The Stephen Moffat Thread

[chelly]

Ah forget the kid I want to go. : )

 

[MickJo1701]

Yup, complicated storytelling is shit. I miss the days when Catherine Tate would just get turned in to a Doctor by unexplained magic. No idea what was happening but everybody in the cast was crying so it must have been good.

Gee, I wish the whole series was set in modern day London. Anything else confuses me.

Oh shit GL, looks like you got egg on your face:

Moffat is back.

Not sure about anyone else, but Moffat is back to head up series 8, the article says.

What utterly disastrous news...

I know, a sing song will cheer us up!

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Willing to bet Green Lantern will chime in and let us all know he didn't understand it.

I'd say personal attacks on other users are uncalled for.

I miss every female companion falling head over heels in love with the Doctor, ...

I don't, because Moffat continues doing that. Amy literally jumped the Doctor back in series 5, River went ahead and married him, and Clara can't stop flirting, either. And it's not like the Doctor seems to mind (except for Amy humping his leg, which made him take Rory along), since he even snogs with married lesbians, now.

... while visiting their parents every other episode. We need more episodes where the Mother has to explain to the Doctor what it does to her to have her daughter travelling around all of space and time with this alien.

You know, it's not really about the families. Yes, RTD used them a lot, but I can do without them. There's other recent DW stuff that is done very well, where we care about the characters, and they don't use the families at all. The 8th Doctor Adventures from Big Finish, where we only meet Lucie's aunt in two episodes, both set in the past, or the current comics by Andy Diggle. We don't need to know the companions's families, but they do need character arcs. Good ones.

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Have to admit, if this thread has done one thing it's tempted me to check out these comics that deal with Melody like the series should have.

 

[Aldo]

Willing to bet Green Lantern will chime in and let us all know he didn't understand it.

I'd say personal attacks on other users are uncalled for.

You're right it was uncalled for and I apologize for that remark.

 

[Saga]

Willing to bet Green Lantern will chime in and let us all know he didn't understand it.

I'd say personal attacks on other users are uncalled for.

You're right it was uncalled for and I apologize for that remark.

but its funny cause its true.

 

[Thestral]

Gandalf save us from bitchy fans.

Actually, now that I bring that up, if I was a parent and had a kid who was travelling the entirety of space and time with an alien who was the perfect gentleman, I'd think that was pretty fucking cool.

Somehow, I feel like most parents would NOT be okay with it.

Quite right. That moment from Jackie (and Mickey later) was brilliant because of being utterly true.

 

[Neroon]

I'd say personal attacks on other users are uncalled for.

You're right it was uncalled for and I apologize for that remark.

but its funny cause its true.

There's no need to continue along that line. Personal attacks are not cool.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Have to admit, if this thread has done one thing it's tempted me to check out these comics that deal with Melody like the series should have.

I hope I didn't give a false impression, because Diggle only wrote than one moment dealing with the Melody situation. But it's basically all that's needed. Would've liked a bit more, but that one moment was pretty good, and it's way more than Moffat did with it (which isn't saying much, because he did nothing with it after the end of "A Good Man Goes To War").

Still, Diggle's work is pretty cool, I like the current IDW series (which he does not write alone, btw) way better than the current TV episodes. Which is kinda depressing, but it is what it is.