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Post by burrunjor on Nov 22, 2023 19:52:08 GMT
Oh also some other howlers. I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/doctor-whos-russell-t-davies-wants-to-makeway-for-trans-storytellers-424074/[on reality TV shows] I love them, they are just fantastically riveting and anyone who suggests otherwise is a pretentious arsehole.
[on Queer as Folk (1999)] So there I was, having to defend myself against all manner of idiotic shock jocks on the radio and some very stern journalists, as well as the people of Gay Land who were horrified that I chose to depict homosexuals as people who liked drinking and shagging. I remember thinking I could either sink or be brilliant in this situation. I chose to be brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2023 20:04:12 GMT
f*ck you Russell. Curse of Fenric shits on anything you wrote and McCoy and Sophie for all the odd bit of funny angry acting from McCoy are much better than Eccelston or Rose in the entire first season. Respectfully disagree with this. I do prefer McCoy to Eccleston but beside a few bad moments, Billie's performance as Rose was excellent, whereas I always felt Sophie was quite wooden as Ace, something which is not helped by those awkward exclamations ("wicked!" "ace!") that were probably dated and embarrassing at the time, let alone today. Classic Who has a far purer soul than NuWho, but the peripheries are almost always improved upon in the newer incarnation (pacing, music, production value, etc.) |
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Post by UncleDeadly on Nov 22, 2023 20:09:44 GMT
Objectively, he isn't. Unless you can name what he plays..? That's something called a joke; it's not meant to be taken literally... You've misinterpreted the meaning of the quote. However, you'd do well to heed your own words., so your effort hasn't been entirely wasted...
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Post by Spark Doll King on Nov 22, 2023 20:17:45 GMT
How I feel about most nuwho dialog these days...
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Post by burrunjor on Nov 22, 2023 22:32:31 GMT
f*ck you Russell. Curse of Fenric shits on anything you wrote and McCoy and Sophie for all the odd bit of funny angry acting from McCoy are much better than Eccelston or Rose in the entire first season. Respectfully disagree with this. I do prefer McCoy to Eccleston but beside a few bad moments, Billie's performance as Rose was excellent, whereas I always felt Sophie was quite wooden as Ace, something which is not helped by those awkward exclamations ("wicked!" "ace!") that were probably dated and embarrassing at the time, let alone today. Classic Who has a far purer soul than NuWho, but the peripheries are almost always improved upon in the newer incarnation (pacing, music, production value, etc.) Well I do have Sophie Aldred reading out one of my stories (that will be released next year) so I do have a bit of a dog in the fight haha. (She's already done 3 of the 7.) Still I was being perhaps a bit hyperbolic. Billie Piper is an excellent actress and could have easily played Ace (Sophie could similarly have played Rose.) I absolutely do not think Sophie was ever wooden. If anything you can maybe say she is a bit too hyper in her first story. That's however perhaps more the writing as Ace is definitely made too crazy and over the top jumping up and down and getting angry at everything in Dragonfire LMAO. So glad they toned her down for Remembrance and all thereafter. Meanwhile in terms of her writing Ace does come over sometimes as a bit of a middle class guys idea of a cool street kid "BOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM" LOL. Still overall I think she's a much better companion and every girl than Rose to be honest. People compare them, and there are some similarities. Both tough cockney girls, both have something mysterious following them around (this is repeated with Donna, Amy and Clara, Ace is the original impossible girl.) She also develops a much more intense relationship with the Doctor and the big mystery turns out to be a battle with the Doctors old enemy. but Ace was honestly the better done version of it, at least I think. Ace's relationship with the Doctor is more appropriate, father/daughter, rather than cradle robber/fangirl. Ace also was actually a lot tougher and more proactive and less dependent on the Doctor than Rose in most stories, other than the big finale's where the companion undermines the Doctor. Ace manages to kill monsters with fairly ordinary weapons and her own wits and cunning more of the time. Rose hardly ever does apart from a few instances like with Satan. In order to kill the Daleks, she had to become a goddess. Ace's weapons meanwhile are things she invents because she has an interest in science rather than magic pixie fairie dust. Ace actually shows how an ordinary person can be useful where as Rose just craps out and gives her magic powers. Also Ace's mystery was better in that it was just a battle with an old enemy, rather than the fate of all universes, and her being the chosen one, and her being the most important person in the Doctors life, all of which again made it the companions show. Journey's End is the absolute nadir of this. I HATE how badly it undermines the Doctor, having someone else get his powers and use them better than he does. Ace's was the perfect balance of allowing the companion to take more of a centre stage, but not turn the Doctor into a doofus. Also Ace used the suburban background to benefit the sci fi and horror, IE create an atmosphere around it. Ghostlight takes place in a creepy mansion outside of her home, so that they can set up the scary idea that the teenage Ace crept into the haunted house in the middle of nowhere that no one in the village had dared go near. Similarly Survival uses the suburban settings to not only contrast with the wild of the jungle, but also as part of the horror, that a dingy little town like that is the type of place someone could easily be snatched and no one would give a shit. Rose's suburban background however existed for the most part outside of the sci fi, and derailed it like in Parting of the Ways. There we just cut from a cool Dalek invasion in the future to wallow in Eastenders type domestics. Same with Clara's family in Time of the Doctor, and even Martha's and Donna's too. Finally Ace was a more sympathetic character in all honesty than Rose. She didn't treat her boyfriend like crap, she wasn't smug and elitist about who could join the TARDIS. On the contrary she made friends very easily in every episode (perhaps more with the Chinese babe from Battlefield, Mags and definitely more with Kara LOL.) Ace to me is better observed in this respect. She's that cool, Tomboyish girl that's really chill and you can just talk too, she doesn't care where you came from, is very handy, but quite vulnerable and is a total softie around cute kids haha. Known lots of girls like that. Rose meanwhile for me at least is still more of an Oxford boys idea of a working class gal. Then again Sophie is working for me LOL so of course I'm going to say that.  PS does anyone remember that series Sophie did in the 90s called It's A Mystery? That scared the absolute shit out of me as a child. |
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