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又是一篇垃圾营销文:神秘博士第十一季从魔法特的错误中拯救本剧 Doctor Who Season 11 Saved The Show From Steven Moffat's Mistakes BY MATT MORRISON – ON DEC 19, 2018 The 11th season of Doctor Who saved the series from the mistakes of Steven Moffat's time as showrunner. Moffat is a polarizing figure among the Doctor Who fandom, beloved for having written some of the greatest episodes of all time and reviled for his excesses as an executive producer. Many of the changes to the show's formula during its latest season can be seen as direct responses to those excesses and a desperate attempt to save the series. Most Whovians would not deny that Moffat is a tremendous talent and that he accomplished many great things while acting as Doctor Who's showrunner. Nevertheless, most of Moffat's defenders would also not deny that the quality of the series under Moffat's leadership became more erratic as time went on. Towards the end of his tenure, Moffat became more concerned with revealing shocking twists and spinning epic sagas than simple, basic storytelling. The audience seems to have responded favorably to the changes since Chris Cibnall took over Doctor Who earlier this year. While some viewers have decried the new season for Jodie Whittaker's performance as the Doctor and complained that the new ensemble of companions is too large, most fans seem to approve of the changes. The fact that the show has begun receiving its highest ratings since before the Moffat era started speaks volumes as to the audience's opinion. As such, it seems appropriate to reassess the Moffat era before comparing it to the changes wrought by Chibnall. Fans were originally ecstatic when it was announced that Steven Moffat would be taking over as Doctor Who's showrunner in 2010. Serving as one of the show's writers since its revival in 2005, Moffat wrote some of the most beloved and critically acclaimed Doctor Who stories of the new series. His first four scripts - the two-part "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances," "The Girl In The Fireplace" and "Blink" - went on to win Doctor Who the Hugo Awardsfor Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for three years in a row. His creation of the character of Captain Jack Harkness also led to the spin-off series Torchwood. Unfortunately, it ultimately proved to be too much for Moffat to handle writing for the show and acting as the executive producer and script editor for a prolonged period. Moffat still managed to tell some tremendous tales during the fifth season, with his first story for Matt Smith's 11th Doctor, "The Eleventh Hour", being ranked by some as the greatest introduction to Doctor Who for new viewers ever written. The season 5 finale "The Big Bang" also drew high praise and inspired some critics to say that if Doctor Who was ever to come to an end, it should have come as Moffat wrote it, with the Doctor sacrificing himself to save all reality and existing forever more only as a child's memory of her imaginary friend. Things became progressively worse as Moffat became a victim of his own success. At the same time he became showrunner on Doctor Who, he also began producing Sherlock - a highly-acclaimed modernization of the classic Sherlock Holmes stories. Even with being limited to three episodes per season, each episode was the length of a feature-length film and plotted accordingly. Something had to give and many felt it was Moffat's work on Doctor Who. As Moffat's time on Doctor Who dragged on, his scripts and the series as a whole became more dependent on shocking twists, high concepts and ludicrous humor. The end results were decidedly mixed. Some enjoyed the revelation that the Doctor's future wife River Song was the grown-up daughter of his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams in "A Good Man Goes To War." By contrast, few enjoyed the farcical follow-up "Let's Kill Hitler," which seemed to have no point to it beyond the joke of sticking Hitler in a cupboard while Amy and Rory dealt with the revelation that their best friend from childhood was also their future daughter in another body. By the time of Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor, Moffat had ceased writing stories to fit the characters and began bending the characters to fit the season-long story arcs he crafted around the philosophical issues he wished to explore. Clara Oswald - The Impossible Girl who existed in multiple times - was not so much a character as she was a living mystery for the Doctor to solve and then a deus ex machina who could save the Doctor whenever he needed someone as clever as himself to get out of this week's jam. It is telling that Capaldi's Doctor seemed to suffer from an identity crisis as the show went on, first wondering if he was a good man and then changing personalities in successive seasons to accommodate new characterizations as an aging punk rocker and an eccentric professor. Chris Chibnall seemed to take the complaints about Moffat's later seasons to heart when he was crafting the stories, companions and new personality of the Doctor while writing season 11. The new season lacked an overall arc, though the finale "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos" did make use of the same villain as the premiere, "The Woman Who Fell To Earth." The season was also made entirely of one-shot stories, rather than the intricate two-parters that came to dominate Moffat's era as showrunner and extend simple ideas too far. The large ensemble of companions in Doctor Who season 11 seemed to have been created as a response to complaints that Moffat's stories often focused on the companions at the expense of the Doctor. With three new companions sharing her adventures, it was impossible for any one character to overshadow the Doctor the same way that Clara Oswald and Bill Potts often took over the 12th Doctor's stories. As for the new Doctor played by Jodie Whittaker, she proved herself to be a more upbeat and proactive Doctor than the brooding and depressive characters that the 11th and 12th Doctors truly were under their occasionally manic masks. This lent a sense of energy and urgency to the new season that was sorely needed after six seasons of Moffat's management. It would be fair to say that Doctor Who season 11 has broken free of the mold that Steven Moffat had made. Having accomplished that, the show now needs to see to its own future. This means restoring some of the elements of the show that were briefly sacrificed for the sake of streamlining it for the new production team and cast. The first step should be the restoration of season-long story arcs. While not every episode needs to tie into the larger story, there should be some sense of continuity as the season progresses toward a climax. For all the variety that Doctor Who season 11 delivered, it did feel a bit aimless at times and there was little sense of growth to the characters until the final episodes, where Graham and Ryan finally acknowledged their relationship as grandfather and grandson. On that note, Doctor Who season 12 should also find a greater role for Yaz. Of all the new companions, Yaz has gone the most undefined as a character. While several episodes have focused on her home life and her family history (including the excellent "Demons of the Punjab"), we still know surprisingly little about Yaz as a person beyond her firm commitment to serving her community and helping others. Yaz also hasn't been given an emotional arc to equal to the one shared by Graham and Ryan and she sorely deserves to have one when Doctor Who season 12 starts in 2020
这一季的很多报导包括自媒体的内容真的是让我看不懂 偶然看到一个叫screen rant的不知名网站排的Doctor Who: Ranking Each New Doctor's First Season 我们来看一下这个作者CRAIG ELVY对第五季和第十一季的评价: 第五季: Very few Doctor Who fans would dare suggest that Matt Smith wasn't a great Doctor. The young actor re-introduced a quirky, geeky side to the character that was largely absent in David Tennant's more heroic portrayal, but did so while exuding a wisdom far beyond his years. It was during Smith's tenure that Whobegan to take off on a more international level and the Eleventh Doctor would later go on to star in a number of classic stories. Unfortunately, things took a while to get going. With a new Doctor, a new companion in Amy Pond and Steven Moffat taking over as showrunner, 2010 was all-change in Doctor Who for the first time since the show's return. Things began brightly enough with solid season premiere "The Eleventh Hour", a story that introduced audiences to the new cast using Moffat's signature mix of action, humor and honoring history. Follow-up episode "The Beast Below", on the other hand, was roundly panned by fans and even Moffat himself, who openly counts the story among his weakest. While the following week's "Victory of the Daleks" was a big improvement, it's largely remembered for attempting to introduce the misguided Power Ranger Daleks, a gimmick long since abandoned. Happily, season 5 eventually kicked into gear, bringing back fan-favorite Moffat creation River Song, delivering the heartfelt "Vincent and the Doctor" and concluding with the thrilling double-header of "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang", by which point Matt Smith had really started to settle into his fez and bow-tie. 大概是说Matt Smith很好,The Eleventh Hour很好,后面两集不行,但是再后来很好。
独立报发了一篇非常丑陋的软文 Until recently, Doctor Who did not appeal to me. Daleks and the Tardis and Time Lords sounded hammy and naff and it all looked a bit am-dram whenever I tuned in. I didn’t get why adults were obsessed with a children’s programme. But then I heard that this latest series had pissed off Jeremy Clarkson so the time had come for a closer look. I quickly learnt that the current season, its 11th, included episodes about Rosa Parks, the Partition of India and witch trials. My interest was piqued. Already intrigued by the casting of the first female Doctor, I was told by a friend that queer characters and people of colour were woven into the narrative in a radical, normalising way, which would make a welcome difference to pretty much everything I have ever read and watched, so I decided to give it a go. Well, my name is Lucy and I’m a Whovian. From the off, I found this series refreshing. In the first episode, Ryan Sinclair, a 19-year old, is being taught to ride his bike by his grandmother and step-grandfather, a mixed-race couple. He has dyspraxia. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dyspraxic character on television. Jodie Whittaker soon entered as the Doctor and it was thrilling to watch a brilliant actor as the lead. Soon after, there was a brief aside in which Yaz and Ryan discussed their experience of being people of colour. “I get called a Paki when I’m sorting out a domestic or a terrorist when I’m coming home from the Mosque,” said Yaz. In later episodes, a niece’s wife was casually referred to, in a natural way, as it should be. It was gently groundbreaking. The latest episode, about a blind girl abandoned by a father who’s crossed over into a parallel universe to be with a lonely, conscious universe masquerading as his late wife, was superb. Although ratings for the series have been good, and critically it’s been praised, the backlash from people online has been fiery. Some complain that it’s trying to push a “social justice warrior” agenda or that it’s too preachy or worthy. The phrase “politically correct” is the most common criticism. Even The Jeremy Vine Show asked its viewers if Doctor Who had become “too politically correct”. In a recent interview with the Radio Times, stars Mandip Gill and Tosin Cole were asked to defend the series against claims of being “too PC”. “It makes me laugh, because having the words ‘too’ and ‘correct’ in the same sentence is really bizarre to me. How can you be too correct about something?” said Gill, who plays Yaz. When I see the phrase “politically correct” or “PC” I tend to roll my eyes and interpret it as a signifier of how a person feels about race, gender, sexuality or ecological issues. In my early years of journalism, I moderated comments at a Conservative newspaper website. “PC gone mad”, a very common epithet, was always shorthand for a tedious expression of disapproval at recycling, or a person of colour or a woman being given some kind of platform or attempt at equality. The history of the phrase is fascinating and too long and complex to go into here. It has been passed between left and right over the past century, to mean different things. Most recently, Donald Trump has manipulated it as a tool to stir up resentment, fear and division. “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,” he told journalist and broadcaster Megyn Kelly in 2015. Millions have lapped up his anti-PC efforts. His calls to ban Muslims from entering the United States, for example, were “not politically correct”, according to the President. Words have consequences, and, in the rise of populism, these ones certainly have had, so instead of writing it off, I wanted to delve deeper into the Doctor Who criticism and try to understand what these swathes of shocked people online were outraged by, and if it had anything valuable to say about how people feel about changing societal and cultural norms. What does “politically correct” actually mean? The dictionary helped, but only a bit. The Cambridge Dictionary says, “Someone who is politically correct believes that language and actions that could be offensive to others, especially those relating to sex and race, should be avoided.” Collins defines it as “demonstrating progressive ideals, especially by avoiding vocabulary that is considered offensive, discriminatory or judgmental, esp. concerning race and gender.” It didn’t quite explain the barb of the phrase. The mystery remained. I read Clarkson’s column, which took issue with the Rosa Parks episode and a male character who gives birth. “The Doctor has witnessed a man giving birth and has visited a civil rights activist in Alabama in the 1950s,” he wrote. “The BBC really is having a hard time with being neutral these days.” The word neutral speaks volumes. What is neutral? Is it the straight, white, English man? How is it not neutral to base episodes on the real-life stories of people of colour who changed history? To solve this riddle, I read comments and watched vlogs of people complaining about the series and this is what I found. People felt that equality, diversity and civil rights, otherwise known as political correctness, was being shoved down their throats. That it was synonymous with control; that the BBC was trying to drive an ulterior agenda and impose an ideology onto fans. Other complaints were that the witch hunt episode rubbed in their faces that women weren’t equal to men 400 years ago. There was a lot of swearing and anger and concern that the Rosa Parks episode was going to upset the people of the United States by being too “social justice warrior”. Which people? I tried to understand the grown adults who use this phrase seriously. I really did. Is the outrage a fear of being silenced themselves? Or a toddler-like tantrum at the way society is changing? What is the threat, or the fear? The other? The discomfort of having prejudice confronted? I suppose normalising diversity and equality is always going to make some people feel uncomfortable, when it veers away from their normal and their neutral. It’s a strange furore, because Doctor Who was originally conceived as an educational show so episodes about the civil rights movement and the Partition of India are not out of place with its creator Sydney Newman’s idea. Also it’s often, bar a few missteps, been politically aware. As the actor Nicholas Pegg said on Twitter, in response to a post decrying a new Doctor Who fights social justice issues rather than Daleks, “he gave a famous speech about the end of racism (Ark in Space, 1975), started a workers’ revolution by quoting Marx (The Sun Makers, 1977), overthrew the galactic slave trade (Warriors’ Gate, 1981), and never met the Daleks or Cybermen in the 80s.” I’m glad I gave the season a chance. It’s an exciting moment when one of the oldest, and most “establishment” programmes has the courage and imagination to include and make visible the previously excluded. It makes for a much more interesting world.
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