I came to lj for the first time in ages to see what people in fandom thought of the terribleness that was the 50th and I have to agree with all of this
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lol I, too, have been rolling around in the mutual rage of other fans. Sometimes I think it helps, sometimes it just makes me distressed that this is the state of the show.
I think you're right about the lack of moral complexity in Steven Moffat's writing. I think he makes vague token attempts, sometimes, but he can never commit to it. The Doctor tells Madam Kovarian "good men don't need rules; today is not a good day to find out why I have so many" -- and yet in the title of the episode and in the bizarre nursery rhyme written about him, the Doctor is still the titular "good man". (Not, as fandom had once speculated, Rory.) The Doctor in season 6 starts to maybe kind of see the kind of stress he puts his companions through and so he abandons them for their own good, but the finale of the season culminates in everyone in the universe crying out to help the Doctor and to reassure him that he is loved. Even if you disagree with Davros' speech in s4 about how the Doctor turns people into weapons, it still stands that we had a speech
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I think you're right about the lack of moral complexity in Steven Moffat's writing. I think he makes vague token attempts, sometimes, but he can never commit to it. The Doctor tells Madam Kovarian "good men don't need rules; today is not a good day to find out why I have so many" -- and yet in the title of the episode and in the bizarre nursery rhyme written about him, the Doctor is still the titular "good man". (Not, as fandom had once speculated, Rory.) The Doctor in season 6 starts to maybe kind of see the kind of stress he puts his companions through and so he abandons them for their own good, but the finale of the season culminates in everyone in the universe crying out to help the Doctor and to reassure him that he is loved. Even if you disagree with Davros' speech in s4 about how the Doctor turns people into weapons, it still stands that we had a speech ( ... )
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