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 From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 
  
 In article , 
 greenyammo   wrote: 
 >L. Ross Raszewski wrote: 
 >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:27:34 GMT, greenyammo 
 >>  wrote: 
 >> 
 >>>The Doctor wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>>In article , 
 >>>>Slitheen  wrote: 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>>>"The Doctor"  wrote in message 
 >>>>>news:d94l7n$sqg$21@gallifrey.nk.ca... 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>>>In article , 
 >>>>>>Jeremiah Harbottle  wrote: 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>>Apprentice, Big Brother and American Idol.  Here in the UK it's soaps 
 >>>>>>>>which 
 >>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>Now that'd be a good sight: 
 >>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>AMS: "RTD, You're fired." 
 >>>>>>> 
 >>>>>>> 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>>Who gets his job? 
 >>>>>>-- 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>>His job aint on offer. A few moaning minnies who can't spot good sci-fi 
 TV 
 >>>>>when they see it aren't going to push him out of a well deserved, well 
 >>>>>performed job. :) 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>>RTD could be an ego threat to the show if one is not careful. 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>I agree. He's already said that he's only going off-world twice in the 
 >>>new series because staying on planet earth "works". This is lazy, just 
 >>>because something works it doesn't mean you stick with it. The series 
 >>>could run it's self into the ground if he sits on his laurels. 
 >>>RTD scripts always tend to draw out sequences rather than pack the 
 >>>episodes with invention and plot. An example: in the final episode  he 
 >>>spent a very long section of the story devoted to getting that panel 
 >>>pulled off the Tardis when Rose could have just walked in and opened it 
 >>>after her "eureka" moment. There was no time limit to this so there was 
 >>>no reason to hurry, the sequence wasn't exciting or funny...but.. there 
 >>>was a spaceship FULL of thousand's of Dalek's over in the other story. 
 >>> 
 >>>What would you rather be watching? 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> Hm...  A big CGI Dalek armada shooting things, or the resolution to 
 >> Jackie and Mickey's character arcs, culminating in Rose's revelation 
 >> to her mother about her dad and Jackie's final decision to help Rose 
 >> even though it means losing her, in all likelihood forever?  Hm... 
 >> 
 >> Mindless action sequence...  Character building and growth... This is 
 >> a tough one... 
 > 
 > 
 >Doesn't have to be mindless does it though does it? Is anybody out there 
 >actually interested in Mickey and Rose's mum? Is that why we tune in 
 >every week? Eastenders does this sort of thing on a far superior level. 
 > 
 >It wasn't the character work or story arc I was complaining about. It 
 >was the method and delivery of those plot strands and the length RTD 
 >takes to draw these scenes out. These scenes could have been dealt with 
 >in another manner entirely and still made room for more sci-fi. 
 >Let's not go overboard either, RTD writing is not Shakespeare. Trying to 
 >wring emotional scenes out of cardboard characters is not necessarily a 
 >good thing. 
 > 
 > 
  
 Still keeping DW to a Doylian quality will help. 
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