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Derrick Sherwin
Never afraid to put the boot in, Derrick Sherwin interviews are often a refreshing read. I managed to miss his recent DWM one ![]() Quote:
I've watched some of the recent ones, and what they're doing now I find pseudo-cerebral, in that you overlap stories. Moffat irritates me. All that happens is you get to a stage where to get out of it, he pulls out some computer graphics.
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Well I don't think he's very clever, he gets on my tits frankly, the way he constructs stories. It moves so fast that audiences can't actually follow it. I know would never write for him, because I would write :'So-and-so-and-so-and-so. Pause. A moment to think.' He wouldn't have that. I'm sure he wouldn't.
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I set about re-designing the format of the series which, in my opinion had become bogged down in stories about jelly-like blobs from outer space – crazy and unbelievable sci-fi creations which children and hardly adults could even believe in as the basis for a story. I decided that slowly “Dr Who” should be ‘brought down to Earth’ and to assist in this and to give some relief to the main actors I invented an Earth-bound group called “UNIT”
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I take it then that Sherwin thinks plastic dummies breaking out of shop windows as being realistic.
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Well worn gripes really.
Sherwin produced the show 45 years ago. All TV has moved on since then. |
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Those titles that are just someone's name always scare me ...
Glad he hasn't died. |
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Those titles that are just someone's name always scare me ...
Glad he hasn't died. I've always been fond of Sherwin, bless him. He's a cantankerous old sod, and I disagree with him 90% of the time, but he's one of Who's true characters, weirdly impossible to dislike despite all the odds, and I'll always be more willing to give the time of day to somebody who expresses what he thinks even if he know's it's unpopular than to people who throw out the same old "everything was wonderful and the people were great and blahblahblah" false platitudes in interviews without ever saying anything. |
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This, very much, haha.
I've always been fond of Sherwin, bless him. He's a cantankerous old sod, and I disagree with him 90% of the time, but he's one of Who's true characters, weirdly impossible to dislike despite all the odds, and I'll always be more willing to give the time of day to somebody who expresses what he thinks even if he know's it's unpopular than to people who throw out the same old "everything was wonderful and the people were great and blahblahblah" false platitudes in interviews without ever saying anything. Assume Wikipedia is correct there? He can be as stroppy and off message as he blinking well likes just because of the above as far as I'm concerned.Edit: Good point above about just a name in the thread title! Won't do that again. Could've really worried all the Kelly Monteith fans on the UK TV sub forum. Weellll, I like him anyway. (sorry, tad off topic there!) |
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Well worn gripes really.
Sherwin produced the show 45 years ago. All TV has moved on since then. And I'd rather watch his stuff than Moffat's any day of the week. |
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None of which means his opinions are invalid.
And I'd rather watch his stuff than Moffat's any day of the week.
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None of which means his opinions are invalid.
And I'd rather watch his stuff than Moffat's any day of the week. It's just not something that we haven't heard many times before - eg: criticising modern Who for an over-reliance on CG effects. Yes, fair point, but that's true of nearly all modern TV. And that's simply what programme makers do these days. Things are very different from Sherwin's heyday. I agree with you, Irma and Chuff, I too get more enjoyment from watching 40+ year old Doctor Who than I do from the current series. But I suspect that's partly a product of getting older and less susceptible to new things. Things might not be any better, or worse, now than they were in Sherwin's day - they are just different. |
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Assume Wikipedia is correct there? He can be as stroppy and off message as he blinking well likes just because of the above as far as I'm concerned.