Yes! Honor Blackman! Thank you! That was bugging me, as these things do. And yes, I Diana Rigg was her replacement, in fact.
the hiatus may prove to be a serious mistake
Not the first one the BBC has ever made vis-a-vis Doctor Who, and probably not the last. Unfortunately.
I can only shake my head and wonder at what their reasoning was for doing things the way they have.
I'll bet it's at least in part to revenue on Ten's action figure sales and a brutal game of hardball with Tennant's extremely astute and adept agent. S/he must be to have gotten him the sweet deal of "finagle on your contract and still get to hang around on your terms" he got. Alas, the show itself suffers after a dramatic rebirth.
...how cool would it have been if the Journey's End regeneration had been a real one...
Cooler than a penguin's soles. And something that could have propelled the show into perpetual, money-making popularity. Time Lords are supposed to regenerate, and it would have been well for the show to remind viewers of that then and there. Oh well.
You are better person than I am about all this, I think. I don't forgive. Instead, I take it as an opportunity to grumble.
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Date: 2009-06-17 12:11 am (UTC)the hiatus may prove to be a serious mistake
Not the first one the BBC has ever made vis-a-vis Doctor Who, and probably not the last. Unfortunately.
I can only shake my head and wonder at what their reasoning was for doing things the way they have.
I'll bet it's at least in part to revenue on Ten's action figure sales and a brutal game of hardball with Tennant's extremely astute and adept agent. S/he must be to have gotten him the sweet deal of "finagle on your contract and still get to hang around on your terms" he got. Alas, the show itself suffers after a dramatic rebirth.
...how cool would it have been if the Journey's End regeneration had been a real one...
Cooler than a penguin's soles. And something that could have propelled the show into perpetual, money-making popularity. Time Lords are supposed to regenerate, and it would have been well for the show to remind viewers of that then and there. Oh well.
You are better person than I am about all this, I think. I don't forgive. Instead, I take it as an opportunity to grumble.