‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Steven Moffat is challenging the paradigms of TV formats (or is he?)
Is Moffat just a lazy writer who reuses the same motifs again and again, or is there a genius to his repetition?
Is Moffat just a lazy writer who reuses the same motifs again and again, or is there a genius to his repetition?
Not only should I not worry about how Torchwood: Miracle Day copes with Captain Jack’s sexuality, showrunner Russell T. Davies believes American TV has teh gay better than British TV…
Have Kleenex ready. Seriously.
Finally! There’s flirting! Serious, honest, proper flirting between the Doctor and River…
In case you haven’t already heard: Elisabeth Sladen, aka Sarah Jane Smith of Doctor Who and her own eponymous spinoff, The Sarah Jane Adventures, died this morning. She was 63 and had been ill with cancer…
That’s how the universe ends, when fandom implodes in on the object of its worship.
Were you worried that a half-American Torchwood was going to mean severing the series from its British roots… and more importantly, from its Doctor Who roots? Russell T. Davies says we needn’t worry…
Oh noes! Or maybe not oh-noes. Maybe giving the series over to another showrunner would be a good thing, would keep the show from getting stale.
The ten-part arc is now called “Miracle Day”… but the miracle is of a dark sort…
Doctor Who has been doing amazing things with TV since 2005, but this may be the best example yet of how gonzo and how simultaneously emotionally satisfying TV can be these days.