Agreed up to a point: there's something to your RTD/Johns comparison, though unlike Johns RTD has occasionally been as good as he thinks he is. But in Moffat, I think Who finally has its Grant Morrison. Hell, if they'd just let Lance Parkin on to the TV show, it would have its Alan Moore as well. And I'd rather have that than Wolfmans or deFalcos or the sort of Who writers who, even on the best of the old series, made most stories twice as long as they needed to be. (Now there's a thought - in many ways Who and comics run in parallel. Terry Nation = Stan Lee, I've known that much for years. We're talking about the mixed results when the fans come up and start writing the new stuff - at times you get new highs, and at others you get either bad pastiche or embarrassing attempts at Kewl. But what has only just occurred to me is that the axis of decompression runs in opposite directions. Those interminable eight or ten-parters could almost be by Warren Ellis at his padded nadir, if you swapped his Red Bull for soothing cocoa and cut the swearing)
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Date: 2007-12-18 06:59 pm (UTC)(Now there's a thought - in many ways Who and comics run in parallel. Terry Nation = Stan Lee, I've known that much for years. We're talking about the mixed results when the fans come up and start writing the new stuff - at times you get new highs, and at others you get either bad pastiche or embarrassing attempts at Kewl. But what has only just occurred to me is that the axis of decompression runs in opposite directions. Those interminable eight or ten-parters could almost be by Warren Ellis at his padded nadir, if you swapped his Red Bull for soothing cocoa and cut the swearing)