rewatching the empty child gives me bad cognitive dissonance like i love nine and rose and jack just. so much. but moffats character writing and dialogue make me full body cringe i just hate him so bad and everything he writes is so smug and shallow and misanthropic and self impressed with how clever he thinks it is. not to mention misogynistic. honestly it just feels like self harm watching his work atp bc like a writer who lets themself stagnate in emotional immaturity and arrested development cannot tell deeply compelling or cathartic stories. its always gonna feel half baked and disappointing bc he lacks the capacity to reach deep emotional conclusions within himself. like it feels like a crime to me that such a noxious small minded emotionally unintelligent man was even allowed to work with all these amazing highly attuned and professional artists. he is a worm
