Re: RTD speaks

On 1 Apr, 15:26, "Nod" <N...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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| On 29 Mar, 23:59, "Nod" <N...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > "notthebbc" <notthe...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| > | It's just typical fan jealousy of a Who fan who made it bigtime (RTD).
| > | Simple as that.
| >
| > I assume you're talking about yourself there?
|
| Amusing that you slate others for being "Agamemnons" and revert to his
| "I know you are, but what am I?" fallback. Nothing wrong with having
| an opinion; however it is wrong to claim that that opinion is fact,
| that someone stating a different opinion is lying, and further that
| anyone agreeing with that opinion is somehow a toady. If that's not
| Aggy tactics, I don't know what is.
|
| Phil

If I was using Agatha tactics, I'd reply with.

TWAT!!!!!

notthebbc's standard response is basically - you're just a jealous fan - to
everything.

Can't say I've noticed.

The reason I think RTD talks a lot of *** is because I've read/seen most
of the interviews that he's given.

*shrug* Can't say I've been paying attention - I only read/watch
interviews for potential spoilers.

It's like the way he's now saying that it
was HIS idea to rest the show for a year. He only just remembered that
recently though.

Really? How do we know what the plan was? We only learned a few months
ago that the show wouldn't get a full fifth season, and rumours
abounding before that had RTD dropping the show altogether after
season 4. As far as I'm aware he never commented on the show's future
beyond S4 until recently (remember he once said he'd planned to bring
back Daleks in S1, Cybermen in S2, the Master in S3, and "something
else" in S4 - no comment on S5, which is probably where the 'he's
quitting' rumour came from in the first place). It seems entirely
tenable that he genuinely had planned to 'rest' the series (as he put
it) after S4 and scrambled lines of communication translated this into
"he's leaving/the show's being scrapped". The fact that since the show
started the idea that S4 was some sort of cutoff point has been doing
the rounds is difficult to dispute. We know Tenant's off to do Hamlet
next year - but did he arrange to do it then rather than, say, this
year or 2010 to fit RTD's schedule or vice versa? I'm seeing no very
good reason to doubt RTD on this one.

Julie Gardiner says that she feels that they're not ready to make Who in HD,
which is a much more honest answer.

It's the same answer to all intents and purposes. I don't know the
precise wording of what RTD is alleged to have said, but it boils down
to 'it's not practical'.

As to expense, I think the BBC would
throw a few more quid at the show to make up the difference in broadcasting
in HD.

Except that the BBC's in a budget crisis that's forced them to cut
back on even their most successful exports, like Natural History Unit
programming. Doctor Who may get more viewers, but domestic viewers
don't make the BBC money - you pay the licence fee whatever you watch.
If the BBC's cutting costs on its biggest moneyspinners - those made
for worldwide export - why would it add to Who's budget to allow it to
be shown in a format and on a channel that most of its viewers aren't
going to watch anyway? If I were a BBC exec, I'd regard making shows
in HD as a pretty low priority at present - most people don't have HD
sets, the signal keeps screwing up for those of us who do, and
screening in HD hasn't obviously given its HD shows an edge over non-
HD competition.

After all, they're forking out on cinema adverts these days. The cost
of that alone must be worth a couple of episodes these days.

It's the same trailer they show on TV, right? I don't see why it's any
more expensive for them to put it on the cinema as it is for any other
advertiser to put their trailers or ads up, since they get to reuse
it.

Phil
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