Kill Someone, Moffat!

[davejames]

Well to be fair, he hasn't exactly written a TON of episodes for DW yet.

Personally, I don't really mind. Even if I know the victims in Blink weren't "killed" per se, the Weeping Angels were so scary and frightening that it still affects me as if they WERE deaths when I watch it.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I keep misreading this as Kill Moffat, Someone!

Glad I'm not the only one.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I don't have a problem with it. Frankly the whole 'Where the Doctor goes, death follows.' think that started back in the Eccelston<sp?> season used to annoy the hell out of me.

Well, it's not like RTD just invented the whole idea. I think the Doctor has always been something of a danger junkie. It's inevitable that some would perceive it as death following him. Really, I think it's the other way around. Think of the Doctor as an interstellar storm chaser with a time machine, so it just looks like he's getting there first.

Although, I think there were some episodes that pointlessly killed off nice people. Killing Wilson in "Rose" seemed very unnecessary.

Lance deserved to die in "The Runaway Bride."

I think I would have liked "Love & Monsters" (or at least hated it less) if they'd left Moaning Myrtle dead. Half-resurrecting her has a talking face in a concrete slab was just creepy.

I remember waaay back when I was watching JNT at a convenion panel, he said he felt an obligation that someone had to die in every story. So we ended up with the restaurant owner gettign stabbed at the end of the Two Doctors, and the tourist bus being dissintegrated in Delta & the Bannermen. It seems rather pointless.

Yeah, killing the restaurant owner in "The Two Doctors" wasn't a good idea. For one thing, he just seemed too wacky for his death to have any meaning. For another, that scene always confused me. It didn't look like the stab wound was that deep. (I thought that was deliberate, not simply a matter of bad fight staging.) Also, since the character had been thoroughly established as a coward, an overactor, and a drama queen, I keep thinking in that scene that he's not really dying; merely playing up a dramatic death scene because he thinks he's dying.

 

[Thestral]

On screen, that is.

No natural causes, no living on in "The Matrix".

Six years of writing episodes and you still haven't done it!

But Moffat has killed somebody on screen, right in front of us, and in one of the most touching scenes of the show in what was an otherwise-terrifying episode.

I know you said "no natural causes" but Billy Shipton's death was so well-done I don't see how it doesn't qualify.

 

[Hoser]

I have to admit, after the death counts on some of the episodes, I find Moffat's to be even more enjoyable because of the lack.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Frankly the whole 'Where the Doctor goes, death follows.' think that started back in the Eccleston season used to annoy the hell out of me.

I loved it - then the guy gets it right between the eyes in the shopping mall.

I'm sure the body count will climb during the current season.

 

[Chaos Descending]

On screen, that is.

No natural causes, no living on in "The Matrix".

Six years of writing episodes and you still haven't done it!

But Moffat has killed somebody on screen, right in front of us, and in one of the most touching scenes of the show in what was an otherwise-terrifying episode.

I know you said "no natural causes" but Billy Shipton's death was so well-done I don't see how it doesn't qualify.

Ohhhhh touche! How could I have forgotten Detective Chief Inspector Billy Shipton?