: “My entire career has been a secret plan to get this job. I applied before but I got knocked back because the BBC wanted someone else. Also I was seven.”
I'll always appreciate him bringing back Doctor Who, but I'll always fucking hate him for even suggesting that Captain Jack is the Face of Boe.

e: Oh, and jolly good news that Moffat got the gig.
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Re: Doctor Who fans you may commence rejoicing!
He may have brought the show back but it has been getting progressively more like a soap opera thanks to the fact that each companion's entire family gets involved. He leaves Earth even less that Pertwee and even when he does he ends up on a spaceship overlooking earth or on New Earth. The old show may have had Bertie Bassett as an enemy but it was far more inventive.

RTD can't allow a story arc to last longer than one season, and it's often a big build up to an anti-climactic 5 minute finale.

Actually, Doctor Who Confidential is more entertaining because every time RTD appears he'll say something so self-congratulatory that you can't help cringing and laughing at the same time. He really does talk like he writes every single line.
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Someone that reads Outpost Gallifrey or some of the other Who fansites might be able to confirm this, but I have heard (total rumour though) that he really micromanages some of the Who writers to the extent that he might as well be writing more episodes.
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Someone that reads Outpost Gallifrey or some of the other Who fansites might be able to confirm this, but I have heard (total rumour though) that he really micromanages some of the Who writers to the extent that he might as well be writing more episodes.
Oh yeah, he admitted that all of the writers (apart from Moffat) hand their work to him and he'll rewrite chunks and suggest things that are to be added in. It was in a Radio Times interview as well as IIRC.
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