Bingowings said:Nanner Split said:skyjedi2005 said:The newer doctor whos are some of the best new science fiction that has been on television. Amazingly well written and casted, well most of the time anyway.
Well, pretty much all the ones that Russell T. Davies DIDN'T write were awesome. :P
I have to agree with you there Tooth And Claw, Turn Left and Midnight were great and the recent Torchwood thing was good too even if it was largely pinched off The Space Traders and The Quatermass Conclusion.
He does write nice little character moments but give him anything that requires Science Fiction ideas or an epic finale and he gets lost, most of those stories seem to based on playing early platform games, only Russell can take a joke from Galaxy Quest and take it seriously.
I've seen comments exactly the same as this over on the Doctor Who boards, constantly slating RTD's writing, saying anything he writes is crap and how great Tooth and claw, Midnight and Torchwood:children of earth was and that he should take note of how to write good episodes like that. Well he was the one that wrote them. No one ever seems to mention the crappy episodes that were written by someone else though like Fear Her, The lazarus experiment &The idiots lantern for example which were some of the worse episodes of the new era.
Lets not forget this is the guy who brought Doctor Who back to what it once was: one of the vary rare programs that the whole family enjoys, just like it was in the 60's & 70's. That is unheard of nowadays. Just look back at the original Doctor who episodes. many were complete crap and then Doctor who became a joke amongst all but the hardened fans. It became complete garbage and thankfully died. I grew up with Doctor who and loved the Pertwee/ Baker era. New Who is as good now as it was at its height originally.
RTD is a good writer. Just take a look at Second Coming. That was a great drama and had a great ending. One of the best and completely different dramas that had been on TV in a very long time
Can you imagine if the BBC had gone down a different route and hired one of its usual in house writers to bring back DW? One of the writers of eastenders? Just how crap would that have been? And the acting is miles better than it has ever been in Doctor Who (not counting most of the Doctors of course)
Now that rant is over. lol
Another little titbit thats popped up form the on set photos is that Alex Kingston has now been confirmed to be back as River Song with Matt Smiths Doctor and that Karen Gillan's character, Amy Pond, is to have a scottish accent.