The glamour's the first thing that you learn when you take on the left hand path

[alexsarll]

If going through a red light, in the wrong lane, over the speed limit, and breaking a pedestrian's leg does not constitute dangerous driving, then what exactly does? Do you have to be smoking sticks of TNT while being fellated by a sabretooth tiger at the same time? Or did he maybe get off because he's a sporting celeb, and they must be excused the consequences of their congenital idiocy and aggression, just like the Victoria line's early closing is suspended when Arsehole are playing, because sport always gets special fvcking treatment?

"Russell T Davies was at a wedding recently when a guest complained about what he'd done to Doctor Who, an otherwise wholesome family drama. "She told me she was shocked because Captain Jack is bisexual and wouldn't let her children watch it," says Davies. "I had such a go at her. I said: 'You're an unfit mother. You're ignorant. Your children are cleverer than you.'" A handy reminder that, fundamentally, we should still consider the man responsible for the Slitheen and Catherine sodding Tate to be one of the good days.
(Though obviously nothing RTD writes is likely to compare to a Moffat-scripted meeting between the Fifth and Tenth Doctors, on TV November 16th. Why is the internet not more excited about this?)

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

"they've been wildly variable (though even the best have had cringeworthy moments)"

Name one Doctor where that doesn't apply.

Obviously I can't convince you that Tennant's suitably Doctorish if you're not feeling it, and besides, I suspect we may have had this one out before. But while I'd agree with your central argument - the show stands or falls by its Doctor - I increasingly find myself liking all the Doctors. There used to be a massive gap between my favourite (McCoy) and least (Fat Colin); now, there's barely a sliver, as I increasingly see them all as just...the Doctor. I think maybe Eccleston was the key to this; the first Doctor I knew as an actor before he was the Doctor, and I feared he'd be wrong for the role (Hell, I'd just seen him as Vindice, who'd blame me?). But once he was on screen, and even with the show somewhat repurposed (as it had been before, and doubtless will be again)...yeah, he was the Doctor, alright.

If you do try one from the last season, try 'Blink'. Not only is it Moffat being the best again, but the Doctor's not in it much.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

You thought? Because for me the 'plane rescue, even some of the stuff with the Kryponite island - that was Superman. But as Clark, he just made me remember what a bloody stupid idea the whole secret identity business was, even after all Morrison & Quitely had done to make me believe in it.