Have to say, Mcguigan's reviews are ones I always respect, if not always agree with (can't the same about the site he writes for). However, this one seems rambling and messy...mainly because most of it isn't a preview of Kill The Moon! ;-)
This isn't actually billed as a spoiler free review. It does avoid giving to much detail, but I found it more spoilery than the other reviews. Just thought I'd warn everyone.
It wouldn't be difficult to argue that, but I wouldn't be the one to do it.
For example, I think Nine and Twelve are far more similar than Ten or Eleven are to either of them.
I think Eleven and Twelve both have a distinct ''alien-ness'' that isn't present in 10 at all. For instance, a story such as ''The Lodger'' would probably work just as well with Capaldi, with the Doctor's weirdness alienating the human guest cast. A story like that just wouldn't work with the much more charismatic Tenth Doctor (not that that's a bad thing. Ten's charisma is one of the things I like about his Doctor).
One thing I find annoying is this idea of how similar Smith and Tennant were. The only episode in which I see Eleven behaving anything like Ten is ''The Eleventh Hour'' and not only was that gone by the end of the episode, it seems to be standard for Moffat's ''New Doctor'' episodes as Capaldi was pretty much playing the Eleventh Doctor until the last ten minutes of ''Deep Breath''.
I'm not really looking forward to tonight's episode... all this talk of 'dark' and a 'terrible decision' resulting in rather bad news for someone... I don't like 'dark'. Dr Who is supposed to be entertaining, not 'dark'. Why do we need 'dark'?
I'm not really looking forward to tonight's episode... all this talk of 'dark' and a 'terrible decision' resulting in rather bad news for someone... I don't like 'dark'. Dr Who is supposed to be entertaining, not 'dark'. Why do we need 'dark'?
Because... it would teach the young 'uns that...sometimes good people have to do bad things? And life is complicated like that?
I'm not sure what answer you'd accept. If we didn't have dark, we wouldn't know light, right?
I'm not really looking forward to tonight's episode... all this talk of 'dark' and a 'terrible decision' resulting in rather bad news for someone... I don't like 'dark'. Dr Who is supposed to be entertaining, not 'dark'. Why do we need 'dark'?
Dark is as entertaining as light, it's just a different sort of entertaining. The fact that DW can do both adds to it's appeal. How boring if every episode was like Robot of Sherwood. How great that we can have a series with Robot of Sherwood and Kill the Moon. Caters for all tastes.
I think Eleven and Twelve both have a distinct ''alien-ness'' that isn't present in 10 at all. For instance, a story such as ''The Lodger'' would probably work just as well with Capaldi, with the Doctor's weirdness alienating the human guest cast. A story like that just wouldn't work with the much more charismatic Tenth Doctor (not that that's a bad thing. Ten's charisma is one of the things I like about his Doctor).
I'm not really looking forward to tonight's episode... all this talk of 'dark' and a 'terrible decision' resulting in rather bad news for someone... I don't like 'dark'. Dr Who is supposed to be entertaining, not 'dark'. Why do we need 'dark'?
Because it's deep, and lovely, and we'd never see the stars without it.
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http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/87-Kill-the-Moon-DWO-Spoiler-Free-Preview.aspx
This isn't actually billed as a spoiler free review. It does avoid giving to much detail, but I found it more spoilery than the other reviews. Just thought I'd warn everyone.
One thing I find annoying is this idea of how similar Smith and Tennant were. The only episode in which I see Eleven behaving anything like Ten is ''The Eleventh Hour'' and not only was that gone by the end of the episode, it seems to be standard for Moffat's ''New Doctor'' episodes as Capaldi was pretty much playing the Eleventh Doctor until the last ten minutes of ''Deep Breath''.
Because... it would teach the young 'uns that...sometimes good people have to do bad things? And life is complicated like that?
I'm not sure what answer you'd accept. If we didn't have dark, we wouldn't know light, right?
Dark is as entertaining as light, it's just a different sort of entertaining. The fact that DW can do both adds to it's appeal. How boring if every episode was like Robot of Sherwood. How great that we can have a series with Robot of Sherwood and Kill the Moon. Caters for all tastes.
The Lodger actually started life as a 10th Doctor Comic strip. Though In the original he was living with Mickey who of course already knew who he was.
Because it's deep, and lovely, and we'd never see the stars without it.