I thought it was fun, and probably about as good as you can get when (a) you allow a nine-year-old kid creative input (I shudder to think what rubbish I was churning out at that age...well, and now, come to that) and (b) you have decided, presumably for good and sufficient reason, to make three episodes back-to-back. As swipes at fandom go, it was gentler than most.
Interesting that Billie Piper is leaving, if indeed she is (I haven't checked recently, but she's been leaving several times before, and as far as anything I've read hitherto was concerned, she was in for the long haul). Especially as they've built Rose up as the great love of the Doctor's life, and gone to great pains to establish all the domestic stuff and anchor the show and so on and so fifth. I can't see them starting again with all that (at least I hope not) so maybe the next series will be less "anchored" and more like it used to be.
BBC says yes. Bye bye Jackie and the Powell Estate. Not before time.
I'm reminded once again of Antony Sher's "Year of the King," in which he describes his initial approach to playing Richard III in the shadow of Olivier, how he resolved firmly not to do any of the things Olivier had done (not to make him funny, not to make him sexy, etc) and found himself gradually incorporating more and more of those elements into his own, still very different, performance. Doctor Who must have a huge inertial mass: it does rather seem to be swinging back to its own norm in certain respects. Which, to me, is no bad thing.
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Interesting that Billie Piper is leaving, if indeed she is (I haven't checked recently, but she's been leaving several times before, and as far as anything I've read hitherto was concerned, she was in for the long haul). Especially as they've built Rose up as the great love of the Doctor's life, and gone to great pains to establish all the domestic stuff and anchor the show and so on and so fifth. I can't see them starting again with all that (at least I hope not) so maybe the next series will be less "anchored" and more like it used to be.
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I'm reminded once again of Antony Sher's "Year of the King," in which he describes his initial approach to playing Richard III in the shadow of Olivier, how he resolved firmly not to do any of the things Olivier had done (not to make him funny, not to make him sexy, etc) and found himself gradually incorporating more and more of those elements into his own, still very different, performance. Doctor Who must have a huge inertial mass: it does rather seem to be swinging back to its own norm in certain respects. Which, to me, is no bad thing.