invisiblespork replied to your post “bmouse replied to your post “I’m watching a backlog of the...”
Moffat sits in that weird place where he's able to write some absolutely lovely stuff but then just...completely miss the point. Like the last episode of 12 the advice to his future self is something like "always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind" which is like...a great line and sentiment. But contradicts so fucking much about how he wrote the past few seasons and how he writes in general??? It's so baffling how not self-aware he often is
I just got to that episode and cried the predictable buckets. I so agree with you. The man has no long term ability whatsoever. He knows how to apply soaring music and to tug at your heartstrings like no one’s business, but it has no staying power. Nobody is going to point to a single moment during his tenure as showrunner as something that *excels*, but we all know Blink is transcendent. He was great at the smallscale, working under supervision. He S U C K E D as the showrunner. He has absolutely no longterm vision.
(sidebar: I was actually legit APALLED that he made his bff Gatiss into the heroic WW1 commander of his final episode. Crawl out of your own ass aaaaanytime, Moffat. Just....anytime.)
bmouse replied to your post “I'm watching a backlog of the Capaldi/Moffat years of Doctor Who and I...”
Yikes, there’s a reason I stopped watching halfway through ten... brief smatterings of eleven also failed to impress me
I stopped watching 11 when he took a trio of black men as slaves. Like....if no one involved in the production of this show flagged this as a problem, I don’t want to be here. The hardcore sexism lightens up a little in series 9, but it’s by no means gone. Moffat is one of those dudes who thinks he can USE sexism because he’s ~above it. In short: he’s a giant douche canoe.
momentsofweakness replied to your post “I'm watching a backlog of the Capaldi/Moffat years of Doctor Who and I...”
I bailed on Capaldi 2 episodes in and after everything I've heard, I'm glad I did.
Capaldi is a treat, but he is often working with some absolute garbage. Like...if you missed the point of The Thick of It and thought that assholery is what makes Malcolm so compelling, you would be exactly as dumb as Moffat. He clearly thought, “Well, curmudgeonly old dudes are hilllllllarious hijinks” and proceeded to write just mindblowingly sexist garbage for Capaldi to say. And Capaldi has a lot of humanity to spread around---like all those great actors do---so he does more with his face than any of those horrifying jokes Moffat puts in his mouth. But still. The sexist jokes of series 8 are legit HORRIFYING. Like....throwback to the 50s levels of horrifying. And Capaldi does the best he can do, and is clearly better eqipped to handle the later episodes with the sexism turned waaaaay back, but still. That’s a lot of virulent sexism to wade through. Don’t bother.
