Originally Posted by Granny McSmith:
“I agree with you (again
) I liked the Christmas Invasion, though I didn't see it until after I'd watched series 2, but disliked The Runaway Bride - because of CT's loudness - on first viewing. Later, when in spite of my initial misgivings CT became my favourite companion of New Who, I revised my opinion and decided it was OK.
But that illustrates your point about the specials being part of a story arc - I liked it more after I came to see it as part of the story of Donna and the development of her character. In the stand alone specials you don't get that involvement.
I also agree that the writers may try too hard with the specials to make them more special and it can be counter productive, because they cram too much in and it becomes OTT? They get "special stars" like Kylie and she isn't that great (imo).
Apparantly for 2009 it was specials or nothing and I vastly preferred the specials to nothing, but I wondered then and I wonder now if a mini-series wouldn't have been better? Say 6 episodes with the regen at the end and Matt taking over at Christmas?
Anyway, it didn't happen, so speculation is fruitless.”
“I agree with you (again
) I liked the Christmas Invasion, though I didn't see it until after I'd watched series 2, but disliked The Runaway Bride - because of CT's loudness - on first viewing. Later, when in spite of my initial misgivings CT became my favourite companion of New Who, I revised my opinion and decided it was OK.But that illustrates your point about the specials being part of a story arc - I liked it more after I came to see it as part of the story of Donna and the development of her character. In the stand alone specials you don't get that involvement.
I also agree that the writers may try too hard with the specials to make them more special and it can be counter productive, because they cram too much in and it becomes OTT? They get "special stars" like Kylie and she isn't that great (imo).
Apparantly for 2009 it was specials or nothing and I vastly preferred the specials to nothing, but I wondered then and I wonder now if a mini-series wouldn't have been better? Say 6 episodes with the regen at the end and Matt taking over at Christmas?
Anyway, it didn't happen, so speculation is fruitless.”
Well just so you know we don't agree on everything, I actually didn't mind Kylie in Voyage Of The Damned. She and Tennant were probably the only two good things about it, oh apart from that fella who played Jobel in Revelation Of The Daleks.
Yes, I'm glad we had some Who last year, we shouldn't really want to moan about the fact that we did, but they were that bad that we had too!!!!!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as you say speculation is somewhat academic now!
