#Moffat Era Rewatch

[wwillywonka]

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Doctor Who (2005-Present)

Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone or because I hate someone or because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun, and god knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind.

[macbethz]

[aq2003]

i saw a post saying boom was good bc it feels like it could be done with any doctor/companion duo and honestly that was one of the things i felt was wrong with it

[robiniswriting]

my toxic trait is that my favorite doctor changes by the day depending on my mood, the position of the stars, how hot my tea was this morning, and whether or not mercury is in retrograde

[phyrexian-lesbian]

moffat: had some sexist writing in his first season and got criticised.

moffat: acknowledged he made mistakes and immediately improved on them.

chibnall: was told his politics were on the nose and that there weren’t enough references to past seasons.

chibnall: improved immediately on these mistakes.

rtd: couldn’t kill characters, wrote boring tropes, treated his black characters wrong, did fake progressive things.

rtd: did it all again but worse.

and who’s meant to be the saviour of doctor who again?

[nicholasmoorethetwittermigrant]

Something I’ve come to appreciate watching RTD1, Moffat, and Chibnall’s eras in such quick succession (with RTD2 airing as well) is how much each era really feels like it’s own show, but also the same show.

Doctor Who is just such a tonally, stylistically, aesthetically malleable show and it doesn’t really hit when you’re watching it spaced out over decades.

[gnougnouss]

Finally getting around to watching that "Sherlock is garbage and here is why video" and hearing him say that "ultimately he was just a guy" about the doctor in RTD era is a REVELATION. THAT'S where all of you get your stupid ass takes I see.

Foud the culprit. The popularity of this video has done untold damage to the dw fandom on this website istg

[musical-chick-13]

Sometimes I think about the parallel between "More than every living thing in the universe?" "Yes" and "Not one living thing is worth you" "Or you" and then I simply lose my entire mind.

[camellcat]

girl in the fireplace is so funny to me. just seeing different people's reactions (and mine) to it. like, here's how I break it down:

if you love rose tyler and timepetals but maybe not as crazy for the doctor himself, this is the worst episode ever EVA!!!!! like hell on EARTH WHYYYY OH MY GOD ROSEEE MY GIRL I'M SO SORRY YOU'RE BEING TREATED LIKE THIS!!!!! DOCTOR go save ur girl goddamn don't just leave her so uncertain and feeling betrayed like that!!!! and don't PROUDLY KISS OTHER WOMEN 😰😰😰!!!!!

if you're a bigger doctor lover but still enjoy rose and maybe timepetals but eh it's whatever, this episode is very interesting and a fun exploration of the doctor, if a bit sad to see rose almost sidelined like that. ultimately one you quite enjoy

if you just care about the doctor and not rose or timepetals, this episode is the SHIT OH it's so good it's SO good oh my god yes please dive more into the doctor's fucked up psyche and life grahhHH!!!! ough. this man is FUCKED UP!! YEAHHHH!!!

[besidesitstoowarm]

just came across the most deliciously deranged redditor who left three full comments, like 28 paragraphs worth, of absolute rambling about how chibnall's run is "objectively" awful with "objectively" nothing good about it and if you disagree you're a blithering moron who probably doesn't even watch the show, and now it's all extremely stupid because of woke or something. it was like sighting a rare bird, you truly don't get that kind of cornfed crazy just anywhere. it was the kind of tjlc-style rant you haven't seen on here in about a decade. imagine thinking the problem with doctor who recently is that it's "too stupid" i'm sorry but much like star wars, doctor who is good when it's good and great when it's bad. and if the show being stupid was new, or if stupid episodes were bad, then "the space museum" wouldn't exist and wouldn't be so goddamn good

[trustmy-rage]

you know, after the chibnall era I actually started liking the moffat era episodes more. Sure a lot of his story arcs are rlly misognystic, but at least i cared for the characters!!!

[mushroomofficial]

bought myself a post-surgery present. im gonna be so insufferable when my adhd lets me actually read these

[variousqueerthings]

I feel like I've said a lot of mean stuff about moffat, and also in his last season (and sort of building to that even) there was quite a big change in how the show operated under him as showrunner. I wonder where that came from, but for sure bill potts was an amazing character and one that I would never have expected from a moffat show, and it laid the groundwork for genderbending timelords to come. for now though, in the timeline I'm in (that is, doctor who circa end s2/beginning s3) still a prat who made a fuss because he wanted a horse to come through a mirror and overworked the vfx department to make it happen, and really really bad at writing romance

[sp00ky-scary]

does doctor who just age actors or smth because why does everyone look so young in their first series compared to their last

[ebenelephant]

oh it's so bad but all I remember from late 11/early 12 era is that I really disliked clara. don't know why, just did.

[micahdotgov]

here's the official micah simmaster tier list of all the rtd era episodes of dr who btw. if you were wondering.