"Also, I am a bit annoyed that Moffat created the War Doctor and decided to count the metacrisis as a regeneration to manufacture the danger of this being the Doctor's last life, but then this episode was the first we heard of it."
He went to such convoluted extremes (The Day of the Doctor could TOTALLY have just been told with Eight and RTD had said before that he didn't intend for metacrisis!Doctor to count as a regeneration) to make this The! Last! Regeneration! and then did nothing worthwhile with that at all. He barely mentioned it, it didn't even add to the tension as we'd ALREADY SEEN Capaldi in the episode prior, and it was resolved out of nowhere with little effort and no work on the Doctor's part at all.
WHY DO ALL THAT MYTHOLOGY STEALING AND RUINING IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A GOOD STORY PLANNED FOR IT???
He took a great opportunity for a Doctor Who story away form future writers in a really deliberate way and then didn't even USE it.
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Date: 2013-12-29 02:52 am (UTC)He went to such convoluted extremes (The Day of the Doctor could TOTALLY have just been told with Eight and RTD had said before that he didn't intend for metacrisis!Doctor to count as a regeneration) to make this The! Last! Regeneration! and then did nothing worthwhile with that at all. He barely mentioned it, it didn't even add to the tension as we'd ALREADY SEEN Capaldi in the episode prior, and it was resolved out of nowhere with little effort and no work on the Doctor's part at all.
WHY DO ALL THAT MYTHOLOGY STEALING AND RUINING
IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A GOOD STORY PLANNED FOR IT???
He took a great opportunity for a Doctor Who story away form future writers in a really deliberate way and then didn't even USE it.
What a mess. Moffat makes me so angry.