RTD address criticism about his writing style
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"New Earth" is arguably the weakest season opener so-far, although it was not a horrible, horrible episode as such (I'd give it a score of 5/10, not great but there's worse, like "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and "Cyberwoman") and I agree Cassandra's death is quite dramatic. "Partners in Crime" is a bit weak as well, but again the character interaction salvages the episode (along with the frantic, flighty directing).
"Love & Monsters" and "Boom Town" are criminally underrated episodes amongst a lot of fandom, I prefered them to more critically popular RTD episodes such as "Tooth & Claw", "Journey's End" and "Rose". RTD is a very mixed bag and his output is consistantly Marmite. "Waters of Mars" was very solid, but a bit overhyped.
Steven Moffat has not penned a genuinely bad or very average Doctor Who story yet, but since he's going write six episodes, at least one of them is inevitably going to be a dud (although hopefully his first season finale is going to flow better than half of RTD's season finales, with a similar feel to "Forest of the Dead" and "The Doctor Dances").
He's a good writer, he's just incompetent when it comes to writing plausible science fiction.
His Doctor Who fanfiction scripts don't so much require a suspension of disbelief as much as a total eradication of it.
His Doctor Who fanfiction scripts don't so much require a suspension of disbelief as much as a total eradication of it.
Doctor Who stopped being "plausible science fiction" in 1964.
Quite right. The Doctor Who universe is nonsensical and absurd. RTD maintained that tradition while inserting affecting character drama unlike any the show had ever seen.
Earlier than that, surely! By December 1963 at the latest! There's nothing plausible about 100,000 BC.
Ah, but that's implausible history. 
Doctor Who, much like Star Trek, always has and always will be pulp television, but Moffat still writes better thought through scripts.
Oh, I dunno about that. I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me how it is that the intentionally-damaged mantlepiece clock could have appeared in Reinette's bedroom to herald the return of the Clockwork Men in 1758 (as seen in the teaser of "The Girl in the Fireplace") when that same mantlepiece was supposed to have been disconnected from the S.S. Madame de Pompadour's 51st Century temporal network prior to 1758 when Reinette had it moved years earlier (as established in the final act of the episode).
A lot of fans are expecting as whole season of Blinks and Silence in the Librarys. A lot of fans are going to be bloody disappointed.
I don't expect a full season of "Blink" because Moffat isn't writing the whole season. 
Seriously, I expect one or two utterly brilliant episodes from Moffat and the rest to be solid, but I wouldn't be surprised if he had one that fell completely flat. That being said, I'm hoping the best for his season finale.
Seriously, I expect one or two utterly brilliant episodes from Moffat and the rest to be solid, but I wouldn't be surprised if he had one that fell completely flat. That being said, I'm hoping the best for his season finale.
I fully expect to enjoy Series Five of Doctor Who, and I fully expect to laugh at random posters on the Internet proclaiming that it's awful, Moffat's a hack, complaining that it's all drivel unworthy of any respect whatsoever, and generally making it clear that They Changed It Now It Sucks.
I think he peaked with "Blink" and no he's going to bring back the Weeping Angels (with likely diminished returns), although at least two of his episodes are going to be amazing and his season finale is going to flow better.
Fair enough.
And, for the record, "The Girl in the Fireplace" is probably my favorite episode of the revived Doctor Who. I just like pointing out that particular, incredibly obvious, plot hole when people get to be worshipping Moffat a bit too much.
Agreed. Some of these fans need to rewatch Coupling and realize that while much of it was brilliant, there were still a few Moffatt-penned clunkers.
Only in series 4.
Only in series 4.
Well, except for the Dalek.
There were clunkers even in Season One. That one where Jeff talks to the woman who doesn't speak English was painfully unfunny.
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