A fair few of us have expressed our dismay at the direction Doctor Who is going. I'm just curious at how much...and the current feelings towards Moffat.
Fire Moffat.
He wrote some great one off episodes in the RTD era and the first series with Amy & Rory was good but I really don't know what he's doing any more.
Rhoda - Hmmm... I tend to be the opposite. A coherent plot is important to me. It doesn't need to be realistic or non-fantastical but it must be coherent in its own universe. And that a massive dealbreaker with the present incarnation. What has gone before seems to not matter. For instance, all the 'not crossing the timeline' gets thrown out if that what the ending of the story needs. It leads to lazy writing, imo.
Rhoda - Hmmm... I tend to be the opposite. A coherent plot is important to me. It doesn't need to be realistic or non-fantastical but it must be coherent in its own universe. And that a massive dealbreaker with the present incarnation. What has gone before seems to not matter. For instance, all the 'not crossing the timeline' gets thrown out if that what the ending of the story needs. It leads to lazy writing, imo.
ETA: I love Clara. Favorite New Who companion hands-down. What I don't like about how she's being handled is the Magical Girl role she inhabits, plus the fact that she looks after children and likes to bake. I mean, c'mon. That's a housewife trope if I ever saw one. But putting aside tropes and looking at her purely as an individual? Can't get enough of her.
^I've seen you mention that a couple times, and my answer is HELL no. My one time-travel story is giving me enough headaches, thank you kindly. I love that stuff, but it's a pain in the ass to write. Y'all carry on though, if you want.
I love the idea of Clara - I just found her first two incarnations far more interesting than the one we're stuck with now. I thought the Christmas episode with her was fantastic, much stronger than a lot of the previous Christmas episodes. And I really love JLC and had done before she became a companion.
She came in as interesting and independent and one step ahead of the Doctor and now she's just another puppy dog that's constantly going out of her way to seek his approval. She had sooo much more potential than what Moffat's done with her
He's 900 year old Timelord for gods sake.
I do wonder -- Moffat, despite the issues I have with Adler, seems to do quite well when working with someone else like Gatiss and I adore 90% of what they've done with Sherlock. (Like, obsessively adore.) The stories there are 90 minutes and feel perfect -- just the right amount of fast action, just the right amount of quiet, just the right amount of character building. Is he trying to take that formula and squeeze it into a 44 minute Doctor Who show every week? 'Cause it's really not working. Moffat's first year as showrunner did not bug me as much as S6 and now S7.1 and S7.2 (which I want to set on fire).