Dont you think he looks tired?

Anti-moffat blog. I've been getting really fed up with Moffat and what he is doing to Doctor Who, so I've decided to start a blog dedicated to "critiquing" his work. Ask box is always open!! If you are a pro-Moffat blog coming across this, please don't yell at me. I am open to hearing any arguments or opinions you have with hopes I agree (it would be nice to like Doctor Who again). Don’t be super shocked if I don’t agree, but I am respectful to everyone's opinions and will not yell at you for thinking something I may disagree with. That would be rude.

[timespacegirls]

i'm not ashamed to admit i screamed when i saw her

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

how i feel about fanservice when i’m the fan being serviced:

[piercedmysoul]

i for one love fanservice so fuck all of u people complaining THIS IS THE BEST give me one more rose tyler reference give me more david tennant being slapped give me more cheesy lines i want it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mophobia]

DOCTOR WHO IS BACK BITCHES!!!!!!!!

[mophobia]

I watched Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead last night so… y’all might be hearing from me a little if I can find some time in my busy schedule this week haha. God how can one man (I say man, I mean stupid little twat) make me so angry so easily.

[theoncomingdoo-dah]

imagine comparing the heart-wrenching end of doomsday to the manipulative, plot convenient feels bullshit that was angels in manhattan

there's a difference between

parallel universe

and

literally just a different time period you have a time machine why are we doing this oh you can't go back to that town? go to the next town over oh my god this is stupid

[ishouldreallybeelsewhere]

chibnall has a habit of declaring the doctor as the moral authority in every situation, and no one can question her without being the villain

like in the spider episode, when the trump guy was gonna shoot the spiders, like sure it was cuz he was an asshole but getting shot is more humane than starving to death in an enclosed space surrounded by other dead bodies

and this keeps on going on, so her companions might get mad at her, maybe, but they won’t actively question her moral judgement

and they should because three genocides in one episode? being fine with freezing someone in a half concious state for eternity despite saying that it was a fate worse than death like 10 episodes before? i’m not even gonna touch on kerblam

it’s very frustrating after seasons upon seasons where the doctor is shown to be not a very good guy, and the show questions those decisions

then again the previous doctors’ companions were actually characters and not exposition with the occasional character trait

[nilesmoon]

so I just heard the news

[unawakening-float07]

amy had like eight careers while she was on earth. she was a kissogram, a model, a journalist (?) and then an author like it’s so fucking annoying they couldn’t give her a more stable life

[virginalbehemoth-moved-deactiva]

aha what if i posted my twenty-four-page essay (5.6k words) on why Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who, on top of being so badly written it hurts, is so performative it’s actually deeply harmful….. no…….. unless…

[virginalbehemoth-moved-deactiva]

aha what if i posted my twenty-four-page essay (5.6k words) on why Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who, on top of being so badly written it hurts, is so performative it’s actually deeply harmful….. no…….. unless…

[ancientandforevcr]

If Spyfall had been written by a certain other writer, every other post would be talking about how gross it was that the Doctor casually handed the Master over to the Nazis after breaking his racial perception filter, but since it’s Chibnall it’s somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not noticed huh? lol

[loupettes]

loollll I love that last anon with their sexy confession! I have one of my own: I haven't seen GITF either! 🙈🤫

Oh, so many people have this very same confession it would appear! Let me help you all out by presenting you with a quick summary:

T H E   G I R L   I N   T H E   F I R E P L A C E

PAIRING: Moffat x His Ego x His Dick

CHARACTERS:

The Tenth Doctor: Time Lord, in general maintains the laws of time and makes sure everything is right in the universe, kinda important, but chucks it all away for I think 5 years of shagging?

Reinette Poisson: real, incredible leading lady of 18th Century France, a pioneer of arts and culture, appointed the Advisor to the King (Louis XV), literally brought nations together, a philosopher, a patron of the great philosophers of the Enlightenment, presented here as a physically sexy Strong Female who spends her life and subsequently dies waiting for a man because isn’t that what all women do? #relatable

Rose Tyler: formally pivotal in caring for and loving the aforementioned Doctor, now The Nagging Wife. See also: ‘Camilla’, home-wrecker, ‘your mother’.

Mickey Smith: the tin dog, but not as useful

A horse?

SUMMARY: Monsters are in search of nicking Reinette Poisson’s brain (perhaps because it is a wonderful marvellous brain but we’re never told, I think in this story it is a Plot Device to make her needing to be saved by a man), but the Doctor comes to the rescue! He unexpectedly falls in love with her (understandable considering she is Hot and Flirty), and must save her before the Droids claim her as their own. Either way, she waits. Meanwhile, Rose and Mickey have an adventure of their own and get caught, nearly die but thankfully don’t because of wine, and then get left behind on a spaceship while the Doctor saves Reinette and Rose waits to be saved too.  No more spoilers, you!

CHAPTERS: Far too many

TAGS: AU, romance (but the objective toxic kind), sex?, male gaze, anti-feminism, some pretty cool Clockwork Droids, really great costumes, sex, objectification, misogyny, sexy women, love requires the tolerance monsters

[cerullos]

this is still….so funny

[unknownknights-blog]

It was

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

Great thing about this episode is they blew the whole VFX budget for the season and basically the entire music budget on Tainted Love and Toxic that it resulted in cheaper effects and a cheaper score for the rest of the season and they really didn’t have to do that.

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

no, I digress, they did have to do that and aren’t we glad they did

[dex-xe]

DOCTOR WHO UNIVERSE QUESTION GAME

I spent way too long on this for it to flop but here we go!! Send me question numbers and I’ll try to answer!! (If this flops then I’m just going to answer all the questions instead)

CHILDHOOD

1. Did you like DW as a child?

2. Your age at the time of the revival?

3. First DW episode you ever saw?

4. Did you have any of the toys?

5. Which DW character did you play on the playground?

6. Monster(s) that scared you most as a child?

7. Joke/story you didn’t get as a kid?

8. DW opinion that has changed since you were a kid?

9. Who introduced you to DW?

10. Did you like Sarah Jane Adventures as a child?

DOCTOR

11. Who is your Doctor?

12. Your favourite Doctor?

13. Least favourite Doctor?

14. Best regeneration?

15. Do you like “Doctor-Lite” episodes?

16. Who is the most human Doctor?

17. Best multi-Doctor story?

18. Best Doctor monologue?

19, What do you think TenToo/MetaCrisis Doctor is doing now?

20. Best Doctor/companion pairing?

COMPANIONS

21. Favourite companion?

22. Favourite secondary companion?

23. Least favourite companion?

24. Best TARDIS Team?

25. Most underrated companion?

26. Most overrated companion?

27. Favourite companion’s family?

28. Who should have been a companion but wasn’t?

29. Favourite (canon or non-canon) DW universe relationship?

30. Who did you not used to like, but really like now?

EPISODES

31. Favourite episode ever?

32. Least favourite episode?

33. Which episodes do you skip?

34. Best two-parter?

35. Historical, present day or futuristic episodes?

36. Episode that will always make you smile?

37. Episode that will always make you cry?

38. Best run of episodes?

39. Best cliffhanger?

40. Favourite Christmas special?

SERIES

41. Classic Who or New Who?

42. Favourite series?

43. Least favourite series?

44. Which series do you skip?

45. Favourite series opening?

46. Favourite series finale?

47. Best series arc?

48. Thoughts on series 11/12?

49. How much of Classic Who have you seen?

50. Who should have had another series?

MONSTERS

51. Favourite monster/villain?

52. Most creative monster?

53. Monster(s) that scares you most?

54. Monster you think is too easy to defeat?

55. Least favourite monster/villain?

56. Monster you want to return?

57. In your opinion, what makes a monster good?

58. Daleks, Cybermen or Weeping Angels?

59. Best Dalek story?

60. Best one time villain/monster?

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

61. Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures?

62. Favourite Torchwood Team member?

63. Which Torchwood death made you saddest?

64. Do you rewatch COE or MD?

65. Favourite SJA Team member?

66. Mr Smith or K-9?

67. Maria or Rani?

68. Do you read the comics/novels or listen to Big Finish?

69. If you do, your favourite additional stories?

70. Do you like DW analysis (video essays, fan theories, etc)?

DESIGN/PRODUCTION

71. Favourite piece of alien tech?

72. Favourite piece of Murray Gold music?

73. Favourite TARDIS design?

74. Has the 2005 era CGI aged well?

75. Favourite Doctor outfit?

76. Monster with the best design?

77. Best show runner?

78. Best writer?

79. Best opening titles?

80. Will DW age well/stay popular in the future?

IF YOU WERE IN THE SHOW

81. Time period you’d want to go with the Doctor?

82. Planet/place you’d want to go with the Doctor?

83. Doctor you’d most like to travel with?

84. Companion you’d most like to travel with?

85. Monster you’d like to defeat/fight?

86. If you could go back on your own history (like Father’s Day), where would you go?

87. If you could ask the Doctor anything, what would you ask?

88. Historical figure you’d like to meet?

89. How do you think you’d meet the Doctor?

90. Would you travel forwards or backwards in time first?

IF YOU MADE THE SHOW

91. Historical event would you like to see in DW?

92. Issue you’d like to see addressed in DW?

93. Who would you completely erase from the DW universe?

94. One unanswered DW question you’d love to know the answer to?

95. Actor/actress you’d like to see play the Doctor?

96. Actor/actress you’d like to see play a companion?

97. Is DW “too political”?

98. Which characters fate would you changed?

99. What about DW could be improved?

100. If you could write an episode of DW, any ideas for what you’d do?

So yeh, please ask question!!!

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

i remember being 13 and reading a whole bunch of steven moffat quotes where he kept calling rose tyler annoying and too stupid for the doctor and being the “type of girl to get pregnant as a teenager” and going as far as to say he’d kill her off if she hadn’t been separated from the doctor before his run and me being like “....this feels bad beyond these things being said about a character i like” and only now being able to identify that it was classism. the emotion was classism

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

in response to being reminded of this i was like “should i see what he’s said about martha” and decided that no. i’d like to at least try to have a good afternoon

[tentoohasamortgage]

Okay, I’ve been thinking a lot about the discourse within the DW community (mostly on here) about River Song, and even though my opinion isn’t necessarily unpopular or unheard of, I wanted to give my thoughts to anyone who cares. 

So, I’m obviously a Doctor/Rose shipper through and through. Although this post isn’t about them, I still feel the need to mention their relationship, if for anything to set a boundary or precedent. Their relationship wasn’t flashy or abundantly apparent (at least from the beginning). I always really admired RTD’s writing in this aspect, because he created a relationship based on an intense mutual caring for one another, and didn’t immediately take advantage of that to create a romantic narrative. 

This directly feeds into my disdain for River’s storyline. Admittedly, I liked her in the beginning - it’s always great to see a strong woman in the spotlight, especially one who seems to be deeply complex in character. As the storyline went on, however, and I began to look deeper into her relationship with the Doctor, I unfortunately grew to resent the direction she went in. I’m not one of those people who believes it’s impossible for the Doctor to love anyone besides Rose, either. Their relationship just felt… wrong. Not genuine. Crafted. 

TLDR: River disappointed me because I liked her character, but I felt that her relationship to the Doctor was too much too fast, making it seem very unlikely. 

There’s so much more I could say, so if anyone wants me to elaborate, feel free to send me a message. 

[partyonthetimemachine]

What really gets me about River is that her plot line is complicated for the sake of being complicated, because Moffat thinks that things that are more complicated are clever. He thinks that giving sherlock all these convoluted assumption driven deductions and giving River a timeline that’s almost impossible to follow if you aren’t taking notes makes his work seem more intellectual, and this does a disservice to almost everything he writes because it’s not Clever, it’s just confusing, which is bad writing. Doctor Who has a relatively simple premise and a simple structure, and part of what I love about Martha and Rose and Donna is that even though they are complex characters, they are not convoluted. They have core values that remain in place and are willing to challenge the doctor when they need to. They are all relatable and normal and kind and strong and honest and all of these great things that get thrown out the window when you get to River because River isn’t a character, she’s a love interest and there is difference. This wasn’t very organized but I could talk about this for days. Just because it’s complicated doesn’t mean it’s good.

[hamster-on-fire]

i agree. i have nothing against people who really enjoyed rivers character and relationship with the doctor, but to me the stories felt like they had bits stuck on them for no real reason - just to make it look more complex or intricate, and then the final explanation for all these little subplots and background-y bits is always too simple. idk what im trying to say - but river just felt like she was there to be loud and shoot-y and to banter with the doctor, then she’d just show up a bit later and do the same thing. Maybe because her appearances were so sporadic, i dont feel as strongly for her as rose because we didnt see her relationship grow with the doctor as much, and since we mainly follow the doctors chronology (sort of) it just felt like ‘oh yeah shes your wife’ and that was that. it didnt feel like there was enough development. but i have no real clue what im saying, cos im not a tv writer and i know that its really not my place to criticise, so pls forgive this post 😂💕

again, if you love river and her storyline, pls dont be angry - i dont have anything against her - i justs didnt feel she clicked into the story, personally. :)