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Why is everyone on my rlist not shrieking about this? So far I have only seen one excited post, and that is ridiculous considering how many of us care about Doctor Who. But perhaps not everyone has seen it? So it is linking time!
Link: Q&A Transcript for the the Doctor Who NYC Primer screening! It is in fact technically spoiler-free; we mostly learn that Karen is on Team Fez and Matt is on Team Stetson, and that Moffat is still as evil as ever, and that Alex knows more than everyone else.
Excited flailing: an excerpt of the transcript:
Audience member #3: Whether or not this was ever an idea—what are your thoughts on Benedict Cumberbatch as the Master?
Steven Moffat: Well, as if my life weren’t complicated enough already! Uh listen, if John Simm could hear you, you would not live another hour. [audience laughter] I shouldn’t tell you this… but I’m going to. After [“The End of Time”] he’d been saying, “I think now that David’s left as the Doctor, I would have to leave the Master,” and he pulled me aside and said, “I didn’t mean that! Look at me, I’m fit, I’m okay!” So Benedict has to wait in line probably.
I don't even know how to deal with how much delight this gives me. On the one hand, I am quite enamored of the idea that Eleven gets his own Master for maximum delicious paralleling, but on the other, it's John fucking Simm and he can act like nobody's business; I'm sure that given the material he could easily do an escaped-from-the-Time-War Master who echoes and compliments Eleven in interesting ways. And there's no way I'd ever say no to more John Simm.
It does make me wonder when Moffat's going to bring the Master back, though, cos that makes it sound much more like a when than an if. And I'm honestly more than a bit terrified of Moffat writing the Master, because -- look, Moffat writes the Who that's in my head. He writes psychological terror, and plots that can only be solved by using the TARDIS as an actual aid to time travel, and about the importance of memory and of stories, and his callbacks to oldschool make me clutch my heart. He doesn't always get it right and sometimes he says things that make me facepalm, but I genuinely trust his storytelling to a degree that terrifies me, because at this point, if he writes in the Master and hits even half as many false notes as RTD did, I'll be totally gutted.
...I am pretty sure there was a time in my life when I knew objectively that the amount of investment I have in this stupid show was absurd, and was, like, only mildly pleased when Cornell said Shalka!Doctor/Master was canon, and didn't run around like a headless chicken of joy. That was ... 2009 or something. And then I remembered.
Link: Q&A Transcript for the the Doctor Who NYC Primer screening! It is in fact technically spoiler-free; we mostly learn that Karen is on Team Fez and Matt is on Team Stetson, and that Moffat is still as evil as ever, and that Alex knows more than everyone else.
Excited flailing: an excerpt of the transcript:
Audience member #3: Whether or not this was ever an idea—what are your thoughts on Benedict Cumberbatch as the Master?
Steven Moffat: Well, as if my life weren’t complicated enough already! Uh listen, if John Simm could hear you, you would not live another hour. [audience laughter] I shouldn’t tell you this… but I’m going to. After [“The End of Time”] he’d been saying, “I think now that David’s left as the Doctor, I would have to leave the Master,” and he pulled me aside and said, “I didn’t mean that! Look at me, I’m fit, I’m okay!” So Benedict has to wait in line probably.
I don't even know how to deal with how much delight this gives me. On the one hand, I am quite enamored of the idea that Eleven gets his own Master for maximum delicious paralleling, but on the other, it's John fucking Simm and he can act like nobody's business; I'm sure that given the material he could easily do an escaped-from-the-Time-War Master who echoes and compliments Eleven in interesting ways. And there's no way I'd ever say no to more John Simm.
It does make me wonder when Moffat's going to bring the Master back, though, cos that makes it sound much more like a when than an if. And I'm honestly more than a bit terrified of Moffat writing the Master, because -- look, Moffat writes the Who that's in my head. He writes psychological terror, and plots that can only be solved by using the TARDIS as an actual aid to time travel, and about the importance of memory and of stories, and his callbacks to oldschool make me clutch my heart. He doesn't always get it right and sometimes he says things that make me facepalm, but I genuinely trust his storytelling to a degree that terrifies me, because at this point, if he writes in the Master and hits even half as many false notes as RTD did, I'll be totally gutted.
...I am pretty sure there was a time in my life when I knew objectively that the amount of investment I have in this stupid show was absurd, and was, like, only mildly pleased when Cornell said Shalka!Doctor/Master was canon, and didn't run around like a headless chicken of joy. That was ... 2009 or something. And then I remembered.