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The day before...
Dec. 23rd, 2014 02:08 pmThe tree is standing and decorated, the APs are in dire need to relax, the cats are eyeing the tree speculatively, last minute issues keep coming up: in short: I'm back in Bamberg for Christmas. :)
This will not make for much online presence in the next few days, though I hope to post my nativity scenes photos like every year, and of course am so looking forward to Yuletide. Among many alluring prospects: 13 new Penny Dreadful stories to read!
Meanwhile, the radio version of Good Omens is up and about even for non Brits like yours truly to listen to, thank you, BBC. It's as delightful a hoot I hoped for so far.
Also entertaining: Paul Cornell about Doctor Who fandom , which of course includes the writers. I agree with many of his points, but on the less serious side, I get a kick out of him mentioning his internalized Russell T. Davies as editor, as in this paragraph:
This emotional conservatism, expressed in smaller, less ethically important ways, is a trait I recognise in myself, something I have to fight against to keep myself going. I think several creators of Doctor Who over the decades have instinctively realised that that particular fan gene is in opposition to creativity, and have therefore set their faces against it, sometimes too much. There are also those who’ve gone too far the other way. To be a good writer, you have to smash things up. To make great Doctor Who, especially, you have to destroy something someone values with every step. Those footsteps of destruction will, in a few years, be cast in bronze and put on a plinth for the next great story to destroy. Doctor Who lives because of that process boiling away in its cells. (Metaphors all over the place, fix it in the next draft please, love, internal Russell.)
This will not make for much online presence in the next few days, though I hope to post my nativity scenes photos like every year, and of course am so looking forward to Yuletide. Among many alluring prospects: 13 new Penny Dreadful stories to read!
Meanwhile, the radio version of Good Omens is up and about even for non Brits like yours truly to listen to, thank you, BBC. It's as delightful a hoot I hoped for so far.
Also entertaining: Paul Cornell about Doctor Who fandom , which of course includes the writers. I agree with many of his points, but on the less serious side, I get a kick out of him mentioning his internalized Russell T. Davies as editor, as in this paragraph:
This emotional conservatism, expressed in smaller, less ethically important ways, is a trait I recognise in myself, something I have to fight against to keep myself going. I think several creators of Doctor Who over the decades have instinctively realised that that particular fan gene is in opposition to creativity, and have therefore set their faces against it, sometimes too much. There are also those who’ve gone too far the other way. To be a good writer, you have to smash things up. To make great Doctor Who, especially, you have to destroy something someone values with every step. Those footsteps of destruction will, in a few years, be cast in bronze and put on a plinth for the next great story to destroy. Doctor Who lives because of that process boiling away in its cells. (Metaphors all over the place, fix it in the next draft please, love, internal Russell.)
