I agree; from a cold-hearted BBC exec point of view, terminating Who around the time of Trial of a Time Lord made sense. It was ripe for the plucking after JNT and Eric Saward had done their best to turn it into unadulterated fanw*nk. The sad thing is that it had started seriously to pick up again in the later McCoy era, just as the axe fell. Much the same thing happened to the Star Trek franchise in the Voyager/Enterprise era. I can actually see what JNT was trying to do, to take the show away from the pantomime/comedy state it had fallen into in Season 17, to try and make it into serious science fiction again. I like Season 18 far more than a lot of people do. Still, I don't see how anyone can seriously argue that stuff like Twin Dilemma and Resurrection of the Daleks is an improvement over things like Horns of Nimon. I mean, it isn't, and to my mind, Horns of Nimon is far more entertaining.
On the other hand, I think that at times the RTD era has been almost dismissive of some of the qualities that made the original show so distinctive and so good, in its heyday. I really do think that there is a middle ground to be found here, but as I say, whether Moffat is the man to do it...time will tell.
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Date: 2009-06-13 08:33 pm (UTC)On the other hand, I think that at times the RTD era has been almost dismissive of some of the qualities that made the original show so distinctive and so good, in its heyday. I really do think that there is a middle ground to be found here, but as I say, whether Moffat is the man to do it...time will tell.