Season 10 Blu Ray- Moffat rears his bloody head again...
Jul 6, 2021 23:04:15 GMT
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Post by Bernard Marx on Jul 6, 2021 23:04:15 GMT
This is a bit of a ramble, but it's worth observing on here, because Moffat always finds a way of making himself look like an even bigger twat.
I received my standard edition copy of the Season 10 blu ray collection today, having not picked it up on initial release. It's a collection I look forward to delving further into.
However, I checked out the 90 documentary "Doctor Who and the Third Man" today, and as expected, Moffat made an extensive appearance alongside Mark Gatiss. The documentary itself focuses on Jon Pertwee's era as a whole, as well as making the occasional nod as to the politics of the era generally, with key figures at the heart of the era present throughout. It's generally a fairly heartfelt piece, yet a section dispersed throughout the documentary focuses on Moffat and Gatiss interviewed together, jarring somewhat tonally with the remainder of the feature. The latter appeared enthusiastic about the era generally and offered a handful of incisive talking points (if occasionally coming across as smug), whilst the former, to no one's surprise, came across as an absolute twat.
As soon as the discussion turned to CSO, Moffat immediately proceeded to ridicule the programme's visual effects, declaring that he "felt ashamed to be a fan", and in a startling non-sequitur started talking about the giant rat in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and the "shame" associated with it, despite having bugger all to do with the actual discussion. Gatiss seemed to wince at this and tried offering a counter-narrative of his own, which seemed to shut him up.
Sadly, Moffat would subsequently go on about Doctor Who supposedly being "bonkers" in an abject display of trivial commentary saying absolutely nothing, and tellingly, his understanding of the politics of the era were nowhere to be seen, making the vapid copout that the character is supposedly a "Tory" and a "Revolutionary" depending on the viewer. He seems to be saying that the political objectives of the era are completely subjective, yet Barry Letts is documented in the feature as saying "A standard sci-fi story is OK, but the important question to ask is 'What is it actually about?'". Upon this question being confronted in the documentary (in reference to the Peladon stories and the EEC), Moffat appears to have no rebuttal.
It just goes to showcase how pompous the prat is. He assumes that the series was crap down to the effects alone, yet has little consideration for the socio-political ideas present in the era at all, simply describing it as "bonkers" and nothing more. It's a testament to his own era, I guess. Upon being asked "What is it about" in reference to the bulk of his output, you'd be hard-pressed to come to a clear answer, because it's a question the man clearly never contemplated approaching.
Even after leaving the new series, Moffat still finds a way of behaving like an arrogant arse.
I received my standard edition copy of the Season 10 blu ray collection today, having not picked it up on initial release. It's a collection I look forward to delving further into.
However, I checked out the 90 documentary "Doctor Who and the Third Man" today, and as expected, Moffat made an extensive appearance alongside Mark Gatiss. The documentary itself focuses on Jon Pertwee's era as a whole, as well as making the occasional nod as to the politics of the era generally, with key figures at the heart of the era present throughout. It's generally a fairly heartfelt piece, yet a section dispersed throughout the documentary focuses on Moffat and Gatiss interviewed together, jarring somewhat tonally with the remainder of the feature. The latter appeared enthusiastic about the era generally and offered a handful of incisive talking points (if occasionally coming across as smug), whilst the former, to no one's surprise, came across as an absolute twat.
As soon as the discussion turned to CSO, Moffat immediately proceeded to ridicule the programme's visual effects, declaring that he "felt ashamed to be a fan", and in a startling non-sequitur started talking about the giant rat in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and the "shame" associated with it, despite having bugger all to do with the actual discussion. Gatiss seemed to wince at this and tried offering a counter-narrative of his own, which seemed to shut him up.
Sadly, Moffat would subsequently go on about Doctor Who supposedly being "bonkers" in an abject display of trivial commentary saying absolutely nothing, and tellingly, his understanding of the politics of the era were nowhere to be seen, making the vapid copout that the character is supposedly a "Tory" and a "Revolutionary" depending on the viewer. He seems to be saying that the political objectives of the era are completely subjective, yet Barry Letts is documented in the feature as saying "A standard sci-fi story is OK, but the important question to ask is 'What is it actually about?'". Upon this question being confronted in the documentary (in reference to the Peladon stories and the EEC), Moffat appears to have no rebuttal.
It just goes to showcase how pompous the prat is. He assumes that the series was crap down to the effects alone, yet has little consideration for the socio-political ideas present in the era at all, simply describing it as "bonkers" and nothing more. It's a testament to his own era, I guess. Upon being asked "What is it about" in reference to the bulk of his output, you'd be hard-pressed to come to a clear answer, because it's a question the man clearly never contemplated approaching.
Even after leaving the new series, Moffat still finds a way of behaving like an arrogant arse.
