![]() Picking up where "Wild Blue Yonder" left off, with one last meeting between the Doctor and Wilfred Mott, "The Giggle" was written by showrunner Russell T Davies, and directed by Chanya Button. ![]() The extra Disney funding can be seen in Doctor Who's new opening credits sequence and the expansiveness of the show's new TARDIS set. As with the first two specials, the final Doctor Who special, "The Giggle," airs on the BBC in the United Kingdom and streams internationally on Disney+ as part of Disney's new deal with the BBC, which is hoping to turn Doctor Who into a bigger franchise. ![]() Their story continued in the delightfully strange Special Two: "Wild Blue Yonder," which sent the Doctor and Donna to the edge of the universe and began wrestling with the aftermath of the Flux. "To understand the present, go back to the past," one of the writers says, or that the series, while set in the 1930's "Mirrors the Past (director Adam Kane)." USA also provides a couple of good mini-documentaries "Legacy of the Heartland: The One Thousand" and "Legacy of the Heartland: War of Words." The documentaries and the interviews put the characters and the action in better context, and really make this interesting, well thought out series more understandable.Doctor Whobrings its celebration of its 60th anniversary to an end this week with Special Three: "The Giggle." Doctor Who returned in November with its first 60th-anniversary special, "The Star Beast," reuniting the Doctor with companion Donna Noble. The USA Network provides excellent video interviews with the director and writers, who make clear this is their intent. So far however, the local paper in "Damnation" is covering up the attempt to drive the small farmers off their land by price fixing and violence by strikebreakers. Also, media like the investigative press and radio may also end up playing part in opposing "Big Business" and their enforcers. The farmers are attempting to unionize and strike to protect themselves (though two of the main characters, who are the main labor organizers, would likely really prefer a workers revolution). Another difference between "Deadwood" and "Damnation" is that the ruthless business interests are actively being opposed. The comparisons can be taken a little far: one character, representing the "Big Business" interests coming after the small farmers, reveals that the interests he represents wants to eventually kick the farmers off their land to not only mechanize agriculture, but also mechanize factories and warfare (I think with our fears of Artificial Intelligence, this is more a fear of our time than the 1930's). The 1930's, like our time now, was a time when the economy failed millions, institutions such as the press, law enforcement and the courts appeared to have been corrupted, and the answers to these problems seemed they could only be solved by revolutions either by the extreme right or the extreme left. One of the differences between the two series is that "Damnation" is, while set in the past, deliberately intends to comment on our current state of affairs in the early 21st Century. Filmed in Calgary, Alberta, the scenery passes well enough for some parts of Iowa. FYI, the writers and director of "Damnation" have worked on projects like "Longmire" and "Office Space." The writing is well done (if brutal), and the acting excellent. If you liked "Deadwood" you might like "Damnation." Both "Damnation" and "Deadwood" are about power politics and corruption in western settings, "Deadwood" being set in the 19th Century Gilded Age in South Dakota, "Damnation" set in rural Iowa during the Great Depression (1931). ![]()
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