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sadcypress

not the Doctor Who griping you're looking for

Aug 16, 2014 10:49

I am getting cranky about Doctor Who again. But it's all REACTIONARY crankiness because I'm thinking of all the complaints I hear about the show in recent seasons ( and I persist in reading it differently. )

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arcadiaego August 16 2014, 20:45:55 UTC

I like that Amy chose to go with Rory and have her whole life with him, but Moffat's writing just confuses me so much by suddenly changing the rules and throwing new information in with no relation to what's happened previously that I couldn't be emotionally invested in it. I don't have any idea who Clara is beyond her function of saving the Doctor (and the fact Moffat thinks she's gobby) but that might be OK if I could just follow the plots. I don't dislike her, I just can't latch on to her at all. It frustrates me because it's not as if Moffat can only write single storylines (like his Nine episodes which are my favourite of that series, of Night of the Doctor which does a fantastic amount in about 5 minutes) - the first series of Eleven's run had a perfectly coherent story arc ( ... )

daiq August 17 2014, 10:04:09 UTC

I loved both 11 and Clara (i will admit to being a little over Hamlet, sorry 10) and of course Rory and Amy were awesome!

this got away from me, I am so sorry... tempestsarekind August 19 2014, 21:31:25 UTC

EMILYYY I was just thinking about this and feeling the same way. You are probably not surprised by this information, but I thought I'd tell you anyway. :)

I really haven't been able to get excited about the upcoming season of Doctor Who yet, even with the added bonus of a History Boy in the cast - and while part of this is that I never did my proper goodbyes for Eleven (waaaaah), part of it is just that feeling of not having anyone to be excited with, because the internet is apparently made up almost entirely of people who hate Moffat Who and think Peter Capaldi got hired as the Doctor with the sole intent of blowing up Moffat Who from the inside, I don't even know.

I mean, yes, I thought the last go-round with the Weeping Angels was one too many (though I still love the S5 Angels two-parter), and I still feel like I don't know Clara as well as I'd like to, precisely because the Doctor spent most of his time with her wondering what she was and not who she was. But I have so much love for my Ponds, and Eleven is pretty much ( ... )

Re: this got away from me, I am so sorry... sadcypress August 21 2014, 13:23:45 UTC

As ever, I am Right. There. With you. On all points! The fandom has moved so strongly against where the show has been lately that it doesn't feel like there's a space any more for anything that's not slow shaking of the head about how much the show has fallen away from all that is good ( ... )

Re: this got away from me, I am so sorry... tempestsarekind August 21 2014, 20:27:19 UTC

Same! I think S5 is definitely Moffat's strongest season, the one that was the most well-thought out (though I still love a lot of S6, too), and would be happy to talk about the ways that S7 doesn't always add up or hold together - but there doesn't seem to be much space for discussing or critiquing the show that doesn't start from that place of Everything Is Terrible Because Moffat ( ... )