Comments on: TV: The Crank File – Dr, No! http://thedailyscoundrel.com/2009/12/08/tv-the-crank-file-dr-no/ Film, games, music and the rest. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:59:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: r4i http://thedailyscoundrel.com/2009/12/08/tv-the-crank-file-dr-no/comment-page-1/#comment-5184 r4i Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:55:34 +0000 http://thedailyscoundrel.com/?p=724#comment-5184 Great article! There are so many people talking about this subject and yet I only have a handful of ‘go-to’ guys whose blog posts make me take notes! (Yes you’re one of them!).Thanks for a great post.It is rather interesting for me to read that post. Thank author for it. I like such themes and everything connected to them. I definitely want to read more soon. Great article! There are so many people talking about this subject and yet I only have a handful of ‘go-to’ guys whose blog posts make me take notes! (Yes you’re one of them!).Thanks for a great post.It is rather interesting for me to read that post. Thank author for it. I like such themes and everything connected to them. I definitely want to read more soon.

]]> By: Paul http://thedailyscoundrel.com/2009/12/08/tv-the-crank-file-dr-no/comment-page-1/#comment-4690 Paul Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:57:07 +0000 http://thedailyscoundrel.com/?p=724#comment-4690 *And I should mention that each week is a completely different writer (and the showrunner, who is on is way out, couldn't write his way out of a paper bag and penned the episode you rightly tear apart). When there is minimal connections between episodes, the writers clearly have nearly free reign to do what they want (which can very bad or rather good). Also, watch Blink. *And I should mention that each week is a completely different writer (and the showrunner, who is on is way out, couldn’t write his way out of a paper bag and penned the episode you rightly tear apart). When there is minimal connections between episodes, the writers clearly have nearly free reign to do what they want (which can very bad or rather good).

Also, watch Blink.

]]> By: Paul http://thedailyscoundrel.com/2009/12/08/tv-the-crank-file-dr-no/comment-page-1/#comment-4688 Paul Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:51:56 +0000 http://thedailyscoundrel.com/?p=724#comment-4688 You do have to sense of light heartedness and fun though, it's not the Wire. And I should mention that each week is a completely different writer, and when there's very minimal overall arcs these means they pretty have free reign to what they want (which can very bad or rather good). Also, watch Blink. You do have to sense of light heartedness and fun though, it’s not the Wire.

And I should mention that each week is a completely different writer, and when there’s very minimal overall arcs these means they pretty have free reign to what they want (which can very bad or rather good). Also, watch Blink.

]]> By: Paul http://thedailyscoundrel.com/2009/12/08/tv-the-crank-file-dr-no/comment-page-1/#comment-4687 Paul Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:40:14 +0000 http://thedailyscoundrel.com/?p=724#comment-4687 It's really not fair to judge by one atrocious episode. The fact is the show is astonishingly different (tonally, in cast, in setting, in demographic) week to week. The fact is there is usually only 4/5 quality episodes in a 13 ep season (at least until Moffat's reboot next year), but those are so brilliant it's really worth it. You should try, you know, an episode that isn't utter shite, like Paul Cornell's 'Human Nature' two parter which solves a lot of your superman problems with the Doctor. David Tennant plays an ordinary boarding school teacher (with one heart beat, and strange dreams) at the turn of the century. Only a maid, his real companion, knows who he really is and why he's hiding. And definitely look out for any of Stephen Moffat's episodes too, easily the highlight of each season. Blink starring the up and coming Carey Mulligan (she was amazing this year in An Education), is a remarkable episode that features very little Doctor (but something that wouldn't be possible in any other series). In fact usually the dramatic tension usually isn't supposed to come from the Doctor surviving (tbf, the regeneration aspect rarely comes up in the show), if it's not from his companion or the other characters, then it's from a dilemma he has to grapple with himself (the last episode and surprisingly great, The Waters of Mars, is an example of this). It’s really not fair to judge by one atrocious episode. The fact is the show is astonishingly different (tonally, in cast, in setting, in demographic) week to week. The fact is there is usually only 4/5 quality episodes in a 13 ep season (at least until Moffat’s reboot next year), but those are so brilliant it’s really worth it.

You should try, you know, an episode that isn’t utter shite, like Paul Cornell’s ‘Human Nature’ two parter which solves a lot of your superman problems with the Doctor. David Tennant plays an ordinary boarding school teacher (with one heart beat, and strange dreams) at the turn of the century. Only a maid, his real companion, knows who he really is and why he’s hiding. And definitely look out for any of Stephen Moffat’s episodes too, easily the highlight of each season. Blink starring the up and coming Carey Mulligan (she was amazing this year in An Education), is a remarkable episode that features very little Doctor (but something that wouldn’t be possible in any other series).

In fact usually the dramatic tension usually isn’t supposed to come from the Doctor surviving (tbf, the regeneration aspect rarely comes up in the show), if it’s not from his companion or the other characters, then it’s from a dilemma he has to grapple with himself (the last episode and surprisingly great, The Waters of Mars, is an example of this).

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