![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Mad Larry
I don't really know much about Lawrence Miles, and just as I was about to sit down and actually read his blog which I skip-read yesterday, HIS ENTIRE BEING SEEMS TO HAVE DISAPPEARED OFF THE FACE OF THE INTERNETS.
This makes me sad because I wanted to read his Space Library script. Anyone saved it???
Anyway, like I said his blog was a bit tl;dr, but I seem to remember the gist being that Steven Moffat made Larry an alcoholic, the Whovian powers that be point and laugh at Larry a lot and Neil Gaiman, who got namechecked for NO APPARENT REASON is, according to Larry "a stinking parasite who'll sink to any depths in his quest to make goth-girls cop off with him". Yah, I managed to save that quote for slanderous luls. And Moffat has some sort of sekrit evol Scottish powers or something.
What I DO remember, and it's something I've read elsewhere as well, is Larry's critique of Silence in the Library, which seemed to boil down to "OMG he puts a kid in to appeal to the kiddies and he puts in innuendo to appeal to the adults and he puts in geekspeak to appeal to the nerds, HOW FUCKING WRONG AND EVIL IS THAT???"
Seriously, though, what the FUCK is wrong with that? I see Moffat getting slated a lot for appealing to a wide audience, and I just don't get it. Moffat is clever enough to write in a way that appeals to damn near everybody. Fuck, man, did I miss a meeting somewhere, surely that's FUCKING GREAT. Isn't it?
ETA: Oh, he's back. Must have just been the silly conspiracy theorist in me thinking Gaiman had him offed or something.
This makes me sad because I wanted to read his Space Library script. Anyone saved it???
Anyway, like I said his blog was a bit tl;dr, but I seem to remember the gist being that Steven Moffat made Larry an alcoholic, the Whovian powers that be point and laugh at Larry a lot and Neil Gaiman, who got namechecked for NO APPARENT REASON is, according to Larry "a stinking parasite who'll sink to any depths in his quest to make goth-girls cop off with him". Yah, I managed to save that quote for slanderous luls. And Moffat has some sort of sekrit evol Scottish powers or something.
What I DO remember, and it's something I've read elsewhere as well, is Larry's critique of Silence in the Library, which seemed to boil down to "OMG he puts a kid in to appeal to the kiddies and he puts in innuendo to appeal to the adults and he puts in geekspeak to appeal to the nerds, HOW FUCKING WRONG AND EVIL IS THAT???"
Seriously, though, what the FUCK is wrong with that? I see Moffat getting slated a lot for appealing to a wide audience, and I just don't get it. Moffat is clever enough to write in a way that appeals to damn near everybody. Fuck, man, did I miss a meeting somewhere, surely that's FUCKING GREAT. Isn't it?
ETA: Oh, he's back. Must have just been the silly conspiracy theorist in me thinking Gaiman had him offed or something.
no subject
One thing I've always loved about Moffat is that he does appeal to a wide audience. I still introduce people to Doctor Who through Empty Child/Doctor dances since if nothing else it's a good scary story.
Poor Gaiman though, I kind of wonder what happened that made him write that way about him.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
seriously, though, i'm with everyone else here - mr miles is annoyed with mr moffat and mr gaiman for both being much better writers than he is. end of story.
no subject
And actually, I really hope there aren't any overarching plots anymore. Maybe it's because I'm American, but at 13 episodes, I perfectly fine with standalone episodes and the occasional two-parter for a couple of seasons. Maybe then we could get a companion that lasts for more than one season and doesn't suffer huge mental trauma.
no subject
From most people it is a bit mad, but Miles is the guy who writes stuff about how Ally McBeal and Big Brother are Time Lord culture-deadening weapons. So for him it probably is evil.
Have you managed to get the Mad Larry script? 'Cos if you want it I can email it you.
no subject