My friends are split.
Some Who fans are really looking forward to Season 5 of Doctor Who. They’re looking forward to Steven Moffat at the helm. They credit him with some of the best Dr Who episodes from new Who.
Other friends have nothing but a sense of dread. They don’t recognise Moffat as the Messiah. They fear that without RTD and the team that helped return Doctor Who to our screens that the show will loose its significance, its momentum and will crawl into blandness.
Do you find yourself in either of these camps?
Yesterday Geek Native posted some pictures of Matt Smith as Doctor Who in a football kick. These pictures were an affront to me. This is not the Doctor.
Another warning sign, perhaps, comes from Digital Spy and story from Dan French. The headline says it all “New Doctor Who like Twilight, Potter”. That’s right. There will be Twilight and Harry Potter inspired elements to the new Doctor Who.
These comments come from Piers Wenger via the Doctor Who Magazine. Wenger is working with Moffat and Beth Willis and he’s on record that they want to give the new series a “fairy-tale feel”.
Here are the quotes;
“We just wanted to make the show look as up-to-date as it possibly could,” Wenger explained. “One of the qualities in Steven’s writing, and one of Steven’s natural tendencies as a writer, is to write these strange, dark, glittering fairy tales.
“We wanted to give the look of the series a slightly more storybook, fairy-tale feel – within reason.”
He added: “It wasn’t about suddenly becoming Tim Burton, but it was finding a pinch of that, a pinch of Twilight, a pinch of Harry Potter – but it’s still absolutely, slap-bang, mainstream Doctor Who.”
So, I ask you, are you looking forward to series five, worried about it or are you – like me – caught between the two?
