To be fair, it was a paraphrased quote to the effect that (or so it seemed) no matter what was written, it was never possible to construe anything as being lacking in continuity. I interpreted --- somewhat dejectedly and perhaps incorrectly --- this to mean he felt that it was all right to willy-nilly and glaringly contradict prior show stuff for the heck of it (e.g., Eleven suddenly didn't kill Sutekh, even though Four did, or Reapers don't exist for Eleven when they did for Nine) because time travel makes all things possible. I like consistency within a serial (I'm a crazy demon for it, in fact --- I got incensed beyond all proportion at a "House" episode where an actress had a pen behind her ear then turned up without it in the same scene after a cutaway), but I tend to extend it to an entire show. Right or wrong, I count Doctor Who back to 1963 as one entire show. I'm still quite looking forward to Moffat's take on everything, though.
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Date: 2009-06-11 07:45 am (UTC)