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 From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 
  
 In article , 
 Stephen Wilson  wrote: 
 > 
 >"The Doctor"  wrote in message 
 >news:d96ir7$bar$17@gallifrey.nk.ca... 
 >> In article , 
 >> greenyammo   wrote: 
 >>>L. Ross Raszewski wrote: 
 >>>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:27:34 GMT, greenyammo 
 >>>>  wrote: 
 >>>> 
 >>>>>The Doctor wrote: 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>>>In article , 
 >>>>>>Slitheen  wrote: 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>>>"The Doctor"  wrote in message 
 >>>>>>>news:d94l7n$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. 
 > 
 >What's a Doylian quality, what will it help and how? 
 > 
 > 
  
 Doyle, as in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 
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