As always with this fandom, I defer to those with superior experience! But it seems that the DW canon is about as fixed as Star Trek's canon, which has all manner of continuity errors (The great Klingon makeover!) and the complication of novels and such, but they're all assumed to take place in more-or-less the same universe; we're on the Tenth Doctor, and the First Doctor was his first life. As opposed to Superman, which has been 'rebooted' several times, with history being entirely rewritten (the Kents are alive/dead/alive again; Lex Luthor is a mad scientist or a businessman, etc, etc.) to the point of the canonical multi-verses to explain the disaster!
As an American without much experience with British TV (mainly what BBC shows are brought over by PBS, what shows on Mystery! and Masterpiece Theater, mainly) I can't really judge RTD's American influence. Though it doesn't strike me as that much different from American shows, so I can see that point - it doesn't bother me because it's what I'm used to! (I do have to say that British actors are on average better than their American counterparts! Though I wonder if some of that is in how the shows are filmed; when watching the specials, it looks like many of the DW scenes are filmed all in one take, somewhat like a play, while American shows tend to be more piecemeal, film the wide shots and then reaction shots and then the f/x; I'd think the former method would be better for actors, if possibly more difficult to arrange...)
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Date: 2007-06-22 04:56 am (UTC)As an American without much experience with British TV (mainly what BBC shows are brought over by PBS, what shows on Mystery! and Masterpiece Theater, mainly) I can't really judge RTD's American influence. Though it doesn't strike me as that much different from American shows, so I can see that point - it doesn't bother me because it's what I'm used to! (I do have to say that British actors are on average better than their American counterparts! Though I wonder if some of that is in how the shows are filmed; when watching the specials, it looks like many of the DW scenes are filmed all in one take, somewhat like a play, while American shows tend to be more piecemeal, film the wide shots and then reaction shots and then the f/x; I'd think the former method would be better for actors, if possibly more difficult to arrange...)