Matt's acting has been getting better and better!
But the pacing and writing and directing in these recent episodes has been declining so much. I hope it's just a 'putting all our effort into the 50th' thing
I've really enjoyed the [I]content[/I] of recent episodes, but the direction in some places have been off. However, almost any episode of Who is fun to watch so I don't really have a complaint.
The content has been the problem for me. The directing hasn't been amazing but it hasn't been awful.
The way Who works is Steven comes up with an episode title and a pitch. For example:
[I]Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory meet Dinosaurs on a spaceship.[/I]
Everybody gets one of these. Most change the title. Gaimens was pitched as "The Last Cyberman". Moffats pitches are great. Every episode this series sounds amazing on paper. Moffat did his job good. But the scripts themselves are eh. The problem lies in the pacing and dialogue. Both are rushed and feel like they were tacked on.
Some episodes seem to manage their concept nicely. Hide worked great as a ghost story, Crimson Horror worked well, 7A clicked together nicely, but 7B has fallen victim to having some great pitches end up with rubbish scripts. It doesn't take much to guess what the pitch was for each episode. Sometimes the writers come out and say it. Series 6 had some pretty average pitches such as "pirate ship".
I'm combining script with direction. The content, the stuff on paper, is great and I've enjoyed it but when you think "This is great! But I wonder what this would have been like with a different writer?" you get the idea of what I feel about the episodes.
I think we agree with each other, just different definitions.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40651070]The content has been the problem for me. The directing hasn't been amazing but it hasn't been awful.
The way Who works is Steven comes up with an episode title and a pitch. For example:
[I]Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
The Doctor, Amy, and Rory meet Dinosaurs on a spaceship.[/I]
Everybody gets one of these. Most change the title. Gaimens was pitched as "The Last Cyberman". Moffats pitches are great. Every episode this series sounds amazing on paper. Moffat did his job good. But the scripts themselves are eh. The problem lies in the pacing and dialogue. Both are rushed and feel like they were tacked on.
Some episodes seem to manage their concept nicely. Hide worked great as a ghost story, Crimson Horror worked well, 7A clicked together nicely, but 7B has fallen victim to having some great pitches end up with rubbish scripts. It doesn't take much to guess what the pitch was for each episode. Sometimes the writers come out and say it. Series 6 had some pretty average pitches such as "pirate ship".[/QUOTE]
can't really say that about Hide
but most of the others yeah, I feel that moffat has the reins on too tight and needs to give his writers more freedom
I can forgive Moffat if he has River flayed in a brutal fashion.
I like/don't mind River.
[QUOTE=killerteacup;40651191]can't really say that about Hide
but most of the others yeah, I feel that moffat has the reins on too tight and needs to give his writers more freedom[/QUOTE]
If anything I feel that it's the opposite; he's too preoccupied and stretches himself too thin to really give the scripts finishing touches. He's proved himself to be a qualified writer! He overuses certain tropes, but he can write well. Look at series 5; classic.
He just doesn't give enough time to individual scripts.
50th spoilers/the next Doctor
[sp]Ben Daniels has already filmed his scenes for the 50th. He is the Twelfth Doctor[/sp]
You have no idea how badly I want to believe that.
Finale spoilers (from press preview tapes, nothing reliable has come from the "leak")
[sp]The Doctor goes to steal a TARDIS. Clara tells him not to steal the latest model but instead a bashed up older model. It may be less reliable but more fun[/sp]
Apparently this sequence looks amazing and fans are gonna be shocked when they see what they've done with CGI. Most the budget has gone into this episode. When it comes to cameos you won't believe your eyes. Specially that above one which is a beauty to behold. Looks like [sp]Hartnell is alive again[/sp]
[sp]Clara speaks to Five in The Matrix, she bangs on the Seventh Doctors TARDIS doors in Dragonfire, Six is in The TARDIS with her, Three drives past her and catches her in the mirror[/sp]
How fun.
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40651565]50th spoilers/the next Doctor
[sp]Ben Daniels has already filmed his scenes for the 50th. He is the Twelfth Doctor[/sp]
You have no idea how badly I want to believe that.
Finale spoilers (from press preview tapes, nothing reliable has come from the "leak")
[sp]The Doctor goes to steal a TARDIS. Clara tells him not to steal the latest model but instead a bashed up older model. It may be less reliable but more fun[/sp]
Apparently this sequence looks amazing and fans are gonna be shocked when they see what they've done with CGI. Most the budget has gone into this episode. When it comes to cameos you won't believe your eyes. Specially that above one which is a beauty to behold. Looks like [sp]Hartnell is alive again[/sp]
[sp]Clara speaks to Five in The Matrix, she bangs on the Seventh Doctors TARDIS doors in Dragonfire, Six is in The TARDIS with her, Three drives past her and catches her in the mirror[/sp]
How fun.[/QUOTE]
So wait, [sp]how come the other two times we've seen her, she hasn't known the Doctor? Was she just pretending not to know, or do the fragments of her genuinely not recognise him?[/sp]
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;40651585]So wait, [sp]how come the other two times we've seen her, she hasn't known the Doctor? Was she just pretending not to know, or do the fragments of her genuinely not recognise him?[/sp][/QUOTE]
When she [sp]splinters herself across time it recreates her at different points in his timeline. They don't hold her memories. Every single one is an individual where Clara was the blueprint.
However the prequel suggests after she does this, she has the memories of all the other Clara's.[/sp]
I don't like the idea that [sp]some character I don't care about is responsible for basically the whole Doctor Who canon.[/sp]
Stop saying amazing things with spoilers next to them!
3 days hgng.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;40651614]I don't like the idea that [sp]some character I don't care about is responsible for basically the whole Doctor Who canon.[/sp][/QUOTE]
I totally disagree.
Well here's a 50th spoiler you won't like either. Apparently [sp]John Hurt Doctor tells William Hartnell Doctor that Gallifrey will die and he will be responsible. So he runs from Gallifrey[/sp]
So is it BD or JH????
God damn it I stop coming to this thread to stop spoilers and I can't help myself when I do visit.
[QUOTE=Kendra;40652254]So is it BD or JH????[/QUOTE]
[sp]John Hurt is the real Ninth Doctor, forgotten about by subsequent incarnations most likely due to his role in the time war. This makes Chris the Tenth Doctor, David the Eleventh and Matt the Twelfth. Ben Daniels seems to have been cast as the next incarnation, making him the Thirteenth Doctor.[/sp]
I've managed to bypass all these spoilers. Proud of myself :v:
Over 950,000 iPlayer requests for The Bells of Saint John in 24 hours. Will know the final figure when the April results are released.
[QUOTE=BBC]"This wasn't a fight between Star Wars fans and Doctor Who fans with lightsabres and sonic screwdrivers drawn," he said.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22542222[/url]
Seems like not much happened, but quite liked the quote.
[QUOTE=Cabbalistic;40653696][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22542222[/url]
Seems like not much happened, but quite liked the quote.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Mr Poole said two other members of his club, one dressed as the 10th doctor and the other as Judge Dredd, had waited outside the venue.[/quote]
The fight of the century.
All I can keep thinking about this leak:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnxZYm0CXSM[/media]
A guy who knows "the husband of a companion appearing in the 50th" say he's been told a ton of details about the 50th.
- Regarding past Doctors: [sp]all actors have recorded something for it. They don't have the same prominence as Matt and David but they ALL appear, even if only briefly. Arhive and sound will be used to make 1-3 appear, a bit like The Name of The Doctor. By "ALL" I mean Chris also. They are all involved 100%[/sp]
- Also one more thing [sp]only one companion from the classic series is returning[/sp]
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40655523]
- Also one more thing [sp]only one companion from the classic series is returning[/sp][/QUOTE]
Seeing as I already suspected what this one was about... :v:
[sp]Wasn't Louise Jameson told to keep the days free? Though it would be an odd choice. I want William Russell D= Fits with Coal Hill. [/sp]
Also finale theory of the week [sp]Clara is actually becoming companions from the past. At the end of the episode she has memories of being all the different companions for a brief moment.
She has a memory of one Doctor calling her "Sarah". The Doctor tells her about Sarah Jane. Clara then glummly informs The Doctor that while she was in Sarahs body, she died. The Doctor cries[/sp]
First I've heard of this. Doesn't sound likely. Sounds like fan wank. But if it's true, hey I'll cry.
[editline]15th May 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Grizz;40655556]Seeing as I already suspected what this one was about... :v:
[sp]Wasn't Louise Jameson told to keep the days free? Though it would be an odd choice. I want William Russell D= Fits with Coal Hill. [/sp][/QUOTE]
You are awful at keeping away from spoilers!
[sp]She hinted at that. A very random choice, an actress better remembered for her costume than her character. Doubt it will be William Russel. Hoping for Carol Anne Ford with a regeneration.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40655600]You are awful at keeping away from spoilers!
[/QUOTE]
More like, [i]very[/i] old news - if true.
Thankfully I'm not as adverse about casting as I am to plot. [sp]I want to be assured that former Doctors have been involved in new stuff. Though this would throw a spanner in the old "MATT AND MOFFAT DON'T TALK BECAUSE CLASSIC DOCTORS WEREN'T INVOLVED[/sp]
[QUOTE=Dan2593;40655600]Also finale theory of the week [sp]Clara is actually becoming companions from the past. At the end of the episode she has memories of being all the different companions for a brief moment.
She has a memory of one Doctor calling her "Sarah". The Doctor tells her about Sarah Jane. Clara then glummly informs The Doctor that while she was in Sarahs body, she died. The Doctor cries[/sp]
First I've heard of this. Doesn't sound likely. Sounds like fan wank. But if it's true, hey I'll cry.[/QUOTE]
i'd cry too because doctor who would be ruined forever
Can one of you inside-info-havers tell me if Barrowman was lying about not being involved? pls respond
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