"Character driven", in other words, which is often just a syonym for low-grade soap opera.
Or, to call a shovel a spade, adolescent titillation for the sake of nothing more than itself. Oh, and for the sake of ratings. On the other hand, I was a rather boring, cloistered adolescent. Perhaps I am not qualified to judge. (****snork****) Yeah, right. Like I'll ever cop to that.
I agree. I think a year's hiatus may have ultimately disastrous impact on the show's viability. A handful of specials does not a whetting of the appetite make. It's not like there was a rampant, 16-year-long, all-across-the-board collective howl into the wilderness for the show's return. Other brains in charge may well have decided that's Tennant's popularity (and I guess RTD's clout, but it's not like he has lots of teenyboppers throwing themselves at him the way the star does so it may not matter as much) simply wasn't strong enough to forestall moving right along to Eleven. I would have if I'd been in charge. Momentum is all.
Stunt-casting may be a little distasteful in concept, but it can be executed tastefully in practice. Pussy Galore in the Vervoid section of "Trial of a Time Lord" (sheez, I wanna call her Anne Francis but I know that's Honey West; I'm just channeling the guys in "Resevoir Dogs" --- I least I know it's not Pam Grier) was, I think and for what the story was, nicely executed stunt-casting. However, if it's all going to be in the service of feeding the self-pitying, solace-seeking trip we've seen in NuWho, then it'll be awful. I may very well stop watching then, and I'll be seriously pissed off because I'm actually prouder of my 31 years of Doctor Who appreciation than I am of my 21 years spent practicing law. Oif - How sad is that?
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Or, to call a shovel a spade, adolescent titillation for the sake of nothing more than itself. Oh, and for the sake of ratings. On the other hand, I was a rather boring, cloistered adolescent. Perhaps I am not qualified to judge. (****snork****) Yeah, right. Like I'll ever cop to that.
I agree. I think a year's hiatus may have ultimately disastrous impact on the show's viability. A handful of specials does not a whetting of the appetite make. It's not like there was a rampant, 16-year-long, all-across-the-board collective howl into the wilderness for the show's return. Other brains in charge may well have decided that's Tennant's popularity (and I guess RTD's clout, but it's not like he has lots of teenyboppers throwing themselves at him the way the star does so it may not matter as much) simply wasn't strong enough to forestall moving right along to Eleven. I would have if I'd been in charge. Momentum is all.
Stunt-casting may be a little distasteful in concept, but it can be executed tastefully in practice. Pussy Galore in the Vervoid section of "Trial of a Time Lord" (sheez, I wanna call her Anne Francis but I know that's Honey West; I'm just channeling the guys in "Resevoir Dogs" --- I least I know it's not Pam Grier) was, I think and for what the story was, nicely executed stunt-casting. However, if it's all going to be in the service of feeding the self-pitying, solace-seeking trip we've seen in NuWho, then it'll be awful. I may very well stop watching then, and I'll be seriously pissed off because I'm actually prouder of my 31 years of Doctor Who appreciation than I am of my 21 years spent practicing law. Oif - How sad is that?