I'm so conflicted . . .

[promethia_tenk]

Apparently Moff is adapting The Time Traveller's Wife for HBO. Do not know if want? It's intellectual incest at the very least.

This feels vaguely like a joke. Is it April and I didn't notice? No, Variety believes it too, apparently.

I suppose I should finally get around to reading that thing . . .

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[elisi]

I once picked it up in a bookshop and read the first page? I can't remember it though.

[promethia_tenk]

I had a vague intention of reading it for years but have basically been avoiding it because I didn't want it to mess with Doctor Who. I've since borrowed to from a friend a couple months ago and it has been sitting around, not getting read. Because I don't want it to mess with Doctor Who.

*sigh*

I mean, there's no way I'm not watching the show, so I'd better get on with reading the thing.

[elisi]

Hmmm.

Let me know.

[owlboy]

I saw someone on Tumblr compare it to having Cabernet Sauvignon with your steak. It's predictable cuz it works

[promethia_tenk]

THE THIRD PART OF THE INTERVIEW IS UP:

https://youtu.be/styqnGNTffM

I'M AT WORK I CAN'T WATCH IT. *cries*

[promethia_tenk]

https://youtu.be/styqnGNTffM

[owlboy]

it took them like 6 months to upload that?

[promethia_tenk]

I'd given up all hope of ever seeing it, tbh. And it was the one I most wanted to hear because it's the era we've heard the last about (RIP Confidential).

[elisi]

Well my mother has juts made tea, and then I should probably go see someone AND we are visiting someone tonight... So I'll watch when I watch. I like to save things up anyway.

[greensword]

Stick with what you're good at, I guess?

[purplefringe]

I *looooove* The Time Traveller's Wife. It's been one of my favourite books since forever and I'm incredibly excited (not least from a vidding perspective) to see it done properly on TV. The book is so emotional and fascinating and wonderful, and the film version they did a few years ago was just...not. The impact it had on Moffat though can't really be understated...I mean he mentions TGitF in that article, but it's there throughout his entire tenure, from little Amelia intrigued by the man crash-landing in her garden (which literally happens in TTTW) right up to Bill waiting at the bottom of that spaceship, and the young First Doctor confronting his older self. It's there in all the Libraries and museums and artists that crop up everywhere in his tenure, esp in S5 (The Time Traveller's Wife is an artist (a red-headed artist at that!), the Time Traveller is a librarian, there's some really key scenes involving a museum, and being locked up in a library) and in lots of other small things.

I don't think reading it would mess with Doctor Who - it's a wonderful work of art in its own right (and one of the very, very few books that reliably makes me cry) - but I think you would undoubtedly notice all the things Moffat has consciously or unconsciously taken from it. But I don't think that's a bad thing.

[shadowkat]

Didn't they already make an unsuccessful movie out of it? I kept trying to read it, but never got into it.

[promethia_tenk]

I'm sorta like, aren't you bored of these themes yet? I'd wanna do something else. But, hey, I'm still gonna watch it.

[promethia_tenk]

Apparently. Maybe it will make a better TV show/mini-series? Most novels fit a little uncomfortably in the movie format.

[promethia_tenk]

Well, it's hard to say no to an endorsement like that. And I know lots of people love it. You've certainly made me more excited to give it a go.

I don't think reading it would mess with Doctor Who - it's a wonderful work of art in its own right (and one of the very, very few books that reliably makes me cry) - but I think you would undoubtedly notice all the things Moffat has consciously or unconsciously taken from it. But I don't think that's a bad thing.
I think that's part of why I've been putting it off, lol. I can tell it will be an emotional investment!

[shadowkat]

From what I read of it, and what people who had read it told me...yeah it would make a better tv show.

The plot is basically this -- a guy has the weird ability to shoot in and out of time. So his relationship with his wife is out of sequence. He meets her as a child, he meets her for the first time after they are married, etc. The River Song/Doctor Relationship is basically The Time Traveler's Wife for kids except with a lot more action and monsters. Also in DW the wife gets to Time Travel too.

It's not surprising the Moffat wants to do it.

[elisi]

HAVE SEEN.

[purplefringe]

Ha, well, I hope you do enjoy it! Will be v interested to know your thoughts as and when you do read it. Obviously it’s v much my personal taste, and I do seem to have a *thing* for long, meandering, epic stories where you can’t really summarise the plot but get super invested in the world and characters (see also: American Gods, Carter Beats The Devil, Perdido Street Station) but argh I love it so.