Why some writers need leashes

[taleya]

Aka "When bad things happen to promising characters"

First off, the Christmas programming sucks this year. One national lampoon vacation and it's not even the Christmas one? BAHHH.

So I landed on Christmas Invasion on ABC :D

You know, re-watching it reminds you of how (dare I say it!) likeable Rose was in S27. She certainly wasn't in my upper echelons, but she wasn't too bad. The shop girl chav who sees things beyond imagining, grows up and works with the Doctor, healing the disconnection and broken soul left after the Time War

Then season two happens, and four, and the character was destroyed. She turned into an obsessive, shallow, bunny-boiling possessive psycho bitch, to be honest. The universe became something for her amusement, as long as she had her pretty boy. And the faery tale ending of S28 left one with the taste of bitter gall that was only superseded by s30's complete and utter vomit-fest. It isn't a grand sweeping love story - it's Basic Instinct in Cardiff. The fact the Doctor leaves her with what he personally considers to be a broken simulacrum should give you a pretty fair idea of how fucked up it got.

Tennant was so damned promising in Christmas Invasion. But they took it too far - joy de vivre became maniacally unbalanced, the detached alienness became emo faggery and sad to say, in a shameful sort of place I'm actually a wee bit glad that DT is leaving - because he's a phenomenal actor and deserves so much better than the shash he's been served.

RTD can pull some brilliance out. But dear god, he needs one hell of a beta, and preferably a leash. Because far too often he comes across as that oh-so-annoying Fanfiction.Net writer with the brilliant ideas that end up smashed into the ground and raped by wilderbeest.

Comments

[siamesegoth2.livejournal.com]

Agreed on all points, i love me some DT but it's time for a new doc noaw.

Didn't you know? RTD does not NEED betas, because he's fabulous and brilliant and daring and doctor who is his ALL HIS !

*scuse bad typing im knitting and hacking my lungs up at the same time.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

You know, when they said S28 was going to be all about the hubris, I thought they meant story arc wise, not in regards to the head writer :P

[astropixie.livejournal.com]

I agree with all of this. I loved Rose at the beginning, but I hate what she became when she "dramatically returned"--never mind the fact that she couldn't seem to talk anymore...

I think RTD's greatest achievement was bringing the Master back. LotTL was amazing. (Too bad the finale sucked, but you know. It was almost there!)

Also, I should download the Colbert album!

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes you should. Only a couple of tracks aren't a bit too redneck republican for my tastes, but it's for a good cause and all that.

[the-10thdoctor.livejournal.com]

I wanted DT to stay into the Moffat era so he'd have more good writing to work with. Damn it.