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Reply Subj: Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Daughter" Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 at 01:15:26 pm EDT (Viewed 363 times) | |||||||||
I think it's clear that this season at last that the creators of the new Doctor Who have had the courage to loose their inner fanboys, dragging the series closer to the original than they'd ever have dared during the edgy Ecclestone days. I'm not saying this is neccessarily a good or a bad thing, but it's clear that Dr Who is embracing it's 45-year heritage more than ever. Try to find any interview with anyone associated with the production team where the word "iconic" isn't used. This fanboy approach had never been more obvious than in the newly-released commentary podcast for "Forest of the Dead", wherein Tennant, Davies, and Stephen Moffett abandon all pretense to commenting on the story they're watching and instead engage in a glorious high-banter geekfest. Moffett to Tennant: List your favourite episodes in a manner that will allow you to leave this room. Tennant: It does feel as if I'm sitting in this room with two Presidents of the High Council of Gallifrey. Who's Borusa and who's Flavia? Davis: I'm Flavia. Moffatt: There's lots of Borusas. We could all be Borusas. [Conversation on which was the best Borusa actor] Davis to Moffatt: So will you be bringing back the Nimon? Moffatt: I think Sontaran/Rutans okay but the Nimon/Bandrill war is where it... Tennant: I want to see the Voord again. [And so on]
I think it was important that we saw the Hath from another viewpoint. That way the audience was pulling for a peaceful end to the conflict, not for a human victory over horrible aliens.
I wonder if Martha's being set up for Torchwood series 3.
I didn't pick up the sexual subtexts you did so that wasn't such a problem for me. I thought Moffett's choices were quite good given the material she was presented with.
The series seems to deliberately present a succession of such "identifier/wish fulfillment" characters. That's one of the key functions of the companion, one of the fundamental components of the series. It's not a series to shy away from Mary Sues. And then there's River Song.
It's an interesting addition to the mythos, but one with a huge potential for disaster as well as for interesting stories. I suspect any Tennant relationship with the actress might in fact mitigate against her return rather than then opposite.
Again, I didn't pick that up at all. | |||||||||
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