RTD's SFX Interview
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mtemplar_ficApparently, RTD has always known just how he's going to off David Tennant's tenth Doctor.
More news on the Doctor Who specials this year, including more on the story arc that will link them all. The good? There will be four specials. The bad? There'll be a BIG gap between the Easter one and the others.
From SFX:
That’s right. The tenth doctor is doomed. No two ways about it. Russell T. Davies is prepping his poison pen and making ready to polish off David Tennant’s tenth Doctor. Is the producer sad about this development? No. In fact from his recent chat with SFX Magazine, you’d get the distinct impression that he is rubbing his hands together in anticipation about what he promises will be a big end to his and David Tennant’s time on the series.
Like we’ve all come to expect, the Doctors eventual demise is going to be built up over the course of the four television specials, the first of, which will premiere over Easter Weekend, and Davies was more than happy to guide readers through how the BBC hopes to broadcast the four specials, and give some clues about them.
“There’s the Easter one and then a big gap, and then the other three are going to go out around Christmas time/end of the year. It ends in a two parter. There’s a very strong link between the last three specials. It’s not a three parter, but there’s a strong connection - as we head towards the ending it gets thematically bigger and bigger. Everyone knows that David’s going, so you start to write that into it. It’s not like a giant spider suddenly turns up and kills him out of the blue, but even in Planet Of The Spiders his death was written into it quite properly. So there’s a feel of that to it.
“Everyone knows where the story is heading, especially with Matt Smith being everywhere. It’s nice actually - we play with that.”
When asked about the changeover between himself and incoming producer Stephen Moffat, Davies revealed that he’d read Moffat’s first script and said that it has a very strong beginning for Matt Smith’s Doctor. As to any regular conversations between himself and Moffat, the only thing they’ve discussed is how Tennant will regenerate into Smith.
“Mine will end and his will start,” says Russell T. Davies about the transition of his specials into Moffat’s first season “and his is a big, bold, brand new start, and it very much powers under its own steam. It’s simple, really. There’s a new man and off we go.”
As many observant Doctor Who fans will know, there have been hints about the tenth Doctor’s death threaded through the fourth season, specifically in Planet Of The Ood when they tell him, ‘Your song is ending’ - which is something that Davies says has been haunting The Doctor somewhat. Much like we’ve all come to expect, the Tenth Doctors demise has been something which Davies has had in mind for quite some time.
“The details have changed - who’s where, and the geography of it,” Davies tells SFX. “But yes, I always knew. There’s only one way to do it, really. It’s there in my head. If I could just put a wire into my head it would be on the paper now. Literally, stage direction by stage direction I know what happens. I think it’s going to be a brilliant piece of television. And let’s be honest, David is one of the hugest stars in the land, and his Doctor has been a massive figure for an entire generation. So in its way it’s a piece of television history - it’s not the invention of colour [laughs], but you’ll have eight - year - olds remembering it just like we remember the regeneration’s forever. I love that, and I know exactly how to do it.
“I honestly think I’ve got it right. It’s everything that the Doctor should do, that the series should do. Oh god, I can’t wait to write it! I’ll be so happy!”
Original article here: http://scifipulse.net/?p=6378#more-6378
More news on the Doctor Who specials this year, including more on the story arc that will link them all. The good? There will be four specials. The bad? There'll be a BIG gap between the Easter one and the others.
From SFX:
That’s right. The tenth doctor is doomed. No two ways about it. Russell T. Davies is prepping his poison pen and making ready to polish off David Tennant’s tenth Doctor. Is the producer sad about this development? No. In fact from his recent chat with SFX Magazine, you’d get the distinct impression that he is rubbing his hands together in anticipation about what he promises will be a big end to his and David Tennant’s time on the series.
Like we’ve all come to expect, the Doctors eventual demise is going to be built up over the course of the four television specials, the first of, which will premiere over Easter Weekend, and Davies was more than happy to guide readers through how the BBC hopes to broadcast the four specials, and give some clues about them.
“There’s the Easter one and then a big gap, and then the other three are going to go out around Christmas time/end of the year. It ends in a two parter. There’s a very strong link between the last three specials. It’s not a three parter, but there’s a strong connection - as we head towards the ending it gets thematically bigger and bigger. Everyone knows that David’s going, so you start to write that into it. It’s not like a giant spider suddenly turns up and kills him out of the blue, but even in Planet Of The Spiders his death was written into it quite properly. So there’s a feel of that to it.
“Everyone knows where the story is heading, especially with Matt Smith being everywhere. It’s nice actually - we play with that.”
When asked about the changeover between himself and incoming producer Stephen Moffat, Davies revealed that he’d read Moffat’s first script and said that it has a very strong beginning for Matt Smith’s Doctor. As to any regular conversations between himself and Moffat, the only thing they’ve discussed is how Tennant will regenerate into Smith.
“Mine will end and his will start,” says Russell T. Davies about the transition of his specials into Moffat’s first season “and his is a big, bold, brand new start, and it very much powers under its own steam. It’s simple, really. There’s a new man and off we go.”
As many observant Doctor Who fans will know, there have been hints about the tenth Doctor’s death threaded through the fourth season, specifically in Planet Of The Ood when they tell him, ‘Your song is ending’ - which is something that Davies says has been haunting The Doctor somewhat. Much like we’ve all come to expect, the Tenth Doctors demise has been something which Davies has had in mind for quite some time.
“The details have changed - who’s where, and the geography of it,” Davies tells SFX. “But yes, I always knew. There’s only one way to do it, really. It’s there in my head. If I could just put a wire into my head it would be on the paper now. Literally, stage direction by stage direction I know what happens. I think it’s going to be a brilliant piece of television. And let’s be honest, David is one of the hugest stars in the land, and his Doctor has been a massive figure for an entire generation. So in its way it’s a piece of television history - it’s not the invention of colour [laughs], but you’ll have eight - year - olds remembering it just like we remember the regeneration’s forever. I love that, and I know exactly how to do it.
“I honestly think I’ve got it right. It’s everything that the Doctor should do, that the series should do. Oh god, I can’t wait to write it! I’ll be so happy!”
Original article here: http://scifipulse.net/?p=6378#more-6378
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:24 am (UTC)Because I'm upset to see Ten Go... I really am... but... GOD I love the way it's inevitably going to be cracky!awesome.
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 01:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 12:29 am (UTC)I don't want Ten to go away *cries*
And he's laughing at my pain!
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 01:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 12:30 am (UTC)I have such weird mixed feelings about it. This is the first time I'll actually be watching a regeneration while being part of fandom - and not having to catch up on episodes. :) It has a strange bittersweet feel to it.
Still, I'm looking forward to it, and I hope it works as Davies wants it to.
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:56 am (UTC)I remember being floored when Tom Baker's Doctor regenerated into Peter Davison. I had NO idea about that part of the show! I think I ran around for about an hour or two after freaking out about the entire thing.
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:32 am (UTC)Obviously the last episode will be a musical and the Tenth Doctor will regenerate while tap dancing and signing.
Yes. This would be very RTD.
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Date: 2009-03-17 12:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 01:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 05:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 01:01 am (UTC)And I'm guessing tripping over a brick. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-17 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 03:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 03:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 04:10 pm (UTC)I'M IN A BLODDY LIBRARY!!!
*begins to cry with laughter because can't actually laugh out loud*
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Date: 2009-03-17 04:17 pm (UTC)*grins* I think RTD will do better.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually tears up when giggling herself silly!
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Date: 2009-03-17 05:50 pm (UTC)Oh how I needed to cackle and whoop like a Hyena but was resorted to snorting like a Horse.
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Date: 2009-03-17 07:03 pm (UTC)*SNERK*
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Date: 2009-03-17 11:42 pm (UTC)Ah thank-you so much I needed both of these.
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Date: 2009-03-17 01:37 am (UTC)It's awfully annoying that we're having to go from Easter to Christmas without a thing, though. They could've done quarterly specials and not left a big gap, and we wouldn't all feel so deprived! Even if the finale were a two-parter around Christmas and New Year's, a nice Fall special (even a cliffhangery one!) would have been awesome.
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Date: 2009-03-17 02:09 am (UTC)There was some rumor about a Halloween special, but this appears to put the kabosh on that.
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Date: 2009-03-17 02:44 am (UTC)Still, if Donna got to live and remember being awesome (and that really shouldn't be too much to ask; it really pains me to think she was left worse off after JE than after TRB), I think I'd be happy about it.
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Date: 2009-03-17 03:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 11:55 am (UTC)I want to see this so BAD!!!
I don't want David to leave!!
*pouts*
He'd better go out in a blaze of glory.
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Date: 2009-03-17 03:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-03-17 03:39 pm (UTC)RTD is loving this. That whole joke about tripping over a brick in made me laugh, but I think it will get a wee bit old if they keep doing things like that.
He'll be sacrificing himself for someone, or a group of people, but he better go out on a fabulous line RTD!!!!!
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Date: 2009-03-17 04:20 pm (UTC)but he better go out on a fabulous line RTD!!!!!
How about 'Coming, Rose....'? *grins*