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Post by nucleusofswarm on Aug 4, 2018 20:47:07 GMT
Except that's not what you're saying. And what did you expect anyway? Frost/Nixon? It's a BBC-handled interview on a BBC franchise.
In fact, you answered your own question with ''As, she is a BBC employee, she's not allowed to criticise.'', rendering this debate pointless since you already have your answer.
Begs the question, Why bother making it, if the interviewer can't criticise decisions. If you actually knew how interviews worked, you'd realize it's about open questions, designed to let the interviewee talk, that are divorced from personal biases. Interviews are not and never have been about criticism: even political ones can only pose a question, however specific and directed. They can't come out and say X or Y, because it's not the interviewer's job: they're reporters, not critics or analysts. |
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Post by ollychops on Aug 4, 2018 20:47:35 GMT
In fairness though, it wasn't that kind of interview - it was the showrunner bowing out with a retrospective look at his tenure. Any critical reflection was in his court depending on how candid he chose to be. For all the faults of his era, it has still been largely successful. He proved that there was life after RTD and Tennant in the series. He is after all on record as avoiding online forums as he found it hurtful to read the comments quite early on. What of the things you enjoyed since 2010 - surely the positives outweigh the faults which are over and done with? This was part two. Capaldi onward. Many bad decisions were made, and he wasn't pulled up on any. As daver said, it wasn't that kind of interview, it was a retrospective look at Moffat's time on the show, not to criticise him. If Moffat wants to be critical of his own work, that's fine but she wasn't there to call him out on any faults. And "many bad decisions" according to you. Just because you thought they were bad doesn't mean they were, or that everyone else thinks they're also bad. It's all subjective, after all. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2018 20:53:53 GMT
In fairness though, it wasn't that kind of interview - it was the showrunner bowing out with a retrospective look at his tenure. Any critical reflection was in his court depending on how candid he chose to be. For all the faults of his era, it has still been largely successful. He proved that there was life after RTD and Tennant in the series. He is after all on record as avoiding online forums as he found it hurtful to read the comments quite early on. What of the things you enjoyed since 2010 - surely the positives outweigh the faults which are over and done with? This was part two. Capaldi onward. Many bad decisions were made, and he wasn't pulled up on any. It's the Fan Show not the bloody Nuremberg Trials. |
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Aug 4, 2018 21:16:19 GMT
This was part two. Capaldi onward. Many bad decisions were made, and he wasn't pulled up on any. It's the Fan Show not the bloody Nuremberg Trials. Okay. David wins the thread. That got a snort of iced tea through my nose. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2018 21:16:29 GMT
If you want candid criticism from the inside, read Terrance Dick's most recent interview in DWM. He describes the shambles when he came onboard as assistant script editor during Season 6. With the Producer and Script Editor spending their working day with trips to the BBC bar, 'wet' lunches and the bar again, Terrance found himself holding the fort with scripts unfinished or uncommissioned. That's why we ended up with the likes of the Dominators & the Space Pirates, whilst he had to get Malcolm Hulke onboard as a friend to co-write the final 10 episodes as there was nothing planned. And thank god for that.
And yet to the hard core, it is a golden era compared to recent efforts. Lets appreciate the professionalism of Steven Moffatt and his team.
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Post by thethirddoctor on Aug 4, 2018 22:54:14 GMT
If you want candid criticism from the inside, read Terrance Dick's most recent interview in DWM. He describes the shambles when he came onboard as assistant script editor during Season 6. With the Producer and Script Editor spending their working day with trips to the BBC bar, 'wet' lunches and the bar again, Terrance found himself holding the fort with scripts unfinished or uncommissioned. That's why we ended up with the likes of the Dominators & the Space Pirates, whilst he had to get Malcolm Hulke onboard as a friend to co-write the final 10 episodes as there was nothing planned. And thank god for that. And yet to the hard core, it is a golden era compared to recent efforts. Lets appreciate the professionalism of Steven Moffatt and his team. Moffat does take longer to produce a series which has the full backing of the BBC, and a rather generous budget. |
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Post by sherlock on Aug 5, 2018 0:14:19 GMT
As a whole the interview is really quite comprehensive. Matters of controversy are brought up (The Paradigm Daleks, his tropes, allegations of it being hard to follow at times, heck even the split of Series 6), and Moffat's answers do seem quite candid.
His take on the Doctor is very interesting. The complete opposite to the Cartmel Masterplan/NA characterisation of "Time's Champion", but not quite Terrance Dicks' "never cruel or cowardly" man either.
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Post by glutamodo on Aug 5, 2018 0:54:31 GMT
Yes, exactly. If you want confrontation, it's more like a debate, not an interview. Interviewers just try to draw out their target to discuss things - heck, the best interviewers already know the answers, all they want is to lead the conversation into some form of engaging direction.
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 5, 2018 1:22:18 GMT
If you want candid criticism from the inside, read Terrance Dick's most recent interview in DWM. He describes the shambles when he came onboard as assistant script editor during Season 6. With the Producer and Script Editor spending their working day with trips to the BBC bar, 'wet' lunches and the bar again, Terrance found himself holding the fort with scripts unfinished or uncommissioned. That's why we ended up with the likes of the Dominators & the Space Pirates, whilst he had to get Malcolm Hulke onboard as a friend to co-write the final 10 episodes as there was nothing planned. And thank god for that. And yet to the hard core, it is a golden era compared to recent efforts. Lets appreciate the professionalism of Steven Moffatt and his team. Moffat does take longer to produce a series which has the full backing of the BBC, and a rather generous budget. Television has changed since then, though: the effects take longer to produce, actors who might appear in more than one episode need to be scheduled, there's a lot more platforms of media that need to be negotiated and there's also the scheduling - which is mentioned here - that needs to be addressed. |
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 5, 2018 1:25:53 GMT
I loved it: yes, it's produced through the official "organ" of the show but there's still a fair amount of candidness on the part of Mr Moffat who addresses some issues that concerned him, like casting, scheduling and availability of actors. What I'd love is a version of The Writer's Tale from his perspective, or a memoir. Writers talking about writing, whatever their medium, is often fascinating, especially when they are as enthusiastic about it as Moffat and RTD are.
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