#steven moffat who unabashedly writes dominatrixes all the time doesn't know what he did with 'do as you are told'? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

aerithisms · 6 months ago

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i think the weirdest 2013 discourse brained doctor who take i've seen is people who came back to watch capaldi era, realised it's good and that they really like the twelveclara dynamic, identify all the things that are compelling about it but then say "moffat doesn't know he did this though." bc they can't budge from the position that he's a hack so they have to convince themselves it's, like, only accidentally good

#blahs #dw #the take that moffat doesn't know he gave twelveclara intense psychosexual tension. girl be for fucking real #if you heard 'i'm not your boyfriend clara' and took that at face value it's not his fault you're ignoring the subtext!!!#steven moffat who unabashedly writes dominatrixes all the time doesn't know what he did with 'do as you are told'?#come on now you KNOW that is not true lmao #like it's not even subtle subtext either they clearly have A Weird Thing Going and you are supposed to pick up on it #this is not to say they necessarily fucked. or that they did not fuck. that part is to your imagination.#but the Weird Thing is deliberately palpable regardless #have also seen the take he doesn't know he wrote the doctorification of clara oswald which again is like. girl WHAT #moffat was possessed by a spirit when he wrote her the doctor's origin story beat for beat in hell bent i guess #anyway sorry for indulging in doctor who showrunner discourse it will happen again

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