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can i say it's brilliant to see so many ppl passionate about dr. who recently and idk how but you are one of the few dr tumblrs i follow but to my question. why do people not like moffats writing? do they want a different writer? do they not like the style or? personally i felt he's mad the series much more hard/dark sf in recent episodes something that was lovely for me to see since i felt no other hard/dark scifi had been on air for a while

Thank you!

I actually answered a similar question a while back and you might want to read that.

What do people want?

With some, the answer is quite easy - for them, RTD’s version of Doctor Who embodied all they love about the show and they would simply like to regain it. They’d prefer companions who’s normalcy is emphasised from Day One (imho, Clara’s storyline is essentially a RTD one, but this seems to be a point missed by many due to the mysterious nature of her introduction to the series). They prefer the overtly pacifist hero with a severe aversion towards guns. They like the style of emotional drama better, the fact that a companions story is very much told, on the surface, clear - Moffat has very complex, deep characters with amazing archs and great character development, but he doesn’t tie it neatly with a bow as RTD used to do.

(And then you would of course have Classic Who fans with their respective concerns, but they are really not a major voice among the Moffat hate, and I’d be hard-pressed to find a common point of criticism there.)

With others… I genuinely don’t know. Arguments over Moffat have reached the point where I don’t think some people would notice if RTD started to ghostwrite two seasons under Moffat’s name. They would still believe it to be awful.

I find you hard sci-fi comment interesting, because I - and others - have always felt that this described RTD better than Moffat. Not that either of them really writes it, but Moffat really started out writing a fairytale. The grand archs of season 5 are quite a change from RTD’s “it’s a season finale, there have to be Daleks here… and Cybermen… or at least the Master”. I guess I could see the point with TDotD - but Clara’s arch didn’t particularly feel like hard sci-fi either. (This is not be screaming “nooo”, I’m genuinely interested, please come back and elaborate - feel free to send fan mail or submit something if an ask isn’t enough.)