Technology & technofarce, mechanisms of control, contested history, joint authorship, iterations in Moffat's career, matrices of ideas, repressive morality, sitcom structure, evaluating Captain Jack, what's changed from 2005 to now, & more are discussed in this review of Steven Moffat's 2005 The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances episodes of Doctor Who.
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:03:55) Moffat’s career & writing women
(00:07:44) Nancy & sexual repression: changing perspectives
(00:13:38) Rose and RTD’s attitudes
(00:17:37) Jack and the Doctor’s journeys
(00:22:50) Matrix of ideas
(00:25:16) Representations of history
(00:35:35) Sex storytelling; script parallels
(00:39:07) Who created Captain Jack?
(00:49:10) Technology & normalisation
(00:58:10) Chula warship; class & colonialist readings
(01:04:35) Final thoughts
(01:08:02) Deleted lines from the script
(01:13:01) Debrief: sex, tech, & war
(01:24:02) Debrief: Moffat & gender
(01:27:33) Debrief: Barrowman & the 2020s
(01:51:32) Debrief: RTD to RTD2…
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