Lots of people do make it convincing, I think Mister Gaiman would be shocked to hear that you think he couldn't in this episode.
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I think if you read the Sandman you'd see how his genius lies in zooming out of the meta story to the micro. So "The Sound of her Wings" is about how the great forces of the universe and also an amusing sparky sketch on feeding pigeons at the same time.
TV viewers have such degraded low expectations these days alas.
Mine still pretty much the same
Dalek
The Empty Child 2 parter
Father's Day
Bad Wolf 2 parter
Blink
Waters of Mars
Midnight
Pandorica one
Only ones I can think of, off the top of head.
...And I forgot Fires of Pompei again!
Quote: sootyj @ June 1 2011, 12:43 PM BSTI think if you read the Sandman you'd see how his genius lies in zooming out of the meta story to the micro. So "The Sound of her Wings" is about how the great forces of the universe and also an amusing sparky sketch on feeding pigeons at the same time.
TV viewers have such degraded low expectations these days alas.
Yes. What we probably needed was Samuel Beckett to do a few episodes of Who. 
Why not? Is he dead?
Mock you may but certainly the giants of scifi wrote for Startrek and the Twilight Zone.
Shocked at the love for Waters of Mars.
I thought it was very good too. Not one of the top tier of new Who for me, but very good none the less.
The last 10 minutes was exceptional, enough to drag it up quite a few places
Quote: sootyj @ June 1 2011, 12:50 PM BSTWhy not? Is he dead?
Mock you may but certainly the giants of scifi wrote for Startrek and the Twilight Zone.
True Harlen Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon made memorable contributions.
Some of the best episodes of Blake's Seven were written by Tanith Lee. On the whole I suspect it is easier to turn a science fiction writer into a screenwriter than a screenwriter into a science fiction wrier.
Quote: sootyj @ June 1 2011, 12:50 PM BSTWhy not? Is he dead?
Mock you may but certainly the giants of scifi wrote for Startrek and the Twilight Zone.
Yes. Actually I'd love to have seen Waiting for T'Ardis. Wherein the Doctor and Rory sit on a park bench in Leeds and chat about old times for fifty minutes.
It surprises me that Gaiman is the first sort of 'name' sci-fi/fantasy writer to have written for the show since it came back.
Quote: Timbo @ June 1 2011, 12:52 PM BSTShocked at the love for Waters of Mars.
Without a doubt the best Tennant Episode. He just completely lost it. Seeing the Doctor go unhinged and start to turn was f**king brilliant. They f**ked it up in the next episode which was so disappointing.
Get Iain M Banks in Consider Phlebas form on the case for me!
Banks would be excellent!
Alan Moore would be interesting.