[you know thing that impossible well now IT HAPPEN]
Spunky Assistant: BUT DOCTOR NO THAT IMPOSSIBLE
Doctor: YES SPUNKY ASSISTANT IT IMPOSSIBLE
[duramtic pause]
Doctor: …BUT HAPPEN
[title card doo wee ooo HAPPEN OF THE DOCTOR by STEVEN MOFFAT]
Smith tried pretty much everything. Playful, petulant, shouty, giddy, mopey, nasty, lachrymose … he put it all out there, but with nothing really at stake, it was like watching a workshop at the Actor’s Studio or something. And his even his considerable charms couldn’t smooth over his character’s jaw-dropping sexist comments, leering at women, and non-consensual kissing—culminating in the groaningly poor regeneration episode “The Time of the Doctor,” in which he essentially planted one on the Pope. Now, he apparently had had a relationship with her, but that’s also a problem: Yet another powerful woman turns to putty in the Doctor’s hands? Again, bad fanfic.
The Atlantic: “How Doctor Who Betrayed Matt Smith”
I just reblogged this article but, ugh, this needed it’s own post. It is bad fanfic. It’s embarrassing, in a way, and infuriating in every other. I don’t care who you are, writing a franchise is not about you, it’s about the integrity of that property and what you bring to it.
(via wintergrey)
All of this. I’ve said this. I think Matt Smith has done the best he can, but I really don’t like what Moffat has done. I’m hoping that with Peter Capaldi being an older and more established doctor he can challenge moffat more.
The Doctor’s dilemma in [The Waters of Mars], as in so many of the best of Davies’ episodes, was a moral one. It wasn’t a problem that could be solved by being clever or using the sonic or the TARDIS to fix everything. There was no winning scenario—the Doctor had to choose the best of two bad outcomes and it hurt to watch him do it. It made us hurt for him, which made us love him all the more. The Doctor knows what fixed points in time are, so can he refuse to save Pompeii? Should he have prevented the Dalek race from ever being born? Was it wrong to destroy the Racnoss, or was it just wrong to take steely pleasure in it? Was it wrong to depose Harriet Jones? There’s a moral question like that underpinning all the best of Who.
There’s very little of this exploration in Moffat’s Who, which creates an Eleven who is that arrogant, dangerous Time Lord Victorious from the end of “Waters of Mars.” He doesn’t have moral dilemmas, he’s not bothered about the consequences of his actions, he doesn’t even pause long enough to worry about the people who might get trampled under his feet or feel bad when innocent bystanders end up as collateral damage. Consider the particularly nauseating example of the solution to the Silence infestation of Earth in “Day of the Moon”: humans being hypnotoaded into being weapons of niche destruction. Perhaps it’s a testament to the vividness of his storytelling, but think about what Moffat has created here: in that world, thanks to the Doctor, every time you or I turn around we might feel a compulsion to splatter open a skull. There’s very little to love about a character with so much power who wields it so carelessly.
Part of what’s so maddening is that Moffat often has the opportunity to explore the moral dilemmas right in front of him and refuses to do anything with it. If there’s a consequence to the Eleventh Doctor’s behavior, Moffat’s hiding it inside a strangely constructed Rubik’s Cube, and we’re no longer convinced he isn’t more interested in playing with the puzzle than finding what’s inside.
For Whom the (Cloister) Bell Tolls, Or Why We Hope Steven Moffat’s ‘Doctor Who’ Is An Island – TVBacon [x] (via youholdthewater)
Whovian Feminism Reviews “The Day of the Doctor”
Whovian Feminism Reviews “The Day of the Doctor”
In a fitting move for an episode celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who, ”The Day of the Doctor” began with the opening visuals and music used by the very first episode of Doctor Who, which fade away to show a police man passing by a familiar old junkyard…
moffat’s companions’ lives are all so strangely ungrounded in reality and i think it’s a good example of his very weak writing. in day of the doctor we see clara teaching – no explanation, no mention of it in the episode, and no build up to it. although obviously this…
“No sir! I didn’t see you playing with your dolls again”
Someone find or make the spaceballs gif?
superlockedhogwartianinthetardis:
When War Doctor left, he regenerated into a new man.
The Ninth Doctor.
He didn’t remember anything about what happened before. Seeing his future self, saving Gallifrey…
But he did know that he had to go,
to London,
to find something.
Something that had to do with…
…Bad Wolf.
OH SHIT OH MY FUCKING GOD OH MY GOD MOFFAT YOU GENIUS YOU FUCKING I CAN’T ANYMORE WITH THIS SHOW THE CONTINUITY RETCONS A SHITLOAD BUT IT STILL MAKES SENSE
Also….Rose Tyler
Steven Moffat in his interview at Paris ComicCon
Interviewer: If you had a TARDIS, when and where would you go?
Moffat: Oh, I dunno. Everyone else in the world has a better answer than me right now. Never ask a happy man where he wants to go, i just don’t really want to go anywhere.
Moffat: Maybe I would take some Sherlock DVDs back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and see what he thinks.
Moffat: He’d probably punch me.