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[rynne]

I don't imagine Doctor Who has suddenly got enough money to move to London, so now I guess Moffat is okay with leaving his kids for a long time or moving them to Cardiff. Damn, I was hoping that would continue to prevent Moffat from taking over. Oh well.

This is actually pretty ironic. Just yesterday I was looking at some of the Supernatural misogyny discussion and being slightly smug that my show is really pretty awesome with women. I really hope that doesn't change with Moffat, that he can keep his views from influencing the show. Well, too much, since I doubt he'd hold those views if he didn't think they were right, and if he thinks they're right, he'd have no problem pushing them onto the show. Gah.

Moffat has written some pretty awesome episodes (excepting Girl in the Fireplace), and I am cautiously looking forward to the upcoming episodes. I'm not convinced of his ability to follow on from established character development and emotional continuity, but I think things will actually be easier with him as showrunner rather than just a one-story-per-season writer. Moffat likes telling his story more than going along with other people's stories, which is where a lot of the disconnect comes from, and if the entire thing is his story, then it'd be harder for him to fall out of sync. Of course, there's always being out of sync with the Doctor's previous emotional development, which leaves me actually hoping that David Tennant is not doing S5. If Moffat gets to start over with a brand new Doctor, he won't have to deal with Ten's emotional arc, and he won't have a chance to mess it up.

This news also makes me glad that I'm already pretty convinced that this season is the last of Rose we'll see in the show. Now I'm really, really hoping that S4 will end with the Doctor and Rose off into the sunset like Seven and Ace at the end of Survival, that they live her life together, and when the specials start, the Doctor is more emotionally stable for having had her. The specials maybe emphasize how good she was for him while gradually phasing mention of her out, and Moffat gets to start without having to deal with that relationship. I think that'd make the most sense, since I doubt Moffat loves emo!Doctor the way RTD does, and I rather think he'd like to make the Doctor more like he was in the Classic series. Then we can have Rose's memory, and the Doctor can move on.

I'm also going to be glad that, the way my obsessions run, usually lasting only two or three years, by the time Moffat starts I likely won't be as invested in the show as I am now. :p

Basically, I'm going to be...cautious. Right now I'm really reminded of how The West Wing was never quite as good once Aaron Sorkin left (also after four seasons), so I'm just going to have to wait and see.

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[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

There's no power on this earth that would leave me wanting Tennant to leave, BUT! I do hope that RTD uses his finals days to wrap up the Rose relationship, end it, and leave Ten in a good and happy place, like you said, with the sunset and all. But I really really don't want Tennant to leave. Ever.

Unless he's leaving to come to New York and, you know, do theatre here. And marry me.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

I actually rather doubt Tennant will leave. I mean, if the BBC was so eager to keep him that they were willing to do specials while he does Hamlet, I don't think they'll let him go so easily. And David still seems to love this job, so I'm not sure he'd want to leave.

I do sorta want him to, though. First because I don't want Moffat to potentially mess up Ten's character, and second, because I think the specials would be a good place to wrap up his character arc as a whole. But even if he stays, this news actually leaves me somewhat more confident that RTD will leave him in a good place, which hopefully means a favorable resolution with Rose.

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

You know, that's really true -- they won't let him go that easily. Not now that he's like the most popular guy in Europe or whatever. :)

(LET IT BE SO.)

I'm also more or less of the opinion that as long as the Rose story has been wrapped up, there isn't much you CAN do to mess up Ten's arc, because if he's had resolution with her, he'll pretty much be a blank slate. Rose was Nine's life. Then Rose was Ten's life. Take off the rose-colored glasses (I am so sorry, I had to), and you have an entirely new Ten. I say let Moffat play, so long as Tennant gets to make it his own.