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Post by cigarman on Jan 23, 2016 14:40:13 GMT
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Post by Escher on Jan 23, 2016 15:15:35 GMT
Chibnall, proven writer, a true fan of the show from way back and co-helming Torchwood is enough for me to take this as a good sign for the show. No Who in 2016, but the spin-off show 'Class' is due out this year. Not all is lost.
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Post by CountClockwise on Jan 23, 2016 16:13:40 GMT
I think this is great news and I think it was time for a change. Unlike a lot of the fandom I don't hate moffat or most of his era, it's just that after a while it got tiring and by the time series 8 and 9 came around I saw the first episodes I considered truly bad. My only concern is that considering how infamous the moffat era has become that it will just be brushed under the rug and forgotten about if the fans get their way. I don't want that to happen. I want the history to be acknowledged and a different creator to do something new to it all. I don't know Chibnall's work but I wish him all the best. Now hopefully moffat will wrap up his storylines in the 2017 series and set the stage for a new era
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Post by Escher on Jan 23, 2016 16:18:44 GMT
I don't know Chibnall's work He was the co-producer and effective head writer for the first two series of Torchwood and wrote these episodes which are some of the best I've seen anywhere: Day One Cyberwoman Countrycide End of Days Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Adrift Fragments Exit Wounds
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Post by olegrand on Jan 23, 2016 16:21:18 GMT
From what I have gathered, series 10 (the one which has been pushed back to 2017) will still be run by Steven Moffat and we won't see Chris Chibnall's episodes before 2018. Doesn't this suggest that the next season is being rewritten / "doctored" (pun unintended ) in an emergency? Well, perhaps this is a good thing, in the long run. I must say I'm quite eager to see some truly novel ideas in the series (as opposed to more continuity tricks and navel-gazing); regardless of his considerable talent as a writer (IMHO "Blink" is probably one of the best DW episodes ever), I think that, as a showrunner, Steven Moffat has taken the show in an increasingly repetitive format, with too much focus on the Doctor's inner "angst" as opposed to his adventures. Don't get me wrong! Some of my favorite moments in the truly remarkable Russell T. Davies era were ones where we actually saw (or glimpsed) the Doctor's darker aspects - like, for instance, in "Dalek" or in "The Waters of Mars" ("Time Lord victorious" and all that)... but these moments were great precisely because they did not happen every other episode and also because they were carefully inserted in dynamic, active storylines, rather than used as some kind of ever-returning plot device, making it less-and-less relevant every time it is reactivated - that's one of the reasons, for instance, why I think that Clara should have stayed dead after "Facing the Raven". This would have made her death a truly tragic "milestone" in the 12th Doctor's destiny, whereas the chosen resolution reduced this death to a mere alibi for yet more "continuity acrobatics". Hopefully, this "gap year" will allow the series to shift expectations and explore new narrative territory - and with the extraordinary Peter Capaldi at the helm of the TARDIS, this could be truly FANTASTIC, once again.
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Post by CountClockwise on Jan 23, 2016 16:30:36 GMT
He was the co-producer and effective head writer for the first two series of Torchwood and wrote these episodes which are some of the best I've seen anywhere: Day One Cyberwoman Countrycide End of Days Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Adrift Fragments Exit Wounds Well that's put me in my place, I'm now looking forward to it all even more. I agree with you Olegrand about the structure and it would be nice to see it different. There'll always be a paranoia and people complaining that its not the Russel T Davies era but that's to be expected with any fandom.
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rulandor
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Post by rulandor on Jan 24, 2016 15:10:39 GMT
Also, Chibnall is the creative head behind Broadchurch. I have seen only the first series of Broadchurch, but found it pure genius.
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