I do remember reading that about the beach scene - and I think that he wasn't completely happy with what he ended up with, although I seem to remember he felt better about it once he'd seen Billie's acting choices.
My problem is that I still don't know quite who Eleven is yet, so I can't always tell whether he's "in character" or not. Maybe Moff is deliberately making him more of a puzzle to the audience. Kids are generally not as bothered by all the "character stuff" as we grown-ups are, and I get the feeling that he wants to steer things back towards that demographic. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - I started watching DW as a kid in the seventies, after all, and back then I was definitely more interested in the stories and the enemies etc than I was in figuring out why a character acted a certain way. But he's a good writer. Can't we have both?
And yeah, even my kids were yelling at the TV about the relationship between books and trees!
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Date: 2010-12-29 11:09 pm (UTC)My problem is that I still don't know quite who Eleven is yet, so I can't always tell whether he's "in character" or not. Maybe Moff is deliberately making him more of a puzzle to the audience. Kids are generally not as bothered by all the "character stuff" as we grown-ups are, and I get the feeling that he wants to steer things back towards that demographic. I'm not saying that's a bad thing - I started watching DW as a kid in the seventies, after all, and back then I was definitely more interested in the stories and the enemies etc than I was in figuring out why a character acted a certain way.
But he's a good writer. Can't we have both?
And yeah, even my kids were yelling at the TV about the relationship between books and trees!