#miss moffat

[meluisart]

Self indulgent drawing of Miss Moffat with the progress flag and the lesbian flag! Will forever treasure that photo of Nicola by the stage doors wearing a pride flag as a cape.

[pers-books]

Nicola Walker Behind the Scenes of The Corn is Green. Photographer: Cameron Slater.

[expelliarmus]

[doverstar]

was today years old when discovering that the eleventh doctor wears leather trousers. his trousers are made of black leather. Black leather with the ends rolled up and I. have no idea what to think-

[thespianwordnerd]

I think my favourite thing about 12 being so quickly established as Scottish in his first episode is that you later find out he knows perfectly well he's not actually Scottish in the typical ways, because, of course, he's still a Gallifreyan with a bad temper ("I'm not Scottish, I'm just cross"). But his era has a running theme of identity being something you choose and describe for yourself - especially names and genders (that quote about timelords being "billions of years beyond your petty human obsession with gender and its associated stereotypes" has aged like the finest of wines). So we can safely assume that 12 discovered he'd regenerated into a body with a Scottish accent, grey hair and attack eyebrows and just decided, so help him, he was going to commit to that fucking bit. At least for a while. And that is the most stubbornly Scottish thing of all.

[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

[lokittystuckinatree]

What the heck is it that makes River Song and the Master (especially Missy) remind me of each other?

Is it the flamboyant campiness? The mask of narcissism and chaos disguising an inferiority complex and control issues? The association with music? The manipulative flirtation? The “dramatic reveals”? The way they are the Doctor’s moral exceptions? The narrative role they hold opposite the Doctor? The way they parallel each other? The way they carry themselves? Personality? Vibes?

What the shit is it???

[heydrangeas]

[major spoilers for bbc’s sherlock if for some reason you are waiting for an unspecified future date to watch it]

okay bear with me here. so supposedly sherlock has not one but TWO siblings whom he’s forgotten due to childhood trauma. but mycroft remembers them and obviously their parents remember them. one of your children killing the other and then dying themselves would be something you’d mourn forever, presumably.

am I to believe that for sherlock’s ENTIRE life, his parents have not once referenced his other brother and sister? never had pictures of them in the house when sherlock was a teenager or visited their graves? never brought up their names, ever?? I can see them trying to forget their clinically psychopathic daughter, but their innocent son, too?

the only realistic explanation I can think of is that they all intentionally conspired to keep sherlock in the dark to protect him. or maybe are just totally okay with repressing things as a family. but I think what’s more plausible is that the writers just sort of had to make things work and ignored the things that didn’t fit in the immediate narrative.

[oceanwithinsblog]

i've taken a couple days to try and elaborate my thoughts on the season finale ... still, my reaction hasn't changed.

i firmly believe the acting for this season was REALLY great (especially ncuti and millie's), but the rest of it keeps feeling rushed and not cured in enough detail. plus, as good it was to have a nemesis back from 1975, it feels silly (at the least) to me that suketh has been hiding in the tardis and travelling with the doctor for SO LONG ... they've assisted to so many events and could have taken action wayyyy before to annihilate earth & co. why would they wait for the doctor to meet ruby and find out who her biological mother is? idk the explanation we've been handed in the last episode doesn't fully satisfy me. besides, i would have loved to know more about ms floods but oh well i guess i'll have to wait :) the whole last ep was like an anticlimax, to me.. i wished it had taken another direction, plot wise.

i don't know about you guys, this season felt very fresh and exciting in respect to the returning and brand new cast. at the same time, it was poorly written for some episodes and i personally don't agree with many "artistic choices".

i had VERY HIGH expectations (and i still hold them for the next season) but some of them weren't met. what about you?

[pinkfreakk]

Mhhhh can I be honest? I didn't hate it but I'm kinda disappointed... it left me more confused than before and it really shouldn't have. The start was fine, a bit of suspense although it was clear those deaths weren't permanent. Mrs. Flood, as always, was one of the most interesting particulars, as she keeps breaking the fourth wall and saying things that just make you ask why. Like what do they mean. I have high expectations for her and I genuinely like her for now.

There were some things I liked: the tardis, the way the other worlds were mentioned, the 73 yards thing. I enjoyed the memories of the past, how the time window tried to reply to ruby alone. I also liked the general emotion there was, and was sad to see ruby go so early.

Now... here come the problems: sutekh. What do you mean a literal God of death has been reduced to an obedient puppy? Like.. ruby got close and he just.. let her? He was fr dragged around like a dog and hasn't done much at all. His angels of death, or whatever they were called, used the dust to kill everyone and okay, they eliminated so many people, but here comes another problem. Like babes, why didn't you kill them off earlier, when they grabbed sutekh by the collar?😭 the plot armor was kinda insane imho. The general thing seemed good but when you stop to think about it it's different. I liked it at first, although not fully, and I wasn't bored, but by the end of it, more and more negative details just popped up. Another problem was the mother. I didn't despise it, it was very sweet, but at the same time I expected more because it was simply natural! This mystery, along with the snow, the hidden song, was milked way too much, and while I understand creating hype is important, too much of it for a rather simple reveal can make the latter disappointing, and it kinda was. Also what the hell... how did sutekh come back?? Did somebody get it... was he there since the fourth doctor? DID HE SEE THE FLUX AND ALL THOSE MESSES WHATTT. How tf.. guess that salt was for the toymaker only. Thank God they didn't bring trickster or they might have ruined him LMAO. I kinda expected ruby's mother to be a God.. but okay ig.

Overall, okay but not okay at the same time. I'm scared of what might happen after this. It's my favorite show and I would be devastated to watch it die because of a poorly written episode. :/

What do yall think?

[quantumshade]

gomez!master is by far the best one of nuwho and I will NOT hear otherwise. she feels so much like delgado!master in that her motivations are not exclusively world domination. even before her redemption arc in s10, she has a complex agenda of her own and sometimes that means her goals align with those of the doctor’s. i love seeing the master team up with companions it’s my absolute favorite thing. her dynamic with clara is absolutely fascinating and i find the “i want my friend back” motivation to be five million times more interesting than the “i want to Destroy You Forever” motivation or whatever it was that dhawan!master had going on

[meluisart]

Visited the National Theatre Archive today and had a good long look at the costume bible for The Corn is Green (2022). I was surprised to see that Miss Moffat was originally supposed to have a dark gray woollen cardigan, too. There was one photo of it where Nicola had it on, but alas I wasn't allowed to make a photo copy due to copyright law. Thankfully, I'm capable of drawing! The first one is drawn off of the photo, the other two are simply doodles, if you will.

[queerholmcs]

hbomberguy's thesis is Flawed. also i don't remember him ever mentioning gatiss

LITERALLY!!! he spends an hour and fifty minutes complaining about how he hates moffat like he's the only person responsible for the show and his entire beef with the show comes down to "i have only engaged with the material on a very surface-level reading and i think they're clever little detective stories and i want any adaptation of the material to be a detective procedural done as a serial with isolated episodes. how dare you call the show SHERLOCK (in all caps) and then spend the majority of the runtime showing us the characters and not the crimes. also john watson literally serves no purpose and sherlock himself is just an absolute asshole all the time, we know this because he says he's a sociopath and also here are three clips of him being a pedantic dick, i am very good at engaging with media. tsot was a stupid episode because it opens with an insanely overproduced and high-effort scene for the sake of one stupid joke about how sherlock is thoughtless about other people's lives and then most of the episode is just sherlock standing in a room talking, he's not even solving crimes." and i'm like. literally What Are You Talking About shdkshdkdhdk. did we watch the same show. i have never watched someone be so wrong about so many things with such conviction.

[anotherwatchedninja]

MOFFMAN

THERES NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN

I SAID MOFFMAN

TAKE THAT DOC OFF THE MINE

[gen-is-gone]

I mean I don't wanna just be like 'finally, episode I actually liked' about the moffat episode but. like.

finally, an episode I actually liked!

No seriously, holy shit my man pulled exactly zero punches that was fucking excellent

[ohmerricat]

would it add context to know that the BBC is just basically a tory propaganda machine at this point (For doctor who getting weird about the tracking robots)

i know i know i literally live here (didn’t use to until 2022, that’s why i didn’t grow up on british tv, but back to the point) in 2017 (!) it somehow wasn’t. it’s just such a severe drop in quality it feels almost palpable. oxygen straight up, without skirting over it, named unchecked capitalism as the ultimate evil that rids people of their humanity. what happened over a year that caused such a drastic shift in values? (i realise as i type that that’s not a rhetorical question. a showrunner changeover happened. even though k*rblam wasn’t written by chib it was obviously overseen by him)