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Given the ratings crash and the obvious behind the scenes shake up, I think we may see a very different show under the Pip and Jane crusher's tenure as show-runner.
A writer's room could be the best thing to happen to the show. It should certainly reign in the more self-indulgent and shoddy aspects of the writing over the last 12 years. The days of RTD and Moffat firing one out in the small hours (on the morning they start shooting) is probably over.
Emotional manipulation. I expect big, emotional moments and twists that fuck with the viewer's expectations. But more Richard Curtis-style than RTD. I don't think we'll see a return to saccharinism, but it certainly won't be dry sci-fi.
A new look and sound. Most of the changes in the show's look and feel have been introduced gradually i.e. TARDIS interior, titles, themes, attire changes, etc. I expect the whole mise en scene to change dramatically; to tear itself away from the visual and sonic dourness of the Capaldi era, and to explode with colour, vibrancy and punch. They're going to have to re-market the show to an entirely new generation, as it's clear that the millenials who used to watch it are drifting away to more cerebral and innovative stuff like Black Mirror and the mediocre (but substantially better) Marvel universe.
The Doctor. Chibnall doesn't fuck about when he casts actors.I honestly can't see him casting an unknown out of choice, and certainly no-one as lightweight as Chris Marshall in the role. It's probably time for someone young, optimistic and full of energy, as the old boy slips the shackles of first-cycle moroseness and self-doubt, and becomes more self-assured (hopefully without becoming too much of a Tennant clone).
Why are you girls thinking? Are you pessimistic, or do you want the bollocked-chinned, soppy-faced twat sacked before he even gets the chance to run tings?
Answers on a stamped addressed envelope to:
BBC Madchester,
PO BOX 10 0 11 00 02 - 0
Mucky Towers
Twat
Given the ratings crash and the obvious behind the scenes shake up, I think we may see a very different show under the Pip and Jane crusher's tenure as show-runner.
A writer's room could be the best thing to happen to the show. It should certainly reign in the more self-indulgent and shoddy aspects of the writing over the last 12 years. The days of RTD and Moffat firing one out in the small hours (on the morning they start shooting) is probably over.
Emotional manipulation. I expect big, emotional moments and twists that fuck with the viewer's expectations. But more Richard Curtis-style than RTD. I don't think we'll see a return to saccharinism, but it certainly won't be dry sci-fi.
A new look and sound. Most of the changes in the show's look and feel have been introduced gradually i.e. TARDIS interior, titles, themes, attire changes, etc. I expect the whole mise en scene to change dramatically; to tear itself away from the visual and sonic dourness of the Capaldi era, and to explode with colour, vibrancy and punch. They're going to have to re-market the show to an entirely new generation, as it's clear that the millenials who used to watch it are drifting away to more cerebral and innovative stuff like Black Mirror and the mediocre (but substantially better) Marvel universe.
The Doctor. Chibnall doesn't fuck about when he casts actors.I honestly can't see him casting an unknown out of choice, and certainly no-one as lightweight as Chris Marshall in the role. It's probably time for someone young, optimistic and full of energy, as the old boy slips the shackles of first-cycle moroseness and self-doubt, and becomes more self-assured (hopefully without becoming too much of a Tennant clone).
Why are you girls thinking? Are you pessimistic, or do you want the bollocked-chinned, soppy-faced twat sacked before he even gets the chance to run tings?
Answers on a stamped addressed envelope to:
BBC Madchester,
PO BOX 10 0 11 00 02 - 0
Mucky Towers
Twat