Tuesday: Who's Sorry Now?
- Publication: Belfast Telegraph
- Date: 2014-12-11
- Author: Robert McNeil
- Page: 13
- Language: English
How awful to be a politician. Not my words, but those of Peter Capaldi (below) who plays yon Dr Who in a top TV show. On taking the role, Capaldi found his every public word came under scrutiny.
He railed: "What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views, but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story?'
I don't want to sound controversial, but conflict is troubling.
All my attempts at novels failed because, as I was playing God, nothing bad happened to any character.
Indeed, nothing happened at all. It's the recipe for a happy life: don't just do something, sit there.
But life and literature demand conflict. Karl Marx, in his theory of dialectical materialism, said conflict was the motor of progress. And, under Dalektial materialism, it's pretty much the same for Dr Who.
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