Oh, please.

[icepixie]

RTD: 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*

Comments

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seems pretty weak. I mean, every single "alien planet" looked like the forest in BC on SG-1. Didn't stop them from doing alien plots. And people just accepted it - it's sci-fi after all.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Alien planets are "too expensive."

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.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

What. The. F...?

They could always film in quarries! Quarries are cheap! And cool!

[elflore.livejournal.com]

I know we've talked this one before, but...I think the article's probably making a bigger deal of this than it really warrants. I don't think RTD is saying we're going to get less alien planets than we have, just that we won't get more...and after a season that gave us New Earth and a 2-parter on the Impossible Planet, plus that gorgeous shot at the beginning of Army of Ghosts, I'm not feeling *too* stranded on Earth. And I'll sacrifice an alien planet or two if it gives me a werewolf (as you pointed out), or the Doctor on horseback crashing through a mirror (a moment they almost had to cut, until they found they could do some other episodes more cheaply).

I found it particularly interesting, though, that he says the ratings are always lower for unearthly eps. Hmmm. Might be sadly true--he probably has a point about the niche market of even Star Trek and Star Wars. I think, too, whether because we're scifi geeks or Americans we think of Doctor Who as science fiction, whereas to a lot of Brits I think it might be more fantasy-horror, closer to Buffy than Trek.

In any case, I have to say...I don't know that any alien planet could get me half as excited as I'm to know they shot part of the Shakespeare ep for next season at the Globe!

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Okay, if RTD is going to blame his bad writing ON THE SCENERY... can I get off the bus now?

And I'm totally out of the loop, and you've probably seen this ages ago, but.. woah (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5271054.stm).

On the scrapped Rose spin-off: "It spoils Doctor Who if we can see Rose... if we see as a concrete fact that her life continues to be as exciting without the Doctor," he said.

!!!

We can't see her with her dignity and self-respect uncrushed! Woe!

Idiot.

And did people not like The Impossible Planet 2-parter? That was my favorite episode in the history of ever. I'm going to go to my happy place now, where everybody enjoys homages to Dante...