“The average writer has three plot holes a story” factoid actually just statistical error. Steven Moffat, who lives in a cave and has over 10,000 plot holes an episode, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Steven Moffat hires zero female writers for Doctor Who — for the fourth season in a row.
Steven Moffat hires zero female writers for Doctor Who — for the fourth season in a row.
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Maybe the writers get their jobs because the head writer finds their work good?
Probably. And we all know women don’t write good sci-fi/fantasy TV.
Nope.
None.
Nothing to see here.
I got nothing.
I can’t think of a single one, ever.
NOPE. NEVER BEFORE. NO GOOD FEMALE WRITERS EVER IN THE SCIENCE FICTION GENRE.
doin a group project like
#something somebody should have said to moffat #once or twice
In re-watching the Nine and Ten era Doctor Who series, one thing that has really stood out to me is the emphasis on questioning inherent power structures. Nine actively and literally tells people to question things (see the Satellite 5 episodes) – question your government, question the media, question your parents
Basically, question all institutions and question why you should trust their authority
(also, most baddies and villains happened to be either a) people who just want money or b) people who just want power)
The point of sci-fi, originally, is to use extraordinary things to illuminate and explore the human condition and in this sense the early series of the reboot succeeded quite wonderfully, its focus being on the nature of power for the most part
And this, in essence, is why for me Moffat’s series fall short. He has at his disposal an incredible established universe where near anything is possible and there are hundreds upon thousands of ways he could use that to explore the nature of humanity, but he just… doesn’t.
And while we’re talking about Doctor Who’s exploration of power structures, it’s very, VERY clear from not only post-2005 but also classic Who that the Doctor is an anti-authoritarian at heart: all authority figures are only respected as such to the extent that they can prove themselves worthy of the title, the Doctor himself rejects any and all salutes directed at him, and so on and so forth
The Eleventh Doctor, on the other hand, is an authority figure. He takes it upon himself to order people about, expecting their unquestioning loyalty; he makes decisions about his friends’ lives on their behalf (see Amy’s pregnancy).
And just ugh this bugs me so much because it essentially goes against everything that the Doctor has previously stood for and why I love his character so much and yeah sorry for rambling and I know this is a really badly-formed argument, this has just been on my mind a lot lately
Moffat wank under the cut:
selections from ranting about moffat last night:
i want moffat gone yesterday
: time of the doctor was a fucking shitstorm of an episode, matt deserved better than that and i cant’ fucking stand clara because they forgot to give her a personality. Also not incluing barrowman in 50th was a goddamn shame and a waste of an actor who loves the show
: …i get a little ranty about moffat
i mean, time of the doctor, just, fucking ball of shit where moffat tries to be clever and tie everything together and it doesn’t work at all
he doesn’t pen every episode
: but a showrunner HAS to have a coherent vision
there has to be an arc or a character doesn’t change and grow
: i mean, look at 10
season 2 in love with rose, happy, exploring his new life, trying to put the time war behind him
season 3 – lost, ignorant of martha, mopey, finding the master and jack again and then losing everyone just when he thought maybe he could find a family again. Both Martha and Jack rejected him in the end for their own sanity and that was GOOD. For both of them
Season 4 Donna, seeing the universe through her eyes, trying to not do to donna what he did to martha, trying so hard to be a better man…only to lose Donna too
then the specials and the Time Lord Triumphant and going seriously master level crazy before in the end sacraficing his life to save one man who believed in him
eleven doesn’t have an arc. okay we have cracks, and silence, the lake..but those are exernal factors, not internal ones
sure with ten we had torchwood and saxon and things going missing, but it fit into ten’s growth as a character, not arcs for the sake of arcs, you know?
and thats ANOTHER THING
*adds another soapbox*
WITHOUT TRUE DEATH CHARACTER DEATH IS CHEAP AND MEANINGLESS
i fuckign hate that they brought gallifrey back
thats fucking bullshit that damages the entire new run
to me here’s the thing
nine saw his world burn. And was responsible. The last one left. He was bitter and angry and yet found a erason to keep going in rose.
ten kept that guilt, but tried to move past it, then the shit with the master. he died knowing he was it
eleven of course is mess, but he still caries that same guilt. HE knew he was the one to push the button, so to speak
and now magic? gallifrey isn’t dead?
bullfuckinshit
and i’m sorry, speaking not just as a barrowman fangirl, couldn’t you just as easliy had jack in the 50th?
Jack HATES unit. he would NEVER just hand over his manipulator
to anyone
he gave it to martha to escape the master, thats it
as i said last night. Doctor Who isn’t my Doctor Who anymore. I’m a lifetime whovian i know things change, but good goddamn i’m pisssed about things right nos