Actually I thought the incidental music throughout that episode was dreadful. Hugely intrusive, to the point of obscuring the dialogue at times, and much of it (such as the pop music IMO) didn't enhance the drama at all.
KlaxonCow wrote:[No, what it is meant to imply is that if one has "it's for kids" emblazened across one's mind as some kind of "prime directive", while writing a script, then it almost invariably becomes highly contrived bullshit. Not only for adults but also for the kids.
Because you're preoccupied with putting in another contrived "monster of the week" for the kids, even when it's totally inappropriate to do so for the story. Because you're hesitating over making the storyline consistent and coherent, in case it's "too complicated" for the kids.
And, invariably, because adults who deliberately "write for kids", almost always write patronisingly down to them. Because adults see kids differently to how kids see themselves. Kids are cute-looking to adults, so stories for kids are often full of cute-looking animals and characters. Some kind of strange "cute-looking things must like other cute-looking things" rationale.
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and so on. How much would everybody be pissed if I'd have quoted your whole message.
But I totally agree. Please print that out and post to RTD c/o BBC Wales before he starts anymore Dr Who scripts for S4!!!!
Absolutely.
Theres far too much playing down to kids.
Also, its not like the last epp's were really particularly nice anyway.
Or do they think kids would miss the fact that all humans ultimately universaly agree to go back in time and sluaghter vaste numbers of people just for fun?
I was thinking all over the eppisode at least *some* of those spheres should have rebeled. Rather then a stupid dues-ex, a more physical solution based on that would have been better, imo.
