Doctor Who 04x09 DO NOT WANT!

Yep, a bit late to the party with this one. Hope it isn't TOO repetitive for y'all. Certainly, I imagine, a lot of us have similar issues with this ep. *sigh*

I should state that, for the record, I was not a Moffat hater before this. He’s been getting on my nerves for a while, yeah, but I thought he was not without skill. I’m one of those out there who actually LIKED GitF, and while its biggest fail issues are character continuity, it does make for an interesting moment to try to make sense of and apply to the bigger picture. So, given that I don’t think I was already predisposed to disliking his stuff automatically (c’mon TEC/TDD was all SORTS of awesome), well… you know I’m for serious about my disappointment here.

Putting aside the shoddy, lazy, needlessly self-referrential writing, the telling not showing, the obvious gleeful ship squashing, the sexism stuff, which we’ll get to in a minute, let’s just focus on why this episode was immensely unsatisfying.

( Obviously big spoilers for DW 04x09 under here. Wherein I try and fail to retain some calm )

*takes deep breath*

I’m going to do my best to ignore the implications of this ep and hope that it doesn’t lock the Doctor into becoming a tard. I’m going to try very, very hard to look forward to the next four weeks and hope that RTD, as crazy as he is (was already and now he’s handed the reins over to this guy? *cries moar*), has a plan for us that doesn’t involve epic fail and/or soul crushing.

Doctor Who 04x09 DO NOT WANT!

Yep, a bit late to the party with this one. Hope it isn't TOO repetitive for y'all. Certainly, I imagine, a lot of us have similar issues with this ep. *sigh*

I should state that, for the record, I was not a Moffat hater before this. He’s been getting on my nerves for a while, yeah, but I thought he was not without skill. I’m one of those out there who actually LIKED GitF, and while its biggest fail issues are character continuity, it does make for an interesting moment to try to make sense of and apply to the bigger picture. So, given that I don’t think I was already predisposed to disliking his stuff automatically (c’mon TEC/TDD was all SORTS of awesome), well… you know I’m for serious about my disappointment here.

Putting aside the shoddy, lazy, needlessly self-referrential writing, the telling not showing, the obvious gleeful ship squashing, the sexism stuff, which we’ll get to in a minute, let’s just focus on why this episode was immensely unsatisfying.

( Obviously big spoilers for DW 04x09 under here. Wherein I try and fail to retain some calm )

*takes deep breath*

I’m going to do my best to ignore the implications of this ep and hope that it doesn’t lock the Doctor into becoming a tard. I’m going to try very, very hard to look forward to the next four weeks and hope that RTD, as crazy as he is (was already and now he’s handed the reins over to this guy? *cries moar*), has a plan for us that doesn’t involve epic fail and/or soul crushing.

Doctor Who 04x09 DO NOT WANT!

Yep, a bit late to the party with this one. Hope it isn't TOO repetitive for y'all. Certainly, I imagine, a lot of us have similar issues with this ep. *sigh*

I should state that, for the record, I was not a Moffat hater before this. He’s been getting on my nerves for a while, yeah, but I thought he was not without skill. I’m one of those out there who actually LIKED GitF, and while its biggest fail issues are character continuity, it does make for an interesting moment to try to make sense of and apply to the bigger picture. So, given that I don’t think I was already predisposed to disliking his stuff automatically (c’mon TEC/TDD was all SORTS of awesome), well… you know I’m for serious about my disappointment here.

Putting aside the shoddy, lazy, needlessly self-referrential writing, the telling not showing, the obvious gleeful ship squashing, the sexism stuff, which we’ll get to in a minute, let’s just focus on why this episode was immensely unsatisfying.

( Obviously big spoilers for DW 04x09 under here. Wherein I try and fail to retain some calm )

*takes deep breath*

I’m going to do my best to ignore the implications of this ep and hope that it doesn’t lock the Doctor into becoming a tard. I’m going to try very, very hard to look forward to the next four weeks and hope that RTD, as crazy as he is (was already and now he’s handed the reins over to this guy? *cries moar*), has a plan for us that doesn’t involve epic fail and/or soul crushing.