tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post1284733403092448885..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #698: The Curse of Fenric Part 2Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-15094431671953944442013-10-20T13:24:11.287-03:002013-10-20T13:24:11.287-03:00It may have been a function of scripts running lon...It may have been a function of scripts running long, and a particular weakness on Cartmell's part, indulging his writers and not wanting to cut any of the stuff he thought was brilliant.<br /><br />When the director came to cutting the show together, a lot of lines and breaths were sacrificed for time (the Cartmell seasons have lots of deleted scenes and lines on their DVDs; obviously, the show was also being shot differently, with editing possible, which wasn't the case for the done-as-plays episodes of earlier eras).Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-82262726277998153712013-10-20T13:00:26.621-03:002013-10-20T13:00:26.621-03:00You mention the editing possibly "doing away ...You mention the editing possibly "doing away with too much information." My only criticism of the story--and it applies to the season as a whole--was the show's adoption of a quick-cut, hyperactive editing style, which made many, may scenes feel truncated.<br /><br />The apparent need to cut away as quickly as possible after a character's final sentence in scene after scene left little time for the audience to absorb the information they'd just been given, and robbed us of actors' nuances such as reaction shots.<br /><br />There's a time and place for such hurley-burley. But Season 26 surely overdid it--it's as if someone behind the camera had a stopwatch and a time limit for every scene, and everything had to end with an exclamation point, with no room for periods, or commas, or ellipses...snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181997862745538999noreply@blogger.com