Kit Stølen ([info]anachronaut) wrote in [info]doctorwho,
@ 2006-05-20 01:53:00
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The award for best response to anything ever has to go to Steven Moffat on a message board.




Other poster: “he gave us a 1980's retread [referring to Tom MacRae’s ‘Rise of the Cybermen’].”

Steven Moffat: “What are you TALKING ABOUT you mad, mewling fool??

If that episode had shown up in the 80s (or the 70s, or the 60s) we'd all have fainted of joy on the spot! Whump! All of us! Every fan in the country - gurgle, whump, living room floor. Medical experts would've been flown in from all around the world! "My God," they'd have cried, "every geek in Britain is unconscious!! Quick, let's pull their pants over their heads and draw moustaches on them!"

The Elder Statesmen of Fandom, in their vast and mighty Council Chamber (in Mum's bedroom), would
actually have EXPLODED!! Into CLOUDS OF VAPOUR!!! Every breath taken in the whole wide world wide would have contained a measurable quantity of IAN LEVINE!!

And here you are, you lot, and you don't even know you're born. Some of us had to go to school the Monday after the Giant Rat!! No, REALLY! Think about that! Added ten years to my virginity, that did, Giant Rat Monday! Oh, I haven't forgotten!

Kids today!

Sheesh!”

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[info]the_10thdoctor
2006-05-20 06:16 am UTC (link)
*dies laughing*

Moffat pwns all...but I'm glad it didn't happen the way he posted. Who'd want to breathe Ian Levine?

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[info]carole_london
2006-05-20 08:41 am UTC (link)
Great post!

What does "pwns" mean?

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[info]dune_drd
2006-05-20 09:02 am UTC (link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

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[info]ionlylurkhere
2006-05-20 07:28 am UTC (link)
Was that on OG?

*studiously continues to avoid the place*

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[info]aelie_baby
2006-05-21 04:43 am UTC (link)
here, here.

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[info]glow_boy
2006-05-20 07:30 am UTC (link)
That is brilliant.

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[info]tysolna
2006-05-20 08:16 am UTC (link)
*adding to my memories* Fantastic, thank you!

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[info]lea_ysaye
2006-05-20 12:22 pm UTC (link)
Ahaha, icon love!

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[info]tysolna
2006-05-20 01:00 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! :) It's made by [info]kateorman.

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[info]electric_girl
2006-05-20 01:40 pm UTC (link)
*also memories*

So awesome.

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[info]dune_drd
2006-05-20 09:03 am UTC (link)
Mwhahahaha! And so true ^^

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[info]purplehez
2006-05-20 10:15 am UTC (link)
Hahaha, nice one!! :D

And it could almost be part of a Doctor Who story in itself - something to render all geeks unconscious might be quite a useful ploy for some alien plotting to take over the world! ;)

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[info]eryx_uk
2006-05-20 10:56 am UTC (link)
LOL. Fantastic.

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[info]reinderrocr
2006-05-20 11:21 am UTC (link)
Am I the only one who's hearing Moffat's first line in Tom Baker's voice?

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[info]siamesegoth2
2006-05-20 04:39 pm UTC (link)
Nope.

*shuffles*

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[info]reinderrocr
2006-05-21 07:15 am UTC (link)
Someone should SMS that message to a BT land line so it gets turned into a Bakergram.

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[info]terredancer
2006-05-20 11:52 am UTC (link)
Hah. That is fantastic. There's no other words for it.

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[info]sunyata_digest
2006-05-20 11:57 am UTC (link)
giant rat monday ahahahahahaha


(oh and anyone know who made this icon?)

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[info]anachronaut
2006-05-20 03:14 pm UTC (link)
which icon?

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[info]sunyata_digest
2006-05-20 03:23 pm UTC (link)
mine, i hate to not credit peoples...

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[info]coaldustcanary
2006-05-20 04:10 pm UTC (link)
It looks similar (same hearts, different text) to one that [info]nostalgia_lj uses, perhaps she made it? Or knows who did?

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[info]agitatethis
2006-05-20 06:13 pm UTC (link)
Ha!! I want to credit that Icon too!! It makes me laugh and nod!!!
haha emo Doctor!

*cough*
~AT

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[info]lee_in_limbo
2006-05-20 12:08 pm UTC (link)
You can tell he is the writer behind Couplings. (and if you think DW has been racy...)

L o L,
laughing when he should be slepping

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[info]ed_zeppelin
2006-05-20 12:22 pm UTC (link)
Ah, somebody mildly criticises the new series and Steven Moffat, being a Big Name Fan, has carte blanche to tear them to shreds...it can only be the Oh Squee forums.

Seriously, he writes some good episodes, but he's a complete pillock.

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[info]kaoru_is_here
2006-05-20 01:16 pm UTC (link)
Mhh... Do you really think so? Hey, he has at least humor and he clearly wasn't all that serious. If you're looking for a thin-skinned producer/writer who can get pissy in an instant, take Damon Lindelof from "Lost". That guy really is a complete pillock. And an embarrassing one as well.

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[info]ed_zeppelin
2006-05-20 01:26 pm UTC (link)
He uses humour to mock the original poster instead of just in a lighthearted way. What about the kids who had to go to school after Professor Zaroff's John Lumic's "how will you do that FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!?!?!" or the wince-inducing "delete"?

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[info]thehornedgod
2006-05-20 01:29 pm UTC (link)
They'll find that all the other kids love Doctor Who too and none of them noticed the stuff you found wince-inducing.

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[info]ed_zeppelin
2006-05-20 01:53 pm UTC (link)
As could be easily applied to the rat. Doctor Who in 1977 was at least as popular as today, if not more.

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[info]thehornedgod
2006-05-20 01:58 pm UTC (link)
They should have sacked Baker Major and made Johnny Rotten the fifth Doctor with Siouxie as his companion. Maybe then it would have remained relevant.

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[info]issi_noho
2006-05-20 03:19 pm UTC (link)
No. Sorry, but the stats don't back you up here. While the numbers it did in those days were respectable for the time, 'twas not the dominant force in Saturday night viewing and continual threat to the week's top ten that the current show is.

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[info]ed_zeppelin
2006-05-21 12:40 pm UTC (link)
I'm not talking about statistics - it was still a popular show.

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[info]issi_noho
2006-05-22 08:27 am UTC (link)
Well, yes, just nowhere near as popular as it is now. Trust me, you had much more playground cred if you liked The Sweeney, The Professionals, or any one of those big-rated, macho shows.

Good lord, now I'm actually feeling nostalgic for those long forgotten times of being beaten up for saying I thought Starsky & Hutch was 'fucking dull'. Happy days...

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[info]kaoru_is_here
2006-05-20 01:53 pm UTC (link)
Ah, well... I didn't mind any of this stuff. In fact, I actually loved the cheesiness of the Batman-movie-style Davros. :P But then again, I dig the cheesiness of "Doctor Who", anyway. And it's not like it hasn't intruded the series not before the beginning of 2005. It was always there, gloriously on the screen to be seen for anyone. Even in the Hinchcliffe-years. "You must be the second unbeliever to DIE!!" anyone? :P

Well... and dunno... but I don't find Moffat's posting offensive at all. He was just having a laugh, nothing more. *shrugs*

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[info]ed_zeppelin
2006-05-20 01:55 pm UTC (link)
It was the way he used the cheesiness of the original series as if ROTC wasn't one of the cheesiest of the new. Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but reading that makes me want to tear it apart.

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[info]danosan
2006-05-20 03:01 pm UTC (link)
it's my opinion that you're actively choosing to be offended by this, especially as he's lumping himself in with the "geeks" and besides the mad mewling fool bit at the start which i think might be a quote, it's free of ad-hom, and the rest of the comment reads as somewhat self-deprecating to me

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[info]ed_zeppelin
2006-05-21 12:41 pm UTC (link)
I get annoyed by Oh Squee in general and the theory of the intrinsic superiority of the new series, like it's a natural law or something.

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[info]issi_noho
2006-05-20 03:27 pm UTC (link)
But he hasn't torn them to shreds. He mainly sent himself (and his generation of fandom) up.

Tongue-in-cheekery, dude -- nothing to get po-faced about.

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[info]doctor_toc
2006-05-22 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Oh good grief. He's clearly taking the piss out of everyone involved including himself, not "tearing them to shreds". I don't think that having a sense of humour makes him a pillock. Quite the opposite in fact.

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[info]thehornedgod
2006-05-20 01:27 pm UTC (link)
Heh! Moffat strikes again!

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[info]issi_noho
2006-05-20 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Thank heavens for the real old skool.

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[info]coaldustcanary
2006-05-20 04:11 pm UTC (link)
Now that is funny.

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[info]sea_thoughts
2006-05-20 05:51 pm UTC (link)
Moffat rules purely for writing an amazingly funny rebuttal without using one single swear word, let alone the actual content of the post. Utterly hilarious.

"My God," they'd have cried, "every geek in Britain is unconscious!! Quick, let's pull their pants over their heads and draw moustaches on them!"

Reminds me of Roald Dahl. He's wonderful.

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[info]agitatethis
2006-05-20 06:18 pm UTC (link)
I honestly don't get it. maybe because I wan't around in the 70's?
or maybe because I've never watched TV in Great Britain??

umm... the episode is good and cheesy, mmmm cheese... I don't know about fainting... I was excited to see any Doctor Who episode when it was on in the 80's, no matter how crappy~
hmmm
I still don't get it.
*sigh*

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[info]the_roofdog
2006-05-21 12:10 am UTC (link)
The original poster is just whinging a bit, fair enough, but Moffat's reply is completely disingenuous. So modern Who is automatically better than old Who because the giant rat looked crap ? That's rubbish and he knows it.

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