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The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Dec. 26th, 2011 01:46 pm( spoilers - not that anything particularly interesting or unexpected happens in this episode that one could spoil for )
Just generally I wish New Who would stop trying to pander to its audience (creepy monsters! strong women! little kids! we KNOW you like this stuff) so much and just tell genuinely good stories. I know the temptation - sometimes I sit down and think, "I'm going to write a really popular story that everyone in fandom will love, because fandom loves Ten/Simm and BDSM and OOC fluff and double rainbows and the Doctor saying "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" a lot" but it never works because this isn't how you tell a good story. Or let me put it this way: even if you REALLY love chocolate, you can't bake a chocolate cake without flour and eggs and salt and baking powder to keep it all together and make it rise.
Just generally I wish New Who would stop trying to pander to its audience (creepy monsters! strong women! little kids! we KNOW you like this stuff) so much and just tell genuinely good stories. I know the temptation - sometimes I sit down and think, "I'm going to write a really popular story that everyone in fandom will love, because fandom loves Ten/Simm and BDSM and OOC fluff and double rainbows and the Doctor saying "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" a lot" but it never works because this isn't how you tell a good story. Or let me put it this way: even if you REALLY love chocolate, you can't bake a chocolate cake without flour and eggs and salt and baking powder to keep it all together and make it rise.
