#The Year of Moffat

[oswincoleman]

Jenna Coleman with Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat, and Samuel Anderson at the Doctor Who World tour in Cardiff, 10 years ago!

[sentientsky]

Hozier, "Francesca"

clara, my clara

[whothehellisrosee]

Wait,

HOW has it already been 7 years since season 4?

HOW?

[ovenproofowl]

wouldn't be a Moffat Episode™️without reducing every character to a one-dimensional furniture piece to revolve around a version of the doctor that hasn't existed since 2017 🍾

[beguilingcorpse]

the entire eleventh doctor's run is like. every episode is the coolest concept in the world but the execution doesn't give anything room to breathe. every scene has to have The Highest Stakes so you get these JAMPACKED stories where individual moments are really really interesting but they just don't cohere. there's 65% more episode per episode but when you try to pick apart the details of what's going on it all falls apart

[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.

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

Do you ever think about how season 4 of BBC Sherlock came out 8 years ago or are you normal?

[timespacegirls]

the new doctor who episode titles just dropped!!

Space Babies (written by RTD, dir by Julie Anne Robinson)

The Devil's Chord (written by RTD, dir by Ben Chessell)

Boom (written by Moffat, dir by Julie Anne Robinson)

73 Yards (written by RTD, dir by Dylan Holmes Williams)

Dot and Bubble (written by RTD, dir by Dylan Holmes Williams)

Rogue (written by Kate Herron and Briony Redman, dir by Ben Chessell)

The Legend of Ruby Sunday (written by RTD, dir by Jamie Donoughue)

Empire of Death (written by RTD, dir by Jamie Donoughue)

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

JOHN: are you from space?

KARKAT: OF COURSE I'M NOT, YOU QUARTER WIT.

JOHN: oh.

KARKAT: NOBODY'S FROM SPACE. I'M FROM A PLANET LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

[whoify]

aaaaand that’s enough time in the doctor who tag just saw someone saying moffat is problematic for including a lesbian character in the 1800s

[sandymybeloved]

i must not start an argument with the moffat hater spewing nonsense in my notes. i must not start an argument with the moffat hater spewing nonsense in my notes. i must not start an argument with the moffat hater spewing nonsense in my notes. i must not st-

[cryptidjeepers]

Tbh seeing people bend over backwards to defend moffats sub par writing (because of nostalgia and to be a contrarian lets be honest) is far more annoying than someone being "over critical" about something they didn't like about his writing lmao. Ive literally only seen actual criticism of the christmas special and people saying they just didnt vibe with it. Im seeing more people acting like hating his writing is a federal offense than actual mean spirited reveiws😭😭

[fictionadventurer]

Press Gang moments that I spend too much time thinking about given how long it's been since I watched that show:

The episode where Colin finds out a girl at school is being sexually abused by her father. And he has a crisis, because he's so far been a one-note comedy relief side character whose entire personality is being a fast-talking sleazy huckster who'll do anything to get rich quick. He is the last person on Earth you'd come to for help in a situation like this--yet he's the only one who can help here. So the other kids are like, "Okay, play to your strengths. Pretend this is a sales pitch. How do you convince kids in these situations to reach out for help?" And the kids bring up reasons why someone might be reluctant to speak up, and Colin spins his sales pitch to address each issue, and we're halfway through the scene before you realize this is exactly like one of those Teens Talking About Big Issues PSAs, but it's so perfectly in-character for everyone involved that you didn't even notice they were directly preaching to the audience.

The episode title "At Last a Dragon" (which is one of the most romantic titles ever), where Spike finally gets a chance to do some big heroic action for Lynda that should make her ready to fall into his arms, but when his chance arrives, the horny teenage boy shows restraint and doesn't take it and it's the first moment of real romance.

The episode where there's a new teenager working on the paper that keeps screwing things up, and finally Lynda shows up at his home with a bunch of her friends and chews him out for being such an awful human being, and then as they're leaving he goes off-screen and shoots himself. In a story for teenagers! And of course Lynda is crushed by guilt, and an adult has to tell her, "Look, this kid had tons of other issues that drove him to suicide, he would have done this anyway, but this is why we have to be careful what we say to people--you never know when it's going to be the last thing they hear."

[dailyclassicwho]

ACTORS SHARED ACROSS THE WHONIVERSE ⇢ RICHARD E. GRANT as... 

The Doctor in “The Curse of the Fatal Death” (1999) The Doctor in “Scream of the Shalka” (2003) Dr. Walter Simeon | The Great Intelligence in “The Snowmen (Special) / The Bells of Saint John (7.06) / The Name of the Doctor (7.13)” (Doctor Who | 2012-2013)

[sometimesraven]

anyway i'm just gonna drop this here and continue my block-on-sight spree, I've said what I need to.

[mulderscully]

ten antis: david tennant already came back as ten for the 50th-

me about "ten" in the 50th: