#moffat negative

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Also I am so done with people pointing out that Moffat was dissatisfied with The Beast Below like that proves he's capable of thinking critically about his writing.

The Beast Below displays no faults not present, in spades, in his later work.

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thank you for attending the simulcast with me!!!!! hopefully next time we hang out, we won't have any moffat-lovers making our ears bleed haha

XDXD thank you for buying me a ticket after 6 AM Kara was like fuckit

aaaand I guess it's good that some people were able to unabashedly enjoy what the moff is doing? or something?

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i know literally nothing about dw but now im curious about what moffat did out of a morbid sense of curiosity

Ok how literally is literally nothing? Do you understand the concept of regeneration as applied to Time Lords?

Basically, Time Lords (usually Gallifreyans like the Doctor, although there are a few cases of other species being Time Lords, for instance River Song is genetically human but was prenatally exposed to time vortex energy and thus was functionally a Time Lady until Moffat totally screwed her over) can, at or near the moment of death, choose to "regenerate," which completely physically heals them and also (usually) gives them a totally different appearance and personality. It's still the same guy, with all the same memories and experiences, and there's usually some basic personality traits that carry through (the Doctor is almost always rebellious, inquisitive, and with a fondness for aliens of all types but especially humans), but he may be totally unrecognizable to people who knew him before.

There's also an upward limit of how many times it can be done although it's not really clear whether that's a biological limit or a cultural one.

ANYWAY the rumor is that Christopher Eccleson, who played the Doctor's ninth regeneration - one of my favorites, actually, and he left the show under kind of contentious conditions in the first place - has declined to return for the 50th anniversary special, and Moffat has instead decided to write in a "real" Ninth Doctor that happened before the one who appeared on the show, of who all subsequent regenerations have suppressed the memory of being. Thus fucking with the Doctor's personal continuity and pushing him right up against that limit on regenerations.

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prayforpredators replied to your post: Moffat, dude, if you don’t think the DW fandom is...

From what I hear that rumor is a fake, Bramble.

Crossing my fingers that it is. I wouldn't put it past Moffat, though.

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Moffat, dude, if you don't think the DW fandom is capable of totally dismissing bizarre twists of discontinuity you really haven't been paying attention

we already ignore one Doctor between McCoy and Eccleson, we can ignore two

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Would any of you who have already watched the new DW ep mind tagging posts about it as "#DW spoilers," please?

Against my better judgement (*shakes fist at moffat*) I'm going to be watching it soon but I'm probably going to wait to see if my sister wants to watch it with me, as is our usual habit.

Clara's already shown up on my dash a few times this afternoon and I don't think I've seen anything plot relevant but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

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Ok I'm no fonder of Moffat than a lot of you and will scream if I have to sit through another episode where Amy wanders around winsomely compromised so that the Doctor can save her

but can we stop pretending she's the only companion who has ever failed to move on

Sarah Jane Smith, despite a successful career as an investigative reporter, spent the rest of her life in near-complete social isolation chasing aliens, until the point that the neighborhood teenagers literally started breaking into her house

and Captain Jack Harkness turned Torchwood Three into the Harkness Home For Troubled Attractive People for the sake of hanging around the rift in the hopes that the Doctor would swing by to refuel

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joaniam replied to your post: Ok but seriously Moffat can go away and not come...

ty. it’s annoying now moff’s supporters can’t stand a word of critique against him. “But he writes ALL KINDS of women, and how women can be strong mothers” No. Not what we’re saying.

Moffat can write two kinds of women - strong independent capable female characters, and female characters who appear in more than one episode.