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Also, from RTD: This line feels written. Me: Yes, I wrote it...? RTD: No, I can hear YOU, not the character. It's the writer showing off, not the character speaking truthfully. - Blew my MIND, folks. He was right, and I think of that on every new script. https://twitter.com/alis_samp/status/1279526436500635651
(He was always the toughest with notes, he'd shank your script right in the kidneys, but would leave you laughing and thinking you were brilliant, dying to get back in and fix the next draft- basically, a free masterclass every meeting)
(Which is why it always makes me laugh when online voices think we can't take criticism, they clearly have never sat in a notes meeting having their script exploded by a gleeful, cackling Mr Television Davies)
(The scariest one was when he pointed out a line, and said "come on, that's a lazy placeholder, and you know it- what, was it about 1am, 2am, you were tired?" Me, staring in shock: ...1.30am, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT)
No idea! It was a character making a clever joke, but it just sounded like me making the joke and trying to be clever. They can make jokes, but in character.
