[ SECRET POST #2571 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2571 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Revenge]


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[Vatta's War - Trading in Danger]


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[Dirty Rotten Scoundrels]


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[Doctor Who]


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06.
[Sherlock]


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[Mass Effect]


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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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11. [tb2]


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12. [repeat]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #367.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

I'm not sure whether the kind of TV experience matters; what I've heard through the grapevine is that even though former EU authors like Paul Cornell and Rob Shearman wrote some of New Who's all-time best episodes, they got shut out of writing more scripts after it became a hugely successful BBC flagship show due to lack of experience writing for TV. I don't know whether it's truth or just speculation; if it's true, I don't know whether it's just the BBC being so insanely risk-averse that they shot themselves in the foot, or whether there were actual behind-the-scenes issues with rewrites or "unfilmable" scripts. So take it for what it's worth, i.e. not much, but a depressingly plausible explanation for some of the choices behind the current lineup of scriptwriters.

I'm all aboard the "Nick Briggs for Showrunner 2015" campaign. He's been executive producer at Big Finish for close on eight years now, he writes good scripts, unlike Moffat we know he can deal with managing long story arcs, he Knows People in all sorts of circles relating to the show, and he's been involved in the actual TV stuff (even if only as a voice actor) since the beginning of the reboot. I'm just pretty pessimistic about his actual chances given that he's never produced for TV--I think Coupling did more towards getting Moffat the job than all the fan-favorite episodes on earth.

I was actually really surprised to hear that Chris Chibnall was behind Broadchurch, because his track record on Doctor Who is so dire. *g* He's okay at monster-of-the-week episodes with no pretentions of being anything else (42, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship), but I've disliked to outright loathed all his attempts at tackling anything more substantial. And I love Gatiss' enthusiasm, but he cannot pace or structure a story to save his life, not even on the level of a single episode. He might make a better showrunner than Moffat at this point, but that says more about how out-of-control Moffat's problems have become--it amounts to "Gatiss might suck less, and in ways less likely to bore or alienate his audience."