#cutting both him + da enemy in half n then going 2 town on his body was kinda crazy but liek .. in a refreshingly denji crazy way

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eep ! chainsaw man chappy is out ... well worth da wait huheue.

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A Comparison of RTD and Steven Moffat: Saving The Day

So for this analysis I’m going to compare when Moffat and RTD save the day well and when they save it poorly. There are a few bits of criteria I need to explain.

 First I will only be including main series, no Torchwood, no spin-offs, and no mini episodes.

Second, I have to define what makes a good and a bad ending (my examples will come from episodes written by neither of them): 

Bad endings include when the sonic saves the day (see The Power Of Three) (there are exceptions, see below), when a character spouts some useless technobabble that doesn’t make any scientific sense/when it doesn’t make logical sense in general, when the Doctor invents/presents a machine/equipment that miraculously stops the baddy and is never referred to again (see Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS), and any other ending I deem to be bad (see The Vampires of Venice)

Good endings include when the sonice activates a device that has been well established to save the day, when technobabble is used that actually makes some scientific sense, and just generally when the baddy is destroyed in what I deem to be a creative manner that makes sense with all the things that had been set up in that episode (see The Unquiet Dead).

There will also be cases where there isn’t really a day to be saved, however this happens more often with Moffat.

Let us begin (obviously there will be spoilers but the last episode in the list aired nearly 4 years ago so what you doing with your life).

RTD:

Rose: Bad

What even is anti-plastic?! Like seriously, he’s faced the Autons loads of times and has never thought to use it any other time.

The End Of The World: Bad

The Doctor just goes up to the appearance of the repeated meme (ha meme) and rips its arm off. He then just summons Cassandra back by twisting a knob which apparently everyone can do if “you’re very clever like me”.

Aliens Of London/World War Three: Good

Just nuking them all was a bit dodgy but I’ll give it to him purely because it had been set up earlier in the episode and it is a genuine option that could have been taken.

The Long Game: Good

The heating issue was set up within 2 minutes of the episode starting. It’s always good to see the Doctor using his enemies weakness against them.

Boom Town: Good

Only just. It’s technology that hadn’t been showcased ever before and came out of nowhere, but I’m allowing purely because it was setting up The Parting Of The Ways.

Bad Wolf/The Parting Of The Ways: Good

See above. It was set up the story before so it works.

The Christmas Invasion: Bad

This was so close to being good. If RTD had just let the Sycorax leader be honourable then everything would have been fine. Instead he had to let him be dishonourable and then the Doctor through the Satsuma at a random button that for no apparent reason caused a bit of floor to fall away.

New Earth: Bad

It only makes sense if you think about it for less than 10 seconds as just pouring every cure to every disease ever into a giant tub and then spraying said supercure onto them all, then having them hug each other to pass it on. That is suspending my disbelief just a bit too far.

Tooth And Claw: Good

Everything is set up in the episode so I’ll allow it but I fail to see how Prince Albert had the time to ensure that the diamond was cut perfectly.

Love And Monsters: Bad

It’s Love And Monsters. Need I say more?

Army of Ghosts/Doomsday: Good

It was very clearly set up throughout the episode.

The Runaway Bride: Bad

I don’t like how a few bombs can supposedly drain the entire Thames.

Smith And Jones: Good

All the events were well established

Gridlock: Good

It’s a fairly bland way to save the day, just opening the surface to all the drivers. But how else could he have done it?

Utopia/The Sound Of Drums/Last Of The Time Lords: Bad

As much as I like the idea that he tuned himself into the archangel network, he basically turned into Jesus. It is arguably the least convincing ending in modern Doctor Who history.

Voyage Of The Damned: Bad

Why was he the next highest authority? If he’s the highest authority in the universe why didn’t they default to him in the first place? If not then why not default to Midshipman Frame? And if he’s somehow in between them then why? Also Astrid killed herself for no reason when she easily could have jumped out of the forklift.

Partners In Crime: Good

It works in the context of the episode, but I don’t see why they needed two of the necklace things.

Midnight: Good

It’s human nature, you can’t get more well set up than that.

Turn Left: Good

It works logically

The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End: Bad

Donna just spouts a load of technobabble whilst pressing buttons and then the Daleks are magically incapacitated.

The Next Doctor: Bad

Why do the infostamps sever Hartigan’s connection with the Cyberking? As far as I remember it ain’t explained.

Planet Of The Dead (co-written with noted transphobe Gareth Roberts): Good

A good couple scenes are dedicated on getting the anti-gravs set up.

The Waters Of Mars (co-written with Phil Ford): N/A

The day isn’t really saved cause everyone still dies anyway.

The End Of Time: Good

Using a gun to destroy a machine is much better than using the sonic to destroy it.

Summary for RTD:

Out of 24 stories written by him, I deem 10 to be bad endings with 1 abstaining. That’s 41.7% of his episodes (43.5% if we don’t count any abstaining).

Steven Moffat:

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances: Good

You’ll see this a lot with Moffat, he knows how to explain things without stupefying levels of technobabble. “Emailing the upgrade” is a perfect example of this.

The Girl In The Fireplace: Good

Some basic logic, the androids want to repair their ship, but they can’t return to it, they no longer have a function so they shut down.

Blink: Good

Always loved this one, getting the angels to look at each other, however they do look at each other sometimes earlier in the episode.

Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead: Bad

This is more of a problem with the setup of the episode, I don’t like that he can negotiate with the Vashta Nerada. I’d rather see them comprehensively beaten, but I guess it’s good for the scare factor that they can’t be escaped from.

The Eleventh Hour: Good

He convinced the best scientists all around the world to set every clock to 0 all in less than an hour. In the Doctor’s own words “Who da man!”

The Beast Below: Good

The crying child motif pretty much ended up saving the day (well for the star whale, life went on as normal for pretty much everyone else).

The Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone: Good

The artificial gravity had briefly been set up earlier so I’ll allow it.

The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang: Good

Everything had been set up perfectly, the vortex manipulator, the Pandorica’s survival field thingy, the TARDIS exploding at every moment in history.

A Christmas Carol: Good

Literally the entire episode is the Doctor saving the day by convincing Kazran not to be a cock.

The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon: Good

The silence’s ability to influence people is their whole thing, so using it against them is a good Doctory thing to do.

A Good Man Goes To War: N/A

The day isn’t really saved, Melody is lost, but River shows up at the end so is all fine? I love the episode it’s just the day isn’t really truly saved (yes I know Amy was rescued but she still lost her baby).

Let’s Kill Hitler: N/A

There isn’t really a day to be saved. They all get out alive but no one is really saved other than maybe River but we all knew she was gonna live anyway.

The Wedding Of River Song: Good

Whilst opinion is divided on the episode, the ending still works. the Tesseracta was established in Let’s Kill Hitler, and the “touch River and time will move again” was established well in advance.

The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe: Bad

I don’t like how the lifeboat travels through the time vortex for no reason but to rescue the dad. It don’t make no sense and I don’t think it’s explained

Asylum Of The Daleks: Good

Oswin had access to the Dalek hive mind so of course she should be able to link into the controls and blow everything up.

The Angels Take Manhattan: Good

Paradoxes really do be something powerful, and they even acknowledge how nobody knows if it’d work so I’ll let it slide.

The Snowmen: Bad

Lots of people cry at Christmas, why are the Latimers anything special?

The Bells of Saint John: Good

The whole episode is about hacking so why shouldn’t the Doctor be able to hack the spoonheads

The Name Of The Doctor: Good

It was the story arc for the season pretty much, so of course it was explained well in advance.

The Day Of The Doctor: Good

Both the storing Gallifrey like a painting and the making everyone forget if they’re Human or Zygon works in the context of the episode.

The Time Of The Doctor: Bad

Since when were the Time Lords so easily negotiated with?

Deep Breath: Good

I like the dilemma over whether the half-face man was pushed or jumped.

Into The Dalek: Good

It’s set up well with this new Doctor’s persona of actually not being too nice of a guy (at first).

Listen: N/A

There isn’t a day to be saved. It’s just 45 minutes of the Doctor testing a hypothesis and I low-key love it.

Time Heist (co-written with Steven Thompson): Good

It works logically so I’ll allow it however it isn’t very well set up at all.

The Caretaker (co-written with noted shithead Gareth Roberts): Good

The machine to tell the Blitzer what to do was set up well in advance so I’ll allow it.

Dark Water/Death In Heaven: Good

The fact that Danny still cares even as a cyberman is set up fairly early on after his transformation.

Last Christmas: Good

He does use the sonic to wake up Clara but he convinces the others to wake up through talking so I’ll allow it.

The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar: Good

It’s set up well with that little scene from actually inside the sewers.

The Girl Who Died (co-written with Jamie Mathieson): Good

IDK why the vikings would randomly keep electric eels but they’re set up well so I’ll ignore it. 

The Zygon Inversion (co-written with Peter Harness): N/A 

Not including this one as it’s only the second part and I’d argue the ending is most likely Harness’.

Heaven Sent/Hell Bent: N/A

Again there isn’t really a day to be saved, yes Heaven Sent really is amazing but it’s only the first part and, being completely honest, he dies several billion times before finally getting through the wall.

The Husbands Of River Song: N/A

Again there isn’t really a day to be saved here.

The Return Of Doctor Mysterio: Good

He gets Grant to catch the bomb which is good. But he does just sonic the gun out of Dr Sim’s hand and says UNIT is on its way which just sort of wraps it up very quickly.

The Pilot: N/A

No day to be saved here.

Extremis: Good

You could technically call it the sonic saving the day, I consider it to be the Doctor emailing the Doctor to warn him of the future.

The Pyramid At The End Of The World: Good

The fire sanitising everything makes sense and it’s in character for Bill to love the Doctor enough to cure his blindness in return for the world

World Enough And Time/The Doctor Falls: Good

Yes it is the sonic just blowing the cybermen up, but it’s blowing them up with well established pipelines so I’ll allow it (also the story is amazing).

Twice Upon A Time: N/A

No day to be saved here. Just Doctors 1 and 12 getting angsty about regenerating.

Summary for Steven Moffat:

Out of 39 stories written by him, I deemed 4 to be bad with 7 abstaining. That’s 10.3% of his episodes (12.5% if we don’t count any abstaining).

Conclusions:

Moffat was much better at saving the day than RTD

Moffat liked telling stories where the day didn’t actually need to be saved

I’ve spent way too long on this and I need to sleep

If I spent as much time on this as my coursework I’d probably pass

If you’re still reading this, you probably need to get a life

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Americano: No hablo su Jesu Cristo  Chapter 2

Chapter 1

Ship: Chibs x OC

Word Count: 2,565 Words

Synopsis: Isa confronts her uncle for working with Zobelle. Jax and Chibs learn who Isa is and why she hates them so much.

Rating: M

Warnings: Strong Language, Mentions of Death and Attempted Suicide/Self-Harm

A/N: I know it’s been a long time since I posted part 1! Here is part 2. I hope everyone likes it. Please let me know if you want to be tagged!! Enjoy!

Her POV

As soon as Zobelle drove away she jumped out of her car, furious at her uncle. “¿Qué crees que estás haciendo? ¿Cómo puedes trabajar con ese cabrón?”

“Es necesario para los negocios, mi sobrina.” He nodded to one of his men who sped off on his motorcycle.

“You trade one devil for another. They want us dead more than the Sons do!”

“I traded one devil to deal with the other. Once I have the Sons taken care of, I’ll deal with Zobelle.”

She sat down next to her car with her hands on her head. Her uncle was the only person she had left to remind her of her father. Growing up, she was closer to her father than anyone, and when he was taken away from her, she traveled down a path that only her uncle was able to save her from.

He reached down and helped her stand up. Marcus wrapped her in a hug before leading her to the passenger side of her car. He climbed into the driver’s side and drove away. “It’s been a long time since you’ve visited, Isa,” he said.

“If you and Tía Diana let me stay with you…”

He shook his head. “No. I want to keep you as far away from this life. I promised Mateo that I would keep you safe.”

“Then please let me move out. I can live in Stockton or Oakland. Amo a mi tia y tio, but I can’t live on that reservation.”

He grabbed her wrists and flashed them upward. “Am I able to leave you alone without finding you on the bathroom floor again?”

She looked down at the puckered, red flesh on her wrists. She lost her father two years after she lost her mother. She had grown so numb and empty that she would occasionally test herself. If she cut here, would she still feel pain? One time, though, she’d lost too much, and her uncle found her on the floor in a pool of her own blood. However, after she left the hospital, he sent her to live with her aunt and uncle at Wahewa. He wanted her out of California, but she refused to live in Nevada. Isa pulled her wrist away and rubbed it, remembering that dark time in her life. She had gotten help, learned to move on, and found other - healthier outlets to express herself: her hatred of the Sons of Anarchy was nice start. There wasn’t anything wrong with her; they were to blame for her problems.

“I’ve been doing a lot better. Aunt Dana has me gardening to reconnect with my roots. She says it’s productive and therapeutic.”

He raised his eyebrow.

“Look, every time I have any problems or feel like I’m going to relapse, I call my doctor.”

“Lo sé. She has to call me every time you do.”

She smiled. “What about confidentiality?”

“Does not exist when you’re on the Mayan payroll.” The car pulled into his driveway. “When this shit with Zobelle is over with, then we can buy you that place,” he said pointing to the small home adjacent to his.

She hugged Marcus as she climbed into the driver’s side. “Why don’t you come down for dinner next week? Diana misses you,” he said.

“Of course.” Isa put the car in reverse. “Te amo!”

“Te amo!” he waved.

She pulled out of the driveway and turned toward home.

Chibs POV

They watched as her car drove down the street. They decided instead of waiting until next week that they should grab her now. It gave her less time to gather more information about them. Chibs and Jax followed slowly behind her, leaving plenty of space between them. They followed her in the opposite direction of Wahewa. She led them through Oakland to a cemetery on the outskirts of town. They parked their bikes and followed her. Chibs drew his gun and kept it on her as she stopped in front of a marble headstone that read Mateo Alvarez. He and Jax slowly approached her. She didn’t move as they grew closer. They stopped two rows behind her and watched. They saw her wipe her eyes as she bowed her head in prayer. When she was finished, they were shocked to hear her speak out loud. “Are you going to kill me at my father’s grave? It’s almost poetic.”

Jax lowered his gun. “No. We just want to talk.”

She turned to look at them. Her green eyes piercing through Chibs. The pure hatred in them burned right through him as he kept a steady eye on her. “I have nothing to say to either of you.” She tried to storm past Jax, but he grabbed her wrist. She spun around fast and hit him square in the nose, causing him to release her. Chibs ran after her and grabbed both wrists, feeling the scars. “¡Déjame ir, hijo de puta!”

“Sorry, lass. My Spanish isn’t verra good. Care to translate?”

She spit at him. “I said let me go, motherfucker.”

They forced her to sit against a headstone as they aimed their guns at her. “Why were you meeting with Zobelle and Alvarez today?” Jax asked.

She wouldn’t look at them. “You know I won’t hesitate to shoot you here and now.”

“I know. I’m very well-versed in how you treat enemies of your club.”

Jax stepped closer to her with his gun. “Fine! I don’t want you to start another war with my uncle.”

He stopped and looked at her. “You’re Alvarez’s niece?”

She smiled. “What’s the matter? Did you just realize how big of a fuck up you are?”

“No, but if you’re giving information to your uncle about Wahewa, you have bigger problems than us right now.”

“I’m not stupid. I’m not going to give them that kind of information knowing that you’d kill me.”

“Then why were ye meetin’ with Zobelle and Alvarez today?” Chibs said.

She glared at him. “I was visiting my uncle. I don’t like that he’s dealing with Zobelle anymore than you do, Scottie.”

They looked at each other. “You were really just visiting?”

Isa released a long, exasperated sigh. “Yes. If I want to take my revenge out on SAMCRO, I’ll do it myself. I’m not going to give my uncle firepower to start another war with you. I’m not about to lose more family.”

Jax looked at Chibs who shrugged. “Why do ye hate us so much, lass?”

She looked at her father’s grave and then back to Chibs. “I’ll give you one guess.”

“Shite. Let her go, Jackie.”

Jax lowered his gun and shook his head. “Go back to Wahewa,” he said.

She stood up and dusted her jeans. “I’m not one of your old ladies to boss around,” she said defiantly.

Jax pointed his gun at her. “Leave! Now!”

She rolled her eyes and walked back to her car. “Well, at least she’s not telling the Mayans about our ammunition supply,” he said to Chibs.

“Aye, but she’s angry with us for killin’ her da.”

“She’s just one girl,” Jax said, “I don’t think we need to worry about her.”

“Oh no, yer right there, Jackie Boy,” he said sarcastically, “she’ll only tryta pop our tires ev’ry time we are there.”

Jax smiled. “I guess she can be your problem then. Next time we are there for a pick up, you get to keep an eye on her.”

“Half Sack is better at babysittin’ than I am,” he said as they headed back to their bikes.

“Right, but he’s tailing Zobelle.”

Chibs strapped his helmet on. “Dè bha mi a ‘dèanamh ceàrr…” he muttered under his breath.

“Hey,” Jax said, “it could be worse.” He winked at him before revving up his engine.

Chibs laughed. “It could be much worse.”

Her POV

She didn’t pay attention to the odometer as she sped towards Wahewa. All she could feel was anger welling inside her. Anger towards SAMCRO. Anger towards Alvarez. Anger towards herself. She didn’t want to keep living on a shitty reservation, but her uncle refused to let her move home. She didn’t want SAMCRO near her dear aunt and uncle or the Wahewa, but they needed the money. She didn’t want to be this angry, but it’s the only emotion she was familiar with.

When she pulled into the drive, her Aunt was sitting under the canopy of their house weaving. “I’ve been waiting for you to come back,” she said, “Where have you been, Isadora?”

“Oakland.” She sat down on the steps in front of her.

“What on earth were you doing in Oakland? I thought Marcus told you to stay put for now.”

Isa sighed. “Since when did I listen to anyone, Biazi? I felt the need to see my family.”

Dana sat down next to her. “If SAMCRO finds out you’re his niece…”

“They know.”

“What!”

“Two of them followed me today. Jax and that Scot.”

“Well what happened?”

“They questioned me and asked me if I shared any information with Tio Marcus. I told them no. I can only assume now they are going to watch me like a hawk the next time they’re here.”

She shook her head. “No. The next time they’re here, you’re leaving. I don’t care if you hang out in Oakland, but just leave when they show up.”

Isa stood up. “It’s time for bed. I’ll see you in the morning.”

“Isa, I’m serious.”

“I know, Aunt Dana. Good night.”

***

Once a week they would arrive, and once a week they would collect their ammunition. A week had passed and it was time for their pick up. Dana had given her a shopping list full of things she needed picked up in Charming. Isa heard them pulling up the drive, so she grabbed her keys and hopped into her car. She rolled her eyes she watched their van pull up. She waited until they parked before putting her car into reverse. Isa looked in her rearview mirror and saw Chibs and Jax blocking her path. “Move, assholes, or I will run you over,” she said.

Chibs walked over to her window and leaned in. “Where do ye think yer goin’, lass?”

“Far away from you,” she said, annoyed.

He smiled. She could tell he enjoyed being a huge inconvenience to her. “Based on yer last adventure, I canna allow that.”

She started moving her car, Chibs moved with her. “Jax, call off your dog.”

“Afraid I can’t do that, darlin’.”

“I’m not going to see my uncle. If I showed up again, today, he’d ship me off to Nevada.”

Chibs let go of her window. She shook her head and continued backing up, before speeding away toward town. Isa looked in her rearview mirror waiting for motorcycles to appear behind her. Glad to be free of the reservation, she pressed on the accelerator and allowed the warm, Californian air to whip through her hair. She turned the radio up and enjoyed the peaceful drive into town. It wasn’t long before she pulled into the small grocery store. Isa parked the car and grabbed her list. It wasn’t until she got out of her car did she see him leaning up against his parked bike.

“You’ve got to be shitting me,” she said, “what are you doing here?”

He smiled. “Jax has tasked me with keepin’ a tail on ye.”

“Dios ayúdame,” she said under her breath. Isa stormed over to the biker and crossed her arms. “I don’t need a tail, so hop back on your bike and go back to your club.”

“He dinna trust ye. Besides, ye told us yer gonna get yer revenge on us eventually. I need to make sure tha dinna happen.”

She looked around at the other shoppers in the parking lot. She was not one to make a scene in public, but she was ready to do whatever she needed in order to get rid of SAMCRO. “Then leave my tribe alone. You assholes are the reasons why I have no family, so I have nothing left to lose.”

Chibs looked around. “Tha may be, lass, but yer not gonna do anything stupid while I’m around. If anybody understands the need for revenge…” he reached up and touched the scars on his cheeks. “Jus’ hurry up and get yer things so we can get back to the reservation.”

For once, Isa didn’t argue with the Scot and walked into the grocery store. Before entering, she turned and saw him sitting on his bike watching her, making sure she entered the store. She grabbed the few things she needed and headed back to her car. Chibs was still waiting on his bike for her. She then drove to the nearest home and garden store. She needed to get supplies to build a better box garden for her flowers. She grabbed what she needed and saw him still sitting on his bike, waiting for her. After she loaded her car, Isa approached Chibs. “I was going to stop at the diner for some lunch,” she said, “you might as well come in with me.”

“I thought ye hated us,” he said.

“Yeah, but I’m not an asshole. Everyone needs to eat.”

He looked at his phone. No missed calls or texts. “Fine. But we should make it quick.”

They drove to the diner and ordered something small. As Isa sat across from him, she glared over her cup of tea. “Look, I canna eat with ye starin’ at me like tha.”

“Why did you do it?”

“Do what?”

She sighed and set her cup down. “The war with the Mayans. Why would you murder my father in cold blood?”

Chibs shook his head. “Lass, it’s not that simple. Both sides lost people. Yer da just happened to be caught in the crossfires.”

“Do you know who he was? He was president before Marcus. They found him in a pool of his own blood in his bathroom. His throat was slit and the Anarchy symbol carved into his chest. That doesn’t sound like crossfire to me.”

He didn’t respond, but continued looking at her. He couldn’t help but feel somewhat empathetic towards her. Chibs knew that kill wasn’t theirs, but he didn’t have enough proof to show her. He finished his drink and threw some cash on the table. He stood up and looked around at some of the other customers staring at them. “Time ta go.”

She grabbed her bag and stormed out of the restaurant ahead of him.

Chibs POV

It was after church and Chibs asked to speak with Jax in private. They both walked outside to the picnic tables and lit their cigarettes. “Do ye remember when the Mayans lost their original president?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Tha’s Isa’s da.”

He took a long drag on his cigarette before replying. “She thinks we killed Mateo?”

Chibs nodded. “We gotta find out who did it, Jackie Boy. She won’t stop comin’ after us until she knows the truth.”

“I’ll give Otto a call and see if he can’t do some digging around.”

Relieved, Chibs jumped off the table and walked back into the bar for a drink. He knew she would stop at nothing until she avenged her father, because he knew all too well how badly the vengeful feeling would eat at her until it was fulfilled.