#steven-moffat

[machetesquirrel]

I’m just going to leave this here

[sparrowlucero]

The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):

This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:

They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.

anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me

[davidtennussy]

[dandelionjack]

moffat said i only get one chance i HAVE to fucking kill the companion and bring them back to life in 45 minutes if that’s all the time i have. companions have to be dead for a little while, it’s good for them, it’s like enrichment. adds flavour. and he was right

[giphit]

Moffat will come up with the sickest concepts ever when writing under RTD's showrunning but when he's showrunning himself he creates the power ranger daleks

[thesuburbanerd]

Steven Moffat coming back to Doctor Who after years away just to go after capitalism, organized religion as a cover for violence, the military industrial complex, AI, and “thoughts and prayers” in 46 minutes.

[khunkiseia]

Honestly i dont care if River Song is badly written or whatever. She makes my mom happy that theres a woman around her age thats presented as sexy and thats kinda all that matters

[ebenelephant]

already seeing people criticise the christmas special as being against covid restrictions. respectfully, no, joy was clearly very specifically mad about partygate and the hypocrisy of our elected officials.

[paintdoktahwho]

easy mistake to make

[cyber-corp]

“War is business, and business is booming.”

FUUUUUUCK MOFFAT I MISSED YOOOOOOOU AND YOUR UNSUBTLE POLITICAL ALLEGORIES

[regicidal-defenestration]

Joy to the World is very Steven Moffat. This is neither necessarily praise nor criticism it is merely an observation

[akajustmerry]

I think the nice thing about the Doctor and Rogue that is SHOCKINGLY NEW in terms of romance in the show is that there's no power imbalance. When you think of past romances between Doctors and companions, and even River and the Doctor to a certain extent, whoever the love interest is has usually been deferential in some way to the Doctor as an authority figure (which, yes, is very difficult not to do when the show often positions the Doctor as an ultimate authority). However, Rogue isn't dependent on the Doctor. The Doctor isn't a point of reference for him, a leader, a guide, or even a ride home to him. So to me, what makes that romance so sweet and so startlingly fresh even for something in 2024 is not really that it's gay, but that it's a more egalitarian/equal courtship than literally any romance on the show before. I fucking love that honestly.

[chaotic-lesbian-but-also-a-tree]

I love the doctor who fandom. For pretty much any given episode, half the fandom will love it, and the other half think it's the worst thing to ever exist. (This goes for doctors, companions, seasons, and creatures too)

[doctor-thedoctor]

the doctor and river song are unironically one of the most tragic love stories in modern media, but they keep getting undermined by writing that would rather go for cheap laughs and badly hidden fetishisations instead of fully leaning into the pathos of time travellers who keep meeting their soulmate in the wrong order

[dandelionjack]

do you think a susan twist copy has ever interacted with a clara oswald echo as they unconsciously battled for dominance along the strands of the doctor’s twisted timestream and despite both of them believing themselves to be ordinary humans with normal lives they looked into each other’s eyes and felt a glimmer of uncanny recollection of horrors yet to come

[tinkerbitch69]

I think the thing I love the most about Boom is that it’s such a simple but effective premise. No aliens, limited special effects, one simple set that’s more or less just a pile of rocks but still choc full of tension. Steven Moffat came back with the promise of Disney money and used precisely none of it lmao.

Say what you will about him but Moffat knows what doctor who is really about! Fucking around and finding out in some old quarry.