DW's canon is far more fixed, for one, despite its diversity
As a old!school fan I must point out- Blah! The idea of DW canon being fixed is actually rather amusing. There have been SO many continuity errors over the years, not to mention issues with time travel and paradoxes and mistakes about Gallifrey... and then there's the 100+ novels, which may or may not be taken as canon, plus the audio adventures, and the comics, and the novellas... really, DW canon is not fixed in any way. Superman canon and DW canon are fairly similar in that way :)
But I am a squeeful brit at your opinion of DW writers caring about their national icon better than the SV ones. Awww *hugs her country's DW writing team*
...Although, I personally have issues with RTD aka Rusty, because I've been known to disagree, quite a bit, with some of the directions he's taken the show in. He's actually influenced a fair bit by American shows like Buffy and Smallville (though he prefers Buffy apparently), and I think he's tried to make DW a bit too American, with the close close close up face shots and heavy, emphasised emotional moments (not to mention the 45min episode length, though these days there's not much you can do about that I suppose). And I'm still not entirely convinced this works with DW. But I guess that's my snobbish, old!school britishness coming out :p
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Date: 2007-06-21 10:43 pm (UTC)As a old!school fan I must point out- Blah! The idea of DW canon being fixed is actually rather amusing. There have been SO many continuity errors over the years, not to mention issues with time travel and paradoxes and mistakes about Gallifrey... and then there's the 100+ novels, which may or may not be taken as canon, plus the audio adventures, and the comics, and the novellas... really, DW canon is not fixed in any way. Superman canon and DW canon are fairly similar in that way :)
But I am a squeeful brit at your opinion of DW writers caring about their national icon better than the SV ones. Awww *hugs her country's DW writing team*
...Although, I personally have issues with RTD aka Rusty, because I've been known to disagree, quite a bit, with some of the directions he's taken the show in. He's actually influenced a fair bit by American shows like Buffy and Smallville (though he prefers Buffy apparently), and I think he's tried to make DW a bit too American, with the close close close up face shots and heavy, emphasised emotional moments (not to mention the 45min episode length, though these days there's not much you can do about that I suppose). And I'm still not entirely convinced this works with DW. But I guess that's my snobbish, old!school britishness coming out :p
Enough rant now. Sorry *blushes*