Yes - but -

[faustus]

Neil Gaiman in his blog: "The problem Dr Who always used to have was never a failure of imagination or a failure of script. It was a failure of obviously being a man in an unconvincing costume hiding behind some wobbly scenery."

Can we have the successful imagination back now? Or are we stuck with rewriting the phenotype instantly by changing the genotype every second episode?

Comments

[dalmeny]

I dunno, I've been watching (and re-watching) a fair bit of the old Dr Who and it seemed to me that it did frequently suffer from failures of script and, not quite as often, imagination.

I don't think the new series is in general lacking in imagination, although some elements of the season finales are repetitive, it's that it so often drowns in sentimentality.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I am of course twenty years older than the original series viewings (although I watched some Pertwee before the revival), but I didn't get the feeling of the in-one-bound ending from the multi-parters. More sustained re-viewing may reveal the necessary padding. Too many episodes with rewriting DNA - but the multi-parted adventures at least spread out the incidents.


I'm not convinced that most of the writers on New Who can do the 42 minutes span - set up world, cause crisis, do soap stuff, save the cheerleader save the world. Whedon's writers on Firefly seem to be able to play with nine major characters, do as much world building and not leave me with the all over too easily stuff.