Tobar said:
Jury is out on Chibnall for me. His Who episodes weren’t amazing nor were they offensive. He apparently set the tone for Torchwood and seeing as I actively despise that series, that’s a definite knock. BUT, he also wrote this scene. So it’s a real toss up for me.
Yeah I could never get into Torchwood. The sole reason anyone has ever given me that they like it is that it has lots of sex in it, okay but does that really make it a good show on it’s own??? It’ just a cross between Doctor who and the X-Files, and that is really it. It’s not as good as either show on it’s own, so I really have no interest in it. i tried watching it but couldn’t get through the first season.
It seems like the show just keeps getting passed down through the same writers who started under RTD and each one is just getting their turn as producer so we are not having any of the big shake ups or changes that the classic series had. I mean in the classic series I think by this point the show had had five producers and seven script editors and each of them changed things a bit, the new series has started to feel the same. I mean it is always the same, we have a plot arc throughout the season and then the season ends with a big epic battle with a classic monster. Now the stories are starting to all feel the same too so I have quite frankly given up on the new series ever doing anything new. That is why I think the BBC is trying to kill the show, this should have been used as a chance to bring in a fresh producer who had nothing to do with the past of the show and would have brought in new writers so things would get shaken up a bit. Instead we seem to be waiting an extra year just to get the same old same old when the show does come back.
Unless they announce something along the lines of not relying on classic monsters any more and not going back to earth for a while this news leaves me unimpressed. I don’t think this choice of producer is going to help the show much at all. Unless he is a much better producer then he is a writer that is.
Sorry to be so negative. At least I have plenty of Big Finish audios to listen to while the show it’s self is in a slump.