I think the fans are perhaps more clever than Moffat.
It's rather like picking out the visual symbology of Series 5, without proper understanding of the actual production hierarchy of DW.
We forget about the individual writers, the directors, the cinematographers and the art department. Moffat doesn't have the godlike control some fans speculate he has. Many of the choices are left up to the present director and downward.
Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.
I think there's a time for everything, but I've always leaned toward tragedy, rather than comedy. I crave Hamlet more than As You Like It. Some of the best comedies I know are those screaming with laughter at the darkness. Those so horribly rooted in a shit pit of a world, that the only way to survive is to laugh. That I can understand. That's real to me.
Comedy that doesn't reflect the reality of the world is insubstantial.
I actually just finished relistening to Matt Smith on the Nerdist podcast. He had talked about how much he loved Peter Sellers' dark sense of humor and then moved on to the darkness of the Doctor:
Because that's what interests me as the Doctor, actually. Look at the blood on the man's hand. Nine-hundred years—countless, very selfish choices. And he's literally blown planets up, his own race. I mean, that's all on his hands. Which is why I think he has to make silly jokes and wear a fez. . . because if he didn't, he'd hang himself.
That's the sort of humor I crave. Tragicomedy. Why have one, when you can have both?
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Date: 7 Dec 2010 06:28 am (UTC)I think the fans are perhaps more clever than Moffat.
It's rather like picking out the visual symbology of Series 5, without proper understanding of the actual production hierarchy of DW.
We forget about the individual writers, the directors, the cinematographers and the art department. Moffat doesn't have the godlike control some fans speculate he has. Many of the choices are left up to the present director and downward.
Stephen Fry twitted the following article about the role of comedy and its importance and why the modern novel is dying from an angst overdose and I think I am in love with it but am having far too many thoughts about it to say anything coherent now, so I'll just leave this here: Divine Comedy.
I think there's a time for everything, but I've always leaned toward tragedy, rather than comedy. I crave Hamlet more than As You Like It. Some of the best comedies I know are those screaming with laughter at the darkness. Those so horribly rooted in a shit pit of a world, that the only way to survive is to laugh. That I can understand. That's real to me.
Comedy that doesn't reflect the reality of the world is insubstantial.
I actually just finished relistening to Matt Smith on the Nerdist podcast. He had talked about how much he loved Peter Sellers' dark sense of humor and then moved on to the darkness of the Doctor:
Because that's what interests me as the Doctor, actually. Look at the blood on the man's hand. Nine-hundred years—countless, very selfish choices. And he's literally blown planets up, his own race. I mean, that's all on his hands. Which is why I think he has to make silly jokes and wear a fez. . . because if he didn't, he'd hang himself.
That's the sort of humor I crave. Tragicomedy. Why have one, when you can have both?