Can’t believe I missed this earlier in the year. Back in June, @PaperClippe tweeted this:
George R. R. Martin, Joss Whedon, and Steven Moffat walk into a bar and everyone you've ever loved dies.
— Paperclippe (@PaperClippe) June 23, 2013
Which some unknown wag turned into this:
And then, just yesterday (which is how I finally discovered this), @PaulGCornish “fixed it”:
Heh.
(If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
Yeah, that’s one of my Moffat-problems summed up in a nutshell. Like Eighties-era X-Men, nothing is ever irrevocable, so there’s no possibility of dramatic tension. Maybe it’s just me.
not just you…
At the same time, when things are irrevocable, it feels arbitrary — like what happened to Sally’s friend, and to Amy and Rory.
Unlike real life where death always makes perfect sense…
“…but are then brought back to life by Moffat.”
Or by Marvel Studios, when there’s a popular character that needs to headline a TV show or something…
A downvote? Really? For the record, I *like* Agents of SHIELD. ;-)
Revisiting this post, I see that the downvote has disappeared. Actually, come to think of it, all the downvotes on the site have disappeared. Did you disable the “dislike” button, MaryAnn?
No. Disqus did for some reason. They sorta-kinda-not really have an explanation on their website. It is Disqus-wide.
Wasn’t me, it was Disqus. More here: https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/questions/6050471-why-was-the-downvote-count-removed-
…or Whedon.”
It’s worth noting that Joss Whedon has a bad habit of arbitrarily resurrecting dead characters as well. He’s just not called on it very much for some strange reason.
Yeah, I never thought Steven Moffat made sense as the third writer in this joke. Surely it should be someone more along the lines of Suzanne Collins, or even J. K. Rowling, who kills much-beloved characters, traumatically and always lastingly.
Potential Spoiler:
G.R.R. Martin isn’t afraid of bringing people back to life either…
Although in a considerably creepier fashion.
Anybody seen the last episode of “Press Gang”?
What about it? What’s the connection? What’s Press Gang, for that matter?
Look, look Buffy was resurrected from the dead cus of a new series…
A seal walks into a club
And now we can add Ben Elton to the list.
The next to last episode of the third season of his Upstart Crow series hit me like a punch in the stomach. It’s not often that an episode of a TV show does that nowadays.
Of course, it didn’t help that I saw it just a few days after my late sister’s birthday.