#bossham

Thank you!

I actually answered a similar question a while back and you might want to read that.

What do people want?

With some, the answer is quite easy - for them, RTD’s version of Doctor Who embodied all they love about the show and they would simply like to regain it. They’d prefer companions who’s normalcy is emphasised from Day One (imho, Clara’s storyline is essentially a RTD one, but this seems to be a point missed by many due to the mysterious nature of her introduction to the series). They prefer the overtly pacifist hero with a severe aversion towards guns. They like the style of emotional drama better, the fact that a companions story is very much told, on the surface, clear - Moffat has very complex, deep characters with amazing archs and great character development, but he doesn’t tie it neatly with a bow as RTD used to do.

(And then you would of course have Classic Who fans with their respective concerns, but they are really not a major voice among the Moffat hate, and I’d be hard-pressed to find a common point of criticism there.)

With others… I genuinely don’t know. Arguments over Moffat have reached the point where I don’t think some people would notice if RTD started to ghostwrite two seasons under Moffat’s name. They would still believe it to be awful.