The above isn't the interview I saw but given its the press pack I'm willing to bet the "interview" I read was actually bits of that cobbled together. In which case its reads like Hodges liked the original but perceived it as an ultimately pessimistic series where he wants to write stuff that is ultimately optimistic.
Killing animals generally seems a bit pointless in most drama. I do have a fondness for what I term "pet peril" - where they try to up the tension by endangering a pet only for it to escape, mostly because it's such a blatant piece of lazy writing that, in the right circumstances, it simply enhances the cheesiness of the whole thing. My favourite moment of pet peril is in a made for TV, meteorite hits Earth movie in which the meteor hits, the goldfish bowl wobbles to the edge of the table, "Oh no! Will the goldfish survive?", phew! the wobbling stops and the goldfish is safe. I always wonder if the budget was so tight they couldn't afford a dog.
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Date: 2008-12-03 08:04 pm (UTC)The above isn't the interview I saw but given its the press pack I'm willing to bet the "interview" I read was actually bits of that cobbled together. In which case its reads like Hodges liked the original but perceived it as an ultimately pessimistic series where he wants to write stuff that is ultimately optimistic.
Killing animals generally seems a bit pointless in most drama. I do have a fondness for what I term "pet peril" - where they try to up the tension by endangering a pet only for it to escape, mostly because it's such a blatant piece of lazy writing that, in the right circumstances, it simply enhances the cheesiness of the whole thing. My favourite moment of pet peril is in a made for TV, meteorite hits Earth movie in which the meteor hits, the goldfish bowl wobbles to the edge of the table, "Oh no! Will the goldfish survive?", phew! the wobbling stops and the goldfish is safe. I always wonder if the budget was so tight they couldn't afford a dog.