Friday 22 August 2014

sad but true Doctor Who

Please don't hyper-ventilate in anticipation of "Deep Breath", the opening installment of  "Doctor Who" series 8.  It's a little dull (in my opinion). Steven Moffat has yet to exhaust his need for lesbian titilation and deafening slaps in a script chock full of the sad one-liners we have come to expect.  It's a pity he fails (more often than not) to create characters who generate their own dialogue rather than having the dialogue bring characters into existence solely as mouthpieces for his predictable witticisms. Steven, you are not edgy, you are a childish little boy with slapstick notions of lesbians, satire, female dominatrixes, motherhood, religion ("oh,if I laugh at the church it will shock people"), a propensity to write every character the SAME...what, so the Doctor is now saying things that only Sherlock would say (?) and a talent for ripping off  movies...what so "Blink" is a simple HOMAGE to a key element  in "Back to the Future 3", is that it?
Now fans are making title sequences, so how much longer before WHO fan-fic is turned into full-blown episodes?
After the overt fan-wankery of "Sherlock" series 3 is anything to go by, not much longer I think.
The truth is, I miss the believable 3 dimensional characters of Russell's tenure...I miss feeling for them and caring.

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