Comments on: Doctor Who and Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

By: Hal

Hal — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:38:24 +0000

Ow! Don’t say that… The Star Wars analogy is…interesting. The original Star Wars is still very good (pointless tinkering aside – and I’m not going to call it Episode IV, Lucas!), The Empire Strikes Back is more mature and perhaps even better, Jedi has some fantastic effects and memorable scenes but an unsatisfactory story (and the Darth Daddy plotline turns inevitably into schmaltz, it’s not as if killing the Emperor to save his son absolves him of murdering and helping to oppress all those other people, Georgie!) while the prequels are utterly wrong-headed (so Star Wars was the story of the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Anakin Skywalker was it Mr L? Tell it to your 1977 and 1980 selves! Ha!), pretty poorly written, and garish. Yep, you summed it up, SJV… Lucas and Moffat have a few things in common, such as not being able to leave well enough alone cf. River Song, Amy and Rory, Doctor Who?!

By: sjv

sjv — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:02:25 +0000

One more bit if random insight…

Remember how many people loved Star Wars?

Then how many people thought Empire Strikes Back was even better?

Then how Return of the Jedi drew ire and complaints about things like the Ewoks and people thought Lucas was off his rocker?

And people wanted Lucas to continue the series… and we got Phantom Menace and people hated Jar Jar and Anakin?

And Attack of the Clones was better but still left people wanting?

And Revenge of the Sith was the best of the new ones, but still not quite as the best of the old ones?

Maybe one day we will be lamenting how the next release of Doctor Who Series 5-7 are released on uber-Pink-Ray disc with new enhancements and scenes so that Moffat can do the “story as it was meant to be”

By: sjv

sjv — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:59:17 +0000

Once you P.O.P. you can’t stop…

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:33:26 +0000

Must we call you Lord Daily P.O.P., now?! I watched Androids of Tara a few nights ago, that’s actually a really enjoyable story? Tom Baker, lovely Lois Baxter, Peter Jeffrey, and marvellous Mary Tamm are all on fine form and the supporting cast (including Cyril Shaps and Declan “The Man Who Would Be Jabba” Mulholland) aren’t half-bad, either. I caught up on your review too – and left one of my usual rambling comments, you know, like this one! – good work, mon compadre.

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:20:29 +0000

P.O.P. Girls? What else do they do for you?! And what is the Tennant problem? Is it the Neil Tennant problem? Oh, *David*… The problem there was that he became *Crap*! Ahahaha! Naughty, naughty…

By: dailypop

dailypop — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:27:48 +0000

I’m honestly happy that your kids enjoyed it. Good on ye. What are their thoughts on Ghost Light?

By: dailypop

dailypop — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:26:43 +0000

I have assistants for that now. P.O.P. Girls? Get on that Tennant problem! chop! chop!

By: sjv

sjv — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:20:51 +0000

Yeah… we’ll be fine. Unlike Mr Moffat… if you disagree with Jameson on something, he doesn’t call you an idiot and he respects your difference of opinion

By: Hal

Hal — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:27:33 +0000

Agreed. Although a lot of adults swear by new Who and won’t hear a thing said about Moffat or his work… Bah!
Do you think that now Jameson is to be a *published author* he’ll still speak to us, the Little People?! Wait aminute, “little people”? Munchkins? That brings us back to the Great and Powerful Moff!

By: sjv

sjv — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:37:14 +0000

I should also have said… our now soon to be published and famous Jameson nailed it with one particular part of his review… noting that the old show was a show for kids that had stuff for adults too. Not entirely the same, but similar in concept to the good old Looney Tunes cartoons… kids enjoyed the colors and slapstick and fast action, and adults enjoyed the smart topical subtext in the humor.

So… new Doctor Who is actually nailing the appeal to kids part. Really, I can imagine kids really loving new Doctor Who… but where they are failing is at the parts that are supposed to appeal to the adult viewer. That’s when you get a peek behind the curtain… and then Moffat says “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”… “I am the great and powerful Moff” and so forth.