Talk:Terry Nation
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I really don't like "Although often derided by modern critics as an overly simplistic and repetitive writer who got lucky with a BBC staff designer's vision for the monster in The Daleks, Nation was an incredibly versatile scriptwriter who wrote for many different kinds of shows with great success."
modern critics - examples ? why "modern" - as opposed to critics at the time, or what ?
incredibly versatile - support for that ? many different kinds - apart from Hancock, the rest of the shows mentioned were all written by a similar pool of writers.
Surely more important is his ability to create a show like Blakes 7 that gained a long lasting fandom.
-- Beardo 06:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think you're right — I'm removing that section for now, for the time being at least unless references criticism and analysis can be added. Angmering 11:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
I've added reqphoto template so that we can maybe get a photo of Terry Nation on this page... Sbwoodside 04:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Query about reference
One of the references cited is: "Tarrant, Graham. Obituary: Terry Nation. "The Independent". Thursday March 13 1997 (page 18)". Is this a genuine reference? Given how often characters with the name crop up in his work and given that the name is a partial-anagram of Terry Nation, it seems a very bizarre coincidence that an obituary of Terry Nation be written by someone called Tarrant!
-- Joe King 17:23, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- I thought so too when I found and added it! But that's certainly the name that appears on the byline. Sorry there's no online link. Angmering 21:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
