tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post871578457333941732..comments2023-12-07T20:31:28.197-05:00Comments on Islands of Joy: Moffatt! Nooo!! Sørina Higginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-7759563781927378892014-02-06T13:00:28.735-05:002014-02-06T13:00:28.735-05:00Oh, you're good, Kat. I agree!Oh, you're good, Kat. I agree! Sørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-83897716539096259322014-02-04T18:54:57.691-05:002014-02-04T18:54:57.691-05:00Nice post, Sorina. I can concede some of your poin...Nice post, Sorina. I can concede some of your points, but I have to respond to a few which I think are flawed in conception:<br /><br />1) Though the opening Sherlock episode definitely has elements of fan service, I think it's more tongue-in-cheek than you give it credit for. It undercuts the fan-service of incorporating fan theories of how Sherlock survived the fall if they all turn out to be bizarre, fannish contrivances which are systematically lampshaded and generally made fun of. Fans are acknowledge but are also poked fun at. They are part of the narrative, but they don't run the show.<br /><br />2) The meeting of Doctors in the 50th Anniversary is a time-honored tradition embedded into the fabric of the show. Multi-Doctor stories have been an integral part of the story since the early 70s, so you have to go back much farther than Moffat for this particular piece of the puzzle. Also, I suggest that the multi-Doctor story is essential to the story as a visualization and literalization of the Doctor's thought process and character development over 400 years. Fun for fans, yes, but absolutely plot-critical and (I would argue) hugely consistent and artistic.<br /><br />3) Finally, the problem of Father's Day: If you're looking for consistency in DW, you're looking in the wrong place. DW has never played fair or consistently with the rule of time travel. In fact, Paul Cornell (the author of Father's Day) is a firm believer that there is no such thing as cannon in Doctor Who (his argument is here: http://www.paulcornell.com/2007/02/canonicity-in-doctor-who.html and another great argument is here: http://teatimebrutality.blogspot.com/2009/07/canon-and-sheep-shit-why-we-fight.html). <br /><br />Now, I do agree that Moffat has lately been getting carried away with his own ideas, bordering on wish fulfillment, and has often contradicted even his own recently-made decision with alarming regularity (in fact I argue this here: http://ravingsanity.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/breath-on-a-mirror-the-time-of-the-doctor-review/). However, I think some of this is a little more complicated than the issue of fanfic or fan input. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897264431916979846noreply@blogger.com