Oh, please.
Sep. 19th, 2006 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieRTD: Alien planets are "too expensive."
And a Slitheen ship crashing into Big Ben isn't? Or a massive CGI wereworlf? Or the sun blowing up and incinerating the Earth? I'm sorry, that doesn't fly. Try again.
P.S. Avast, me hearties! *walks around with peg leg and parrot*
And a Slitheen ship crashing into Big Ben isn't? Or a massive CGI wereworlf? Or the sun blowing up and incinerating the Earth? I'm sorry, that doesn't fly. Try again.
P.S. Avast, me hearties! *walks around with peg leg and parrot*
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Date: 2006-09-19 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-19 05:19 pm (UTC)Oh, for the love of Pete. What a crock. I shouldn't even go read that article, should I, because it'll just make me want to throw things. What, so one or two establishing shots of a planet or a city are so damned expensive? Funny how the classic series managed to do alien planets on a regular basis, even though it had a crap budget. And as you point out, it's not like they haven't done plenty of other pricey stuff.
GAH. I am really starting to dislike you, Rusty.
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Date: 2006-09-19 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 05:22 pm (UTC)This is "Doctor Who," right? I mean, they didn't just hang out on Earth/London in the past, right?
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Date: 2006-09-19 05:56 pm (UTC)Can we just have the quality that was much of season one (with...certain exceptions... *attempts to firebomb AOL/WWIII*) back again, please?
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Date: 2006-09-19 05:57 pm (UTC)They could always film in quarries! Quarries are cheap! And cool!
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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!)
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:04 pm (UTC)Or hell, at least we could have more historicals, or things set in the future on Earth?
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:14 pm (UTC)I bet season 4 will be entirely set in a chip shop in London.
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Date: 2006-09-19 08:33 pm (UTC)Can you believe most folks at Outpost Gallifrey are big Rusty fans? I keep wondering if/when the other shoe will drop, and what will happen when it does. I stuck my head into non-sale/trade forums this weekend and just boggled.
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Date: 2006-09-19 08:37 pm (UTC)I only know RTD from DW and Casanova, but in both instances, he's tended to go off the reservation. The last hour of Casanova has some seriously weird stuff that made me blink and say "Huh?!?" I still haven't figured out where it came from, because it sure isn't history! And with DW, I feel like he's already shown what little range he has, and is now running out of ideas--not that the ideas he's written himself have been all that fabulous. (A friend on another forum pointed out that a lot of "Doomsday" was basically like a little kid playing with his action figures, and I have to agree. Sure, you want kids to be able to watch, but a show with this much history shouldn't be constantly down on their level. Not when you want the adults to watch, too.)
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Date: 2006-09-19 08:39 pm (UTC)Who's that in your icon? How cool that we have thematically matching icons from totally different sources! :)
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Date: 2006-09-19 09:19 pm (UTC)I don't know that I could handle another AOL/WWIII, but something similarly clunky would be okay if there were good episodes along with it, yeah.
I avoid OG like the plague. Nothing, good or bad, about it surprises me. *g*
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Date: 2006-09-19 09:22 pm (UTC)Mahandra, from the brilliant but short-lived Wonderfalls. This icon, and all my mood icons, are also from that show. Dude, get the DVDs from Netflix (there are only thirteen eps). YOU WILL LOVE IT, I SWEAR.
(No, really. An "overeducated and underemployed" retail clerk, Jaye, gets hit on the head and then inanimate objects start telling her to help people. She's not too happy about it. Brilliant TV, similar in execution to and by the same guy who does Dead Like Me.)
How cool that we have thematically matching icons from totally different sources! :)
Hee!
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Date: 2006-09-19 09:24 pm (UTC)Doesn't rule them out, but I don't expect to see many of them, somehow...
I bet season 4 will be entirely set in a chip shop in London.
It horrifies me that this is not a completely absurd suggestion.
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Date: 2006-09-19 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 09:42 pm (UTC)Oh, please, please let this happen! After all, I get the feeling he's all about Torchwood at this point and maybe doesn't care so much about DW anymore. (Please? Please?!?)
I need a new version of this icon that says "Rusty" instead of "Bush." Now that's saying something!
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Date: 2006-09-19 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-20 12:46 am (UTC)Heh heh heh. :D
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