Feb 23, 2025
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE WOULD HAVE HAD JESSICA LOCKWOOD ON SCREEN AT THE BEGINNING OF EPISODE 1 IF THE SERIES HADN'T BEEN CANCELLED ? AND LOCKWOOD AS A CHILD ? AND JESS'S DEATH ? NETFLIX I'M IN YOUR WALLS...
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE WOULD HAVE HAD JESSICA LOCKWOOD ON SCREEN AT THE BEGINNING OF EPISODE 1 IF THE SERIES HADN'T BEEN CANCELLED ? AND LOCKWOOD AS A CHILD ? AND JESS'S DEATH ? NETFLIX I'M IN YOUR WALLS...
Feelings about Bringing Back Moffat For RTD2 + Other Writers I Think Should Get the Chance
Whelp, just found out that Steven Moffat is going to be writing an episode of Fifteen and I'm just like...eh? about the whole prospect. Like, not as terrified as I once might have been but like...hoping he grew as a writer. Because even though I vastly prefer his one-offs to his overarching season ideas...let's not pretend that you couldn't see the warning signs looking back. The focus on either women as mothers (Doctor Dances) women companions as operating in service/deference to the Doctor (Empty Child/Blink) or women as the Time Traveller's Wife (Girl in the Fireplace, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead). Empty Child/Doctor Dances, Blink, and Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead are all fantastic episodes and I think Blink is the strongest one-off (though let's all remember that the ending was suggested by Gatiss, not Moffat) though I will adore Empty Child/Doctor Dances until I die (though let's not forget that Jack Harkness was an RTD invention).
I really hope he learned his lessons through writing latestage Clara and Bill as companions, but I'm honestly just as scared of his racial undertones as am of RTD's. Let's not forget that both of the black companions under Moffat (Bill&Danny) were both dehumanized/turned into Cybermen in order to service Clara and the Doctor/Missy's arcs (though Bill's ending is far better handled in terms of giving Bill her own ending than Danny's, imo), just as RTD really callously handled Martha's treatment, especially in historical episodes. That is not to say that I don't have some hope due to how Bill's race was handled in Thin Ice, but let's just say I'm cautious about getting super excited like some people are.
All of which is to say...I want Toby Whithouse to write a one-off in the RTD2 Era. Or many. I want his examination of the fucked-up and complicated psychological aspects of the Doctor/Companion relationship and even the Doctor themself (I mean he is the one who wrote School Reunion, God Complex, A Town Called Mercy, Under the Lake/Before the Flood, and Vampires of Venice).
ALSO more women and writers of color. I want to see what kind of new voices in sci-fi can be brought to the table and explore more aspects of their experiences, especially as it pertains to historical/future episodes. I'm done with pretending that Demons of the Punjab wasn't one of the best episodes of Doctor Who, and that was specifically because an Indian writer (Vinay Patel) was brought in to write it. (Also, can we see Vinay back as well? He also wrote Fugitive of the Judoon which was another banger. He's also really good at exploring character feelings/implications of time travel/memory.) I also think that Joy Wilkinson, who wrote the Witchfinders, could be a fun choice as well. I really liked the Witchfinders and I'm curious to see how she might tackle a subject matter like that again.
Do You Know “The Sweet Science of Bruising”?
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Lockwood & Co. (Season 1)
TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023
Lockwood & Co. (Season 1, 2023, UK)
Directors: Joe Cornish, William McGregor & Catherine Morshead
Writers: Joe Cornish, Joy Wilkinson, Ed Hime & Kara Smith
Mini-review:
I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected based on the first teaser! It's fast paced, engaging and very fun, even if it's far from perfect. Sometimes the pace and the developments feel kinda rushed, and it's obvious from the very first episode that the show needed a bigger budget than the one they were given. But I didn't have much problem brushing that off, cause the three characters at the core of it all are just that good. It's a combination of personalities that always works well and the cast pulls it off with great chemistry. I really do think this aspect is what carries the show and makes it so watchable, regardless of its flaws. By the end of it I was actually itching to find and read the books, but I think I'll wait to see whether this gets a second season or not.
Listen to Audio Extracts of the Upcoming Doctor Who Target Novelisations
Listen to Audio Extracts of the Upcoming #DoctorWho Target Novelisations
Want to get a little preview of the upcoming Target novelisations of Doctor Who adventures? Is the Pope Catholic?! Seven books will be released on 11th March, and BBC Audio has unveiled a video with extracts from four of these: The TV Movie by Gary Russell, with the Seventh and Eighth Doctors; Rob Shearman’s Dalek with the Ninth Doctor; Eleventh Doctor story, The Crimson Horror, written by Mark…
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New Doctor Who writers and directors announced!
Directors: Sallie Aprahamian, Jamie Childs, Jennifer Perrott and Mark Tonderai. Writers: Malorie Blackman, Ed Hime, Vinay Patel, Pete McTighe and Joy Wilkinson.
Doctor Who: The Witchfinders (11.8, BBC, 2018)
"You wanna know the secrets of existence? Start with the mysteries of the heart. I can show you everything, if you stop being afraid of what you don't understand!"
The next Doctor Who episode I'm most excited by after 'Demons of Punjab' is 'The Witch Finders' written by Joy Wilkinson.
From Gallifreyan Newsroom:
In an interview on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4, screenwriter and playwright Joy Wilkinson revealed the name of the episode of Doctor Who Series 11 she penned as The Witch Finders.
Wilkinson referred to Jodie Whittaker’s performance as “absolutely luminous.”
An episode known to feature witches was filmed during the third filming block of Doctor Who directed by Sallie Aprahamian.
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I can't wait! Especially with Joy Wilkinson's description of Jodie and with my favorite series 11 director (so far) at the helm too!