No argument, Six sucked red rubber moose. He and Five, plus of course the insanity at the Beeb, are what in my opinion killed the show.
That doesn't make the Valeyard necessarily a bad thing or impossible to work with; we've certainly seen reboots of key plot points before (Rassilon, for example). It does need to be handled with care, but I think it can be made into both a hook for Old Who fans and a swing point for New Who, as The Doctor gets past this (inevitable) episode of internal darkness and heads out, stronger than ever.
Though Moffatt, or whomever is running the show by then, would do well to read Charlie Jane Anders at io9 (http://io9.com/the-central-problem-with-steven-moffats-doctor-who-507670201).
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Date: 2013-05-19 02:43 am (UTC)That doesn't make the Valeyard necessarily a bad thing or impossible to work with; we've certainly seen reboots of key plot points before (Rassilon, for example). It does need to be handled with care, but I think it can be made into both a hook for Old Who fans and a swing point for New Who, as The Doctor gets past this (inevitable) episode of internal darkness and heads out, stronger than ever.
Though Moffatt, or whomever is running the show by then, would do well to read Charlie Jane Anders at io9 (http://io9.com/the-central-problem-with-steven-moffats-doctor-who-507670201).