Who.

[whatho]

I watched an entire episode of Who for the first time this season, because I needed to be using the computer and it's in the same room as the telly, and though I don't actually like much discussing things that don't particularly do it for me, mostly I thought the following two things:


1. 'Does this thing work as a teleport? Because that would be extraordinarily happy for reasons of having condensed too much plot into far too little time.'
'Yes. Yes, it does.' I'm paraphrasing, but that really did seem to be the kernel of the exchange and... well... ever so slightly of every other exchange in the entire thing except where it was just blatant exposition. And I didn't think that sort of writing was allowed on telly.

2. Why are they all the same character? Both new doctors and the new master and, to a slightly lesser extent, Jack are all quirkily hyperactive pretty bouncy young people. I don't really like people like that, but that's not the point. It's a bit like in The West Wing when you could put a solid ruler over the character cues on a transcript and then you couldn't actually tell which bit of dialogue belonged to which character.

Possibly having been in it for the long haul would've made a difference possibly. Let's be assuming that quite massively.

Comments

[whatho.livejournal.com]

It's massively true! Someone - quite a fan - tested me using the above method after I unwisely articulated to them the belief that all the characters shared the authorial voice, and they were trying to prove that it wasn't the case. And I got every single character wrong.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

Even like the JANITORS talked like they were Presidents of these United States. Even the TAXI DRIVERS did. I risk challengement by stating thus. Not that I am judgey of REAL LIFE TAXI DRIVERS because actually if they did all declaim in carefully wrought speeches it might be better than being unable to talk in clear English. <--- I am not being racist here, I just struggle with accents. Once I tried to a give a Sikhular taxi gentleman 80p, because he seemed to be saying EIGHTY! It turned out, much later, that he was saying EIGHTEEN. He wanted that quantity of pounds sterling. I was thrusting a badly judged amount towards him.







So that's NOT RACIST.