"and if you can't say something nice you shouldn't say anything at all." Wrong! Wrong wrong wrong. (See? You're *always* wrong about something... =;o} )
Your critiques of the new series have always been thoughtful and well expressed. That's a *lot* different from being a knee-kerk flamer (with the emphasis on jerk), as (predicatbly) many of the "old guard" are being.
And I hereby implore you to email everything you've said above directly to DWM, at this address: dwm@panini.co.uk
If they publish it in the mag, they'll probably edit it down to a few choice phrases, but the thing is RTD and co. *do* pay attention to feedback, and feedback like the above is much more likely to be taken seriously than the kind of rantings that he *knew* he was going to get whatever he did, and sure enough, is getting.
The new show isn't perfect. We can be glad it's back, and still give useful feedback on the things we think are mistakes. The above is a viewpoint I haven't seem expressed anywhere else, and for prescisely that reason it needs to be heard.
Things that might encourage you: There is a strong concensus emerging that RTD's own scripts are the least succesful of the season. That fact *will* be picked up on by the production team, guaranteed. How they respond will depend on how they interpret the criticism. If all they get is 97 sackloads of "RTD sucks!" that will lead them to a different conclusion than if they get a healthy number of "I like this, this and this, but I feel that that and *that* were mistakes."
I'd be happy to see RTD's responsibilities redefined so that he's still Executive Producer but not handling so much of the writing. He's trying to be Bob Holmes at the moment - an admirable role model, for sure, but he isn't quite pulling it off. Or, he may step down completely after the 2nd year and move on to other projects, probably just coming back to provide the odd script now and then.
And we've got a new Doctor coming up. A change of personality, and a golden chance to apply whatever lessons the producers have learned from the first season without it begin a glaring continuity error. (And bear in mind, unlike previous seasons, there's been *no* opportunity to stear the writing of the later stories based on feedback from the early ones. The whole season had to be scripted and nearly all of it in the can before the first ep. was broadcast.
Also: Many of the new fans brought in by the new show are investigating the old show, and are asking about things like "why is it such a big deal that the new Doctor does (X) in stead of (Y)?". And that's a chance for us oldies to say what we loved about the old show and why we're sometimes a bit uncomfortable (or in your case very uncomfortable) about the new; and sometimes they grok it; and then *they'll* be joining in the discussions saying "I think that was a good idea, we should go back to doing it that way."
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Date: 2005-06-02 01:27 pm (UTC)Wrong! Wrong wrong wrong. (See? You're *always* wrong about something... =;o} )
Your critiques of the new series have always been thoughtful and well expressed. That's a *lot* different from being a knee-kerk flamer (with the emphasis on jerk), as (predicatbly) many of the "old guard" are being.
And I hereby implore you to email everything you've said above directly to DWM, at this address: dwm@panini.co.uk
If they publish it in the mag, they'll probably edit it down to a few choice phrases, but the thing is RTD and co. *do* pay attention to feedback, and feedback like the above is much more likely to be taken seriously than the kind of rantings that he *knew* he was going to get whatever he did, and sure enough, is getting.
The new show isn't perfect. We can be glad it's back, and still give useful feedback on the things we think are mistakes. The above is a viewpoint I haven't seem expressed anywhere else, and for prescisely that reason it needs to be heard.
Things that might encourage you: There is a strong concensus emerging that RTD's own scripts are the least succesful of the season. That fact *will* be picked up on by the production team, guaranteed. How they respond will depend on how they interpret the criticism. If all they get is 97 sackloads of "RTD sucks!" that will lead them to a different conclusion than if they get a healthy number of "I like this, this and this, but I feel that that and *that* were mistakes."
I'd be happy to see RTD's responsibilities redefined so that he's still Executive Producer but not handling so much of the writing. He's trying to be Bob Holmes at the moment - an admirable role model, for sure, but he isn't quite pulling it off. Or, he may step down completely after the 2nd year and move on to other projects, probably just coming back to provide the odd script now and then.
And we've got a new Doctor coming up. A change of personality, and a golden chance to apply whatever lessons the producers have learned from the first season without it begin a glaring continuity error. (And bear in mind, unlike previous seasons, there's been *no* opportunity to stear the writing of the later stories based on feedback from the early ones. The whole season had to be scripted and nearly all of it in the can before the first ep. was broadcast.
Also: Many of the new fans brought in by the new show are investigating the old show, and are asking about things like "why is it such a big deal that the new Doctor does (X) in stead of (Y)?". And that's a chance for us oldies to say what we loved about the old show and why we're sometimes a bit uncomfortable (or in your case very uncomfortable) about the new; and sometimes they grok it; and then *they'll* be joining in the discussions saying "I think that was a good idea, we should go back to doing it that way."
[BIG HUG]