Hello.

[infinitemonkeys]

I have been in Paris which was fantastic. A great city to visit. A friend of mine sort of lives there every other weekend so we had dinner at his boyfriend's flat with its fifth floor balcony garden of wonder and moody, pretty cat. I don't know why I haven't been there more often, except that it's so close that I think I can go there any time and I

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[lizlet]

Thank you for hating Chris Chibnall as much as I do. I saw his name in the credits and I was like, c'mon Liz give the bloke a chance. AND THEN UGH UGH UGH I WAS WRONG TO DO SO. The two parter is such a fucking mess on a basic writing level. And given that I was JUST STARTING TO LIKE THE DAMN THING because MAYBE I'M NOT QUITE OVER TENNANT YET OKAY AND NEEDED SOME TIME, the entire exercise is frustrating.

[infinitemonkeys]

I understand the difficulty of moving on from Tennant. Didn't experience it myself but that was only because I was starting to hate the way RTD wrote Ten.

But my dislike of RTD's writing in those latter stages is nothing to my burning contempt for Chibbers.

RTD is a good but self-indulgent writer, who started to break rules he should respect. Much like next week's fellow, Richard Curtis. Chibbers is a hack.

[lizlet]

Yes! Exactly. :)

[se_parsons]

I am very, very envious of the Paris.

[infinitemonkeys]

Look, if you ever get over here, come to Paris for a few days as well. The tickets can be as low as £70 and the journey is two hours, on a train. It is the least stressful and expensive foreign travel ever. If M is there we could go meet P and see his kitty Toto, and all would be grand.

I know. School loans and hideous work demands, but one day.

[se_parsons]

Yes. There will be one day.

[muridae_x]

I adore mooching about in Paris. Alas, I am passportless at the moment so am islandbound. Must do something about that.

I expect he entered the writing room saying "Tonight, Moff, I am going to be Malcolm Hulke".

And Bob Sloman. And Barry Letts. And Don Houghton. It's a commendable ambition, but alas Chibnall always falls short in the execution. Even with their scripts to crib from he still couldn't shuffle the pack and come up with a coherent remix of the plot elements.

I am largely unspoiled for this season - I wouldn't have known about the Event in that last 10 minutes if Chibnall's ham-fistedness in part one hadn't made it so blindingly obvious it was coming - but knowing the writers names in advance seems essential. It's never as bad if you've adjusted your expectations downwards in advance.

[tabula_x_rasa]

As usual, your thoughts on Who are my thoughts. I am completely baffled why they keep letting Chibnall write. He needs to GTFO.

I would love to see Ivory Coast do really well.