Doctor Who's New Season Is Modeled After Twilight?

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With Steven Moffat stepping into the showrunner's chair for the next season of Doctor Who, you might be expecting a slight shift in direction. But were you expecting that shift to be towards Twilight  and Harry Potter?

According to executive producer Piers Wenger, those two YA books were just two of the influences for the show's fifth season:

    One of the qualities in Steven's writing, and one of Steven's natural tendencies as a writer, is to write these strange, dark, glittering fairy tales. We wanted to give the look of the series a slightly more storybook, fairy-tale feel - within reason... It wasn't about suddenly becoming Tim Burton, but it was finding a pinch of that, a pinch of Twilight, a pinch of Harry Potter - but it's still absolutely, slap-bang, mainstream Doctor Who.

We look forward to seeing sparkly vampires and troubled teenagers when the show returns next month.


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The new series of Doctor Who has Twilight and Harry Potter-like elements to it, the executive producers have revealed.

Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Piers Wenger - who is working alongside fellow execs Steven Moffat and Beth Willis for series five - said that they wanted it to have a "fairy-tale feel".

"We just wanted to make the show look as up-to-date as it possibly could," Wenger explained. "One of the qualities in Steven's writing, and one of Steven's natural tendencies as a writer, is to write these strange, dark, glittering fairy tales.

"We wanted to give the look of the series a slightly more storybook, fairy-tale feel - within reason."

He added: "It wasn't about suddenly becoming Tim Burton, but it was finding a pinch of that, a pinch of Twilight, a pinch of Harry Potter - but it's still absolutely, slap-bang, mainstream Doctor Who.


Wondering what kind of Doctor Matt Smith will be, with his first season of Doctor Who still a month away? The answer, according to the man himself, is "very doof" and "a bit mad." But let's let him explain...

Talking to the British Guardian newspaper, Smith described his Doctor:

    He's a little reckless. He'll walk into a room and have a million things to do. And, as opposed to knowing exactly how to get out, he'll take it up to the precipice: don't know, don't know, don't know, and boom, there's the idea. And it's a bit mad and reckless. It's very doof, doof, doof. And he's got a companion who I think is the hardest to handle. And she's quite mad. But the Doctor's quite mad as well... I think it's impossible to escape that [melancholy side] with the Doctor. He's lost so many people and devastated so much… bad or good, he's brought whole empires down. He's seen a lot, and that's part of his personality. But that's also what gives him such joy and effervescence.


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Is it just me, or is that David Tennant's Doctor, at least up until the last year of specials? I can understand not wanting to mess with a winning formula, but I did expect something slightly different...

The new season of Doctor Who premieres April 3rd in the UK, April 17th in the US.






Oh god, I've been having bad feelings after watching those god awful tv spots for the new series.... they just make it look awful.I love books. I love storybooks. The idea of a storybook Doctor Who frightens me and actually makes me long for RTD.

And absolutely, slap-bang mainstream Doctor Who is simply wrong in IMHO. This is an institution that  shouldn't have to try to be like mainstream.  GTO   What would be your fears????? Please Let's all talked about it.Cause there isn't much SYFY on TV  ( TV SYFY SERIES ) ,Either here or around the world.So we just HAVE to protect what we have,specially for those who have been around since around we all have been very young.And i Belief that i maybe one of the Oldest here     with a very young heart though i can say.  GTO     

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And absolutely, slap-bang mainstream Doctor Who is simply wrong in IMHO. This is an institution that  shouldn't have to try to be like mainstream.  GTO   What would be your fears????? Please Let's all talked about it.Cause there isn't much SYFY on TV  ( TV SYFY SERIES ) ,Either here or around the world.So we just HAVE to protect what we have,specially for those who have been around since around we all have been very young.And i Belief that i maybe one of the Oldest here     with a very young heart though i can say.  GTO      [/b][/i]

I watched the William Hartnell episodes as they were broadcast in 1963-4.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to Moffatt's reign. I've liked most of the episodes he wrote so far.
His "Jekyll" series was pretty good.
And RTD was getting far too sentimental and over-the-top, maybe trying to make a show reel to help him make it in Hollywood, so his time was well and truly up. Maybe he can do some interesting episodes as a writer, but not showrunner, thankfully.


Matt Smith is a solid actor, and he certainly doesn't have the hunky looks of a typical teenage idol.
I avoid spoilers and previews so I can't comment on how they're promoting him, but they're often deceptive anyway.
 
And "SYFY" is the name of a drippy US TV network, not the genre. Glad they've given up pretending they broadcast  "SF", because  lot of their stuff is not SF at all.