Aug
24th
2014
Doctor Who series premiere impressions in brief (spoiler-free) · 1:49am Aug 24th, 2014
There is only one word I can use to describe the series 8 premiere of Doctor Who:
Disappointing.
Capaldi is not selling me on his Doctor. Moffat continues to write self-aggrandizing, self-fellating tripe. That isn't even internally consistent with his own self-fellating tripe. There are continuity holes all over the place, established Eleventh Doctor characters aren't behaving like themselves, and Moffat continued his established tradition of resurrecting one-off villains and making them suck.
Very, extremely, severely disappointing.
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MythrilMoth · 316 views
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Wait, what happened? How is it it tripe? You can PM me.
I hope this isn't a sign that the series is losing its touch again. I mean, it did survive a decade of abscene with only a movie, but you'd think that after the 10th and 11th doctors generated such massive followings, they'd have a good idea of where to go with the next doctor.
2395529 It's been "losing its touch" ever since Moffat became showrunner, and it'll stay in this area of ugly decline until someone wises up and fires him.
2395568 In other words, it's the "Spongebob Syndrom" all over again. A show that changes who's in charge of what, and suffers because of it.
I have to agree, I didnt really 'feel' this episode. Normally with things like this you can get an instinctual feeling that something will be good or bad. This episode wasn't 'bad' in the traditional sense, but there was just something missing. Something that meant it failed to captivate me as a viewer, this was a poor start to the series.
My only high point was the phone call from Matt Smith, in my opinion that was a far better send off than the rubbish at Tenselore. (I dont care if it's spelt wrong, thats how much I didn't like that episode.)
2397148 I'd like the Time of The Doctor, even though My Doctor regenerated that day
2395568 what's wrong with Moffat? I like his writing.
2398023 There's more wrong with Moffat than I have the time or inclination to go into. Suffice to say he's self-aggrandizing, has an unwarranted sense of cleverness and smugness, tends to wank himself all over the script, writes scenes that make no sense to anyone except him, doesn't care a damn for continuity or character consistency, and has a bad habit of taking one-shot villains he creates, such as the Weeping Angels or the Clockwork Droids--and I will be the FIRST to admit that his creepy one-shot villains tend to be genuinely memorable and creepy--and RUIN them by using them again in ways that completely wreck what made them special and creepy.
2398162 the weeping angels were creepy in ALL there appearances, also, the 11th Doctor run was suppose to be like something fantastic, something a child would dream, more fantasy. The Doctor was a kindly soul who took kids on adventure, like Peter Pan
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I have come to the conclusion that Moffat isn't writing Doctor Who episodes, he's writing Doctor Who fanfiction.
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The problem is, if you want to do that kind of 'let's go on an adventure and defeat all the monsters, whee!' story, then you can't also have anything that hints at moral ambiguity, like the bits about how the Pandorica was created to hold the most fearsome being in the cosmos, or how 'doctor' means 'mighty warrior' in the language of the Gamma Forests. It's not tonally consistent.
2398584 Exactly, on both points.
So, so you guys think Moffat made it so death no longer mattered in Who, by reviving characters, and saving Gallifrey? Do you guys think. Gallifrey should have remained destroyed?
Also, what did you guys think of Matt? I liked him. Many say he was too weird to play the Doctor, or stupid, I felt hat he made the perfect Doctor, he acts insane, because well, after all the Doctor has seen, and since time is running through his noggin, I'd be surprised if he wasn't at least a tiny bit crazy.
2399227 I have no issues with Matt Smith as the Doctor, but he would have fared better under a more competent showrunner.
2399278 there are some Davies fans who think a Moffat is clever, but I agree, a Moffat was meh at sometimes.