Comments on: Doctor Who Series 7 Trailer

By: sjv

sjv — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:23:28 +0000

I think I have figured it out…

Moffat’s Doctor Who works like his Weeping Angels.

When you look at it, it stops dead in its tracks… the plot doesn’t advance and nothing interesting happens… but when you look away, it appears to move faster

By: Hal

Hal — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:32:28 +0000

@sjv and @roscoe, how right you are! The praise for Moffat is baffling, he’s been responsible for some good material (Press Gang is still his best) but nothing *great*, he had a few ideas for Doctor Who – not all good, by any means – and he’s revisited them ad infinitum, ad nauseum yet people fall weeping at his feet as he’s the messiah. As for the out-of-control praise for Sherlock now that’s pathetic, I find myself wondering if people have seen *anything* else or if the world’s just gone Mad(der) when they praise something that’s, at best, ok. As for Matt Smith, eh he’s all right but the best actor to’ve played the role? Um. No. No more than Cumberbatch is the best actor to play Holmes, now *that’s* ridiculous. Ooh, Bitchy!

By: Roscoe

Roscoe — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:21:03 +0000

I’ve given up hoping for the series to get good. Moffat is trying his best to turn the doctor into an action hero. You can see this in the poster they have of matt smith holding the (hopefully) deceased amy pond. The Daleks are made to look like a joke with smith being surrounded by millions as they stand there and watch the doctor talk trash (as seen in the trailer). I can only hope that the master makes an appearance sometime this season.

By: sjv

sjv — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 03:20:09 +0000

Aside from the obligatory “it has to be better, since it couldn’t be worse”… I’m seeing the cult of Moffat out in spades already. Any hint of negativity gets you smacked down in forums as a “non-believer”… people “trust” Moffat because he wouldn’t do things unless they were good.

For clarity… I’m a Joss Whedon fan.. I liked Buffy, liked Angel, passed on Firefly until it was canceled but then found and loved it later… also liked Dollhouse and want to see his Cabin in the Woods movie. BUT… even critics of Joss Whedon aren’t smacked down with “heretic!” shouts like critics of Moffat… and I honestly can’t point to all the greatness that has earned Mr Moffat such reverence.

I hate to say it… but that level of cultism actually spins me the other way… and I like Doctor Who, I want it to succeed… and I’ve gone on record as not only liking Matt Smith but saying he might be the best actor to ever be in the role. Note that I’m not saying his Doctor is necessarily better than, say, Tom Baker… but I am saying that Matt Smith just might be a better actor. I say this because he is good AND because he is often good very much in spite of the script handed to him. Matt Smith has consistently lifted episodes above what the plot warrants me thinking of the episode… but it’s hard not to notice the cracks.

It’s funny… Moffat’s first series as showrunner had the running cracks-in-space theme… and I found it oddly mirroring cracks-in-the-story as things unfolded.

But I am hoping for better… and story complaints aside, I hope Matt Smith sticks around for a while.