BNF and MOFFAT FOR TEH WIN
Jun. 21st, 2006 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tencrushI will use my Romana icon because it means instant BNFdom. Nos thinks I should tell everyone on LJ how I pissed off Steven Moffat onna OG.
I just said:
It struck me as really odd, listening to the commentary for Girl in the Fireplace, that Moffat just handwaved the fact that he had written the relationship between Mickey and Rose as chummy and lolleriffic because he "hadn't seen the script" for School Reunion. It's bugged me ever since. Surely it's Russell's job to tie these sorts of things up, and I'm not going to say Russell's not doing his job properly, but why have a character dynamic change so dramatically from Rose blatantly not wanting to take Mickey along to being totally fine and happy with it? It always struck me as just a little bit sloppy.
I think season 2 has suffered from this kind of sloppy character continuity quite a bit, definitely where Rose is concerned. I think Russell has dropped the ball on occasion on that level.
To which he done said:
Oh, you chaps will take any excuse to jump on the mighty Welshman's head, won't you? Well not on my watch!
It was the right decision. It was just not me that took it. We presume, as we must, that Rose chose to make the best of it, after a (very) brief initial sulk. It would, of course, be the only thing she COULD do. To behave otherwise would be far too revealing. A brief tiny moment between episodes - she shakes her head, smiles. She's incredibly fond of Mickey, what else could she credibly do?
You know, there may be many things you could say about Russell and the Doctor Who production team (of whom I'm not one, so this is neither conceit nor defensiveness) but to call them careless or sloppy is so completely unfair and untrue I can't stop myself wasting my time telling you that.
Steven Moffat
To which I said:
Moffmeister, I worhip and adore you, please don't take offence.
*flails girlily*
I was merely citing it as an example of the things that, as you say, we are meant to presume have happened between one episode and the next. And I appreciate they probably aren't worth getting into most of the time, but an occasional nod would be nice, and I think this season has lacked that occasional nod sometimes. But then, as I have dicussed at length elsewhere, the message that Stuff Happens and People And Time Lords Move On is being planted quite a bit and that I would like to think that is deliberate, it certainly makes sense to me anyway.
*does a cry*
Even Steven Moffat thinks I'm a man.
*wails*
I've just come from another message board where the last thing I typed was MOFFAT FOR TEH WIN, and look what happens.
*sob*
And that's it really. Nos thinks I am now a BNF, yes? Nos would like to bask in my glory of coaxing teh Moff out of hiding just to say what he done said there.
*hubris*
But anyway, he's not angry, really, he done sent me PM saying all was well. No money changed hands. More's the pity.
I say again: MOFFAT FOR TEH WIN!!!!
I just said:
It struck me as really odd, listening to the commentary for Girl in the Fireplace, that Moffat just handwaved the fact that he had written the relationship between Mickey and Rose as chummy and lolleriffic because he "hadn't seen the script" for School Reunion. It's bugged me ever since. Surely it's Russell's job to tie these sorts of things up, and I'm not going to say Russell's not doing his job properly, but why have a character dynamic change so dramatically from Rose blatantly not wanting to take Mickey along to being totally fine and happy with it? It always struck me as just a little bit sloppy.
I think season 2 has suffered from this kind of sloppy character continuity quite a bit, definitely where Rose is concerned. I think Russell has dropped the ball on occasion on that level.
To which he done said:
Oh, you chaps will take any excuse to jump on the mighty Welshman's head, won't you? Well not on my watch!
It was the right decision. It was just not me that took it. We presume, as we must, that Rose chose to make the best of it, after a (very) brief initial sulk. It would, of course, be the only thing she COULD do. To behave otherwise would be far too revealing. A brief tiny moment between episodes - she shakes her head, smiles. She's incredibly fond of Mickey, what else could she credibly do?
You know, there may be many things you could say about Russell and the Doctor Who production team (of whom I'm not one, so this is neither conceit nor defensiveness) but to call them careless or sloppy is so completely unfair and untrue I can't stop myself wasting my time telling you that.
Steven Moffat
To which I said:
Moffmeister, I worhip and adore you, please don't take offence.
*flails girlily*
I was merely citing it as an example of the things that, as you say, we are meant to presume have happened between one episode and the next. And I appreciate they probably aren't worth getting into most of the time, but an occasional nod would be nice, and I think this season has lacked that occasional nod sometimes. But then, as I have dicussed at length elsewhere, the message that Stuff Happens and People And Time Lords Move On is being planted quite a bit and that I would like to think that is deliberate, it certainly makes sense to me anyway.
*does a cry*
Even Steven Moffat thinks I'm a man.
*wails*
I've just come from another message board where the last thing I typed was MOFFAT FOR TEH WIN, and look what happens.
*sob*
And that's it really. Nos thinks I am now a BNF, yes? Nos would like to bask in my glory of coaxing teh Moff out of hiding just to say what he done said there.
*hubris*
But anyway, he's not angry, really, he done sent me PM saying all was well. No money changed hands. More's the pity.
I say again: MOFFAT FOR TEH WIN!!!!
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Date: 2006-06-21 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 10:57 am (UTC)*fails at BNFdom*
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:23 am (UTC)*mixes cake*
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:52 am (UTC)*counts candles* Now, do we count Teh Moff for TV Candles only, or do we count that one story? And what about that Curse of Joanna Lumley thing? What does that count as? Maybe is the candles were different colours?
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:56 am (UTC)GET ON WITH IT!
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:58 am (UTC)One blue candle for the story inna Decalog, two red ones for TV (two-parters only give one candle, yo), and a pink one for Curse of Fatal Death?
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Date: 2006-06-21 01:35 pm (UTC)...
Does it?
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Date: 2006-06-21 12:45 pm (UTC)*YAY FOR CAKE*
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Date: 2006-06-21 01:35 pm (UTC)*sobs*
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Date: 2006-06-21 01:44 pm (UTC)*loves Teh Moff, really*
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Date: 2006-06-23 08:24 am (UTC)*LUVS TEH MOFF*
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