Doctor Who Season Four Finale - SPOILERS!!!
This pic is a promo image for the final two-parter for the current season four of Doctor Who. Fanboy heaven or what?
Doing the Beats: Kerouac, sexuality and On the Road
The long-awaited film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ground-breaking novel presents the perfect opportunity to re-examine the lives of the Beat Generation, writes Richard Watts. It’s not hyperbole to say that the Beat Generation – a small coterie of writers who met up in New York City in the spring of 1944 – changed the world. Without their individual quests for personal freedoms – a quest for sex and drugs before there was rock and roll; a quest which spawned the western world’s first counter-culture, the beatniks – the hippy movement of the Sixties would never have happened, and punk would have been a quiet snarl rather than a global reaction. Of all the Beat Generation writers, Jack Kerouac, author of the autobiographical beatnik bible, On the Road , is unequivocally the most famous. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922, to working class French-Canadian parents, Kerouac aspired to be a writer from a young age, though he was also a keen football player. Indeed, it ...
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.... the darkness is also returning!!!
cant wait for next week!!!
Must say though, this season has been coming home very strongly - Moffat and Davies are definitely the A-team. And Catherine Tate *must* have quelled the naysayers by now - I think she's been superb.
....perhaps I have watched too much Dr Who...
Nice blog!
Maybe she can put the ring on the doctors spare hand and the master will come back..
oh yes, how brilliant would that be?
No pics of John Simm in the media but it could be a well kept secret??
please note that i also suggested Stephen Fry for doctor who who is also a homosexual.
But even though your probably just going to delete this again after reading anyway (that is if you do bother reading it and can tolerate raving homphobes like myself) i'm going to write a few points i'd like to make as to why i really don't like Russel T Davis
When i think of doctor who i think of a bunch of posh, borderline psychotic old men who cover up daleks eyestalks with their hat and/or scarves. Doctor Who used to be silly and brilliant, and at the same time being a bit scary aswell.
(even with all the silly polystyrene costumes)
But yes kudos to RTD for his astounding ability of taking all of that out and replacing it with horse manure.
Admittedly yes there have been some great episodes in the series but most of those are episodes that weren't written by him. take the library for instance. that was brilliant. But then one of the next episodes "Midnight" was a bunch of people shouting at eachother constantly. I'm surprised Barbara Windsor wasn't in it threatening ppl with her "famwee".
Then theres torchwood.........
Yeah captain jack is great ZOMG face of boe! fantastic along with the rest of the christopher eccleston series was fantastic. but then. when a shows second episode is an alien that takes on a host and shags people to death it can't mean very good things. It sounds like the story behind a bad porno.
oh dear went on a bit anyway yes i respect you for defending your sexuality but i wasn't attacking it. I have nothing against homosexuals two of my close friends are and another is TV (transvestite not television). all i'm saying is. Is that RTD can write a really good season finale (except for turning the doctor into smeagle from LOTR that was wrong) i'm just hoping he doesn't balls this up by having an army of evil alien tits and willys escape from the holding cells at torchwood.
Leaving Russell T Davies' weight and sexuality aside, there's a couple of points you make which I think are worth discussing.
You say that Doctor Who used to be scary, silly and brilliant. I think that it still is. One of the criticisms levelled at the new Who is that it's too silly (eg farting Slitheen) but it's a kids' show after all, and kids find fart jokes hugely funny. Australian author Andy Griffiths' success is indicative of that.
Obviously we disagree with what makes a good episode, as I thought 'Midnight' was a wonderfully tense yet simple and very effective episode; a classic locked room mystery given an SF twist. So what if it's "a bunch of people shouting at each other constantly"? I find angry, shouting people frightening in the extreme (it's one of the things that makes John Carpenter's The Thing still so effective), but perhaps you don't. Each to their own. :-)
As for your criticisms of Torchwood - yep, I agree that episode 1.2 was crap, but it wasn't written by RTD - the show's chief writer Chris Chibnall was responsible for that particular episode.
And while Torchwood season one was hit and miss, there were also been some absolute knockout eps - 'Ghost Machine' for instance, and 'Out of Time'; while season two has been both stronger and more consistent.
What it comes down to, I think, is that you just don't like RTD. That's cool. I do. Let's agree to disagree, shall we?
[smacks forehead]