Month: May 2008

Tasha Robinson on War, Inc.:

Meanwhile, Hilary Duff flounces around as a Middle Eastern Britney Spears, a thickly accented, sexed-up pop-tart whose role is so inherently awful that it’s hard to tell whether Duff is pulling it off well.

I finally got around to making my hotel reservation. Guess I’m actually going to Readercon in July.

You know the really horrible thing? I’ve read worse.

So apparently Steven Moffat is taking over as head writer on Doctor Who.

This makes me very happy. Moffat is a great writer, clearly loves the series (and its history), and has written some of the best episodes — some of the best television — I’ve ever seen.

This also makes me very nervous. Russell T. Davies, who will be departing as showrunner next season, is no slouch as a writer himself, also clearly loves the series, and has penned some pretty good episodes, too. But it’s also clear that his focus has been sometimes scattered, and he maybe hasn’t always produced the best work he could.

Obviously Moffat won’t be writing every episode in season 5, but there is a part of me that worries what happens when he becomes more than a one- (or two-part-) episode man a year. I mean, I really liked Jeckyll, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say it got a little muddled near the end. And he’s apparently working on a Tintin movie for Steven Spielberg, too?

Still, I’m optimistic. I’ll be a little more worried when and if Daivd Tennant decides to leave. (I’ve recently been re-watching some episodes from the first season, and it’s amazing almost like a different show it is. Not to take anything away from Christopher Eccleston, who was terrific, but I hadn’t realized just how much Tennant had grown on me.)

Oh, and copyeditors take note of the missing capitalization in the linked news story above: “Steven Moffat: pictured on the set of coupling with his wife, Sue Vertue.”

Wow, Stargate Atlantis really can’t hold on to its cast members, can it?