I think Rusty has his big flights of fancy, but he works best within some pretty strict limits, like certain poets who say that form works better for them because free verse leaves too much blank space for them to fill and so they can't get started. So Casanova was excellent because he was working within the confines of a basic narrative he got from a book. Similarly, he can be pretty imaginative on Earth--I loved TEotW--but DW is, by its very nature, basically free verse. Hence lots of us getting pissed off about the unnecessary restraints.
Argh. Maybe he'll go over to Torchwood full time and leave someone else in charge at DW. (I know they're bringing in Gary Russell, who was in charge of the Big Finish audios, over as script editor this season. He has a massive fondness for Gallifrey and alien planets, so maybe we'll see more!)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 06:03 pm (UTC)I think Rusty has his big flights of fancy, but he works best within some pretty strict limits, like certain poets who say that form works better for them because free verse leaves too much blank space for them to fill and so they can't get started. So Casanova was excellent because he was working within the confines of a basic narrative he got from a book. Similarly, he can be pretty imaginative on Earth--I loved TEotW--but DW is, by its very nature, basically free verse. Hence lots of us getting pissed off about the unnecessary restraints.
Argh. Maybe he'll go over to Torchwood full time and leave someone else in charge at DW. (I know they're bringing in Gary Russell, who was in charge of the Big Finish audios, over as script editor this season. He has a massive fondness for Gallifrey and alien planets, so maybe we'll see more!)