I don't watch Dr. Who but I do like Steve Moffat's other work on Coupling, which is pure (mostly, not entirely) shallow farce.
This is personal preference, but the violence in Tarantino's movies doesn't bother me. I understand the arguments against some of the more extreme violence he puts in his movies, and I'm not sure of he has sufficient social responsibility to justify them. But for me, the violence works in the context of the film, whereas the violence in, say, Eli Roth movies does bother me. I think the difference is that for all the statements about Tarantino doing everything just for shock, his films really are very complex, and play with numerous tones and genres very well. Pulp Fiction is supposed to be a meaningless pop culture smudge important only because it's entertaining, but in fact it's very intelligent and (ack) moving regarding redemption.
There's a lot of stuff here. One of the compelling themes in the movie is the Power of Cinema. This comes back to Tarantino's own love affair with movies and the numerous references you cite (and I definitely thought of Once Upon a Time in the West in the opening sequence, before Landa's arrival). Shosanna, a filmmaker, ends up using film (to burn) literally to change history. Movies are more powerful than real-life history to QT, or maybe he thinks they should be...?
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This is personal preference, but the violence in Tarantino's movies doesn't bother me. I understand the arguments against some of the more extreme violence he puts in his movies, and I'm not sure of he has sufficient social responsibility to justify them. But for me, the violence works in the context of the film, whereas the violence in, say, Eli Roth movies does bother me. I think the difference is that for all the statements about Tarantino doing everything just for shock, his films really are very complex, and play with numerous tones and genres very well. Pulp Fiction is supposed to be a meaningless pop culture smudge important only because it's entertaining, but in fact it's very intelligent and (ack) moving regarding redemption.
There's a lot of stuff here. One of the compelling themes in the movie is the Power of Cinema. This comes back to Tarantino's own love affair with movies and the numerous references you cite (and I definitely thought of Once Upon a Time in the West in the opening sequence, before Landa's arrival). Shosanna, a filmmaker, ends up using film (to burn) literally to change history. Movies are more powerful than real-life history to QT, or maybe he thinks they should be...?