That Doctor Who announcement

[owl]

I'm sure all of us have seen this by now.

I'm not sure what to think.



On the one hand, a year with very little Doctor Who *weeps* But at least we get the fifth series confirmed, it's not like we're left thinking that it's being allowed to trickle off in specials. I am apprehensive that Rusty is going to try writing the specials all by himself. Because then they probably will be crappy. On the other hand, does this mean that David is being let off to do Hamlet and will be coming back for the fifth series? *oh please*

On the gripping hand, people saying that 'it's on hiatus because Martha was rubbish!1' should go and write DT/BP RFP or something. It wasn't Martha that was rubbish, it was Rusty's finale. And she can kick your arse wholesale.

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[crazy-vasey.livejournal.com]

This means that virtually my only Who fix for a year will come from fanfiction. Given that most Who fic knocks the parts I actually find interesting on their head in favour of more romance this does not please me. We need more stories about the Daleks exterminating and less about the Doctor and Rose or the Master (or possibly all three at the same time, you never know) slobbering over each other.

[owl]

I wouldn't find the fanfic being dripping with romance (most fanfic is) if they would just get it out of the canon.

[crazy-vasey.livejournal.com]

It somehow seems much less objectionable the way they do it canon where we get a plot mixed in with it. Well, except when the Master's, ah, getting a little too excited about talking to the Doctor on the phone. That was laying it on ever so slightly too thick for my tastes. Subtlety, thy name is not Russell T Davies.

Torchwood, of course, is the exception, what with it being utterly terrible and not worth the effort it takes to switch the TV on and select the channel to watch it.