Moffat has been such a disappointment as a showrunner on Doctor Who. He's a much better storyteller when working at a smaller scale and not as the sole person in charge. When doing just one or two episodes a year under RTD or when co-running Sherlock's brief seasons with Mark Gatiss, he seems to be able to do plots that hold together and have an appropriate number of twists. But his timey-wimey puzzlebox stories don't necessarily scale up to work as arcs over multiple seasons of Doctor Who. I don't know how the dynamics are in the DW offices, but it just seems like there is nobody who tells him when something isn't working.
Parting of the Ways was so much better than either Ten or Eleven's regenerations.
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Date: 2013-12-29 06:56 am (UTC)Moffat has been such a disappointment as a showrunner on Doctor Who. He's a much better storyteller when working at a smaller scale and not as the sole person in charge. When doing just one or two episodes a year under RTD or when co-running Sherlock's brief seasons with Mark Gatiss, he seems to be able to do plots that hold together and have an appropriate number of twists. But his timey-wimey puzzlebox stories don't necessarily scale up to work as arcs over multiple seasons of Doctor Who. I don't know how the dynamics are in the DW offices, but it just seems like there is nobody who tells him when something isn't working.
Parting of the Ways was so much better than either Ten or Eleven's regenerations.