Oops --- missed this. I struggle to be fair and toremember that Moffat faces, as RTD faced before him, a different kind of audience than Old School Who's audience. The problem is that I can't quite bring myself to believe it. Sex and pretty faces have sold TV programs as long as I can remember; I have no doubt that selling was always a factor in all but the very early years (if that even) of Doctor Who. I will say that 21st century viewers seem less capable, or are perceived by producers to be less capable (so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy) of thinking about and focusing on storyline; the emphasis on "character development" --- if that's what having a character wallow and indulge in immature behavior can be called --- over story virtually must lead to an overall decline in story and series. I'm hoping that, with a not-so-well-known actor playing the Doctor, the production team may let themselves return to a more story-oriented focus than character/relationship focus. Then we'll get things like "Seeds of Death"; they took an entire episode to set that one up without thrusting any relationship dynamic in our face and we still got to come away with a little more insight into not only Troughton's Doctor, but every other character in that serial.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 01:44 am (UTC)As you say, however, time will tell.