#Steven Moffat

[thefiresofpompeii]

the doctor arrives in the middle of a warzone and says: “give it time, everywhere’s a beach eventually” . and suddenly his inconceivable age becomes evident: he’s more of a geological process than a man. erosion is an inevitability

the gentle tide will lap at the landmines on the sand and smooth them into seaglass. no conflict lasts. that profoundly alien, eternal perspective demonstrated in just one line — ruby realises this person has seen everything and knows better than any of us that in the end all is sand and water and story and stillness

as you’ve probably already figured out, this is from BOOM. once again moffat appreciators how are we doing this fine evening

#licks the crumbs of pre-released dialogue from the palm of DWM like a wild horse #sorry for dramatising 1 sentence i’m insane (positive) #also the. anyone else getting a thasmin-in-lotsd vibe from this exchange? ‘you promised me a beach’ #doctor who #boom #doctor who series 14 #doctor who season 1 #ncuti gatwa #millie gibson #steven moffat #ruby sunday #fifteen #fifth doctor #dw #doctor who magazine #jamie.txt

[belpheg0r-luna]

If russel t davis keeps mentioning rose and making her important to the plot of the new seasons of doctor who then i will have to think of him the same way i think of moffat - much too self-congratulatory to the point of ruining the art that they have the responsibility of taking care of.

#i just think that being self referential for the sake of nostalgia can really quickly turn into lazy and unexplored writing and i dont want #that for ncuti or for russel either #i kinda have a feeling that russel has learnt his lesson and wont do this again but lets see #russell t davies #steven moffat #rtd #rtd2 #rtd2 era #rose tyler #billie piper #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #moffat era #ncuti gatwa #fifteenth doctor #doctor who #belphegor luna

[wispedvellichor]

Your Honour he is so fucking goofy

#doctor who #doctor disco #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #doctor who text post #nuwho #moffat #steven moffat

[fanonical]

all steven moffat episode titles be like "The Impossible Of The Doctor"

all chris chibnall episode titles be like "The Timaeus Event PART 3: Proliferation of the [classic who monster]"

all RTD episode titles be like "grass"

#Doctor Who #New Who #RTD #Chris Chibnall #Steven Moffat

[greyhoundone]

Some things I found interesting from Rachel Talalay's live commentary of Heaven Sent at Chicago TARDIS:

- The story was originally set in a haunted house with weeping angels.

- Sometimes a single line would be shot across a mix of three locations: two actual castles and a set.

- The script was clear that the castle should have no interior lighting except for the fireplace where The Doctor dries their clothes. Rachel got some pushback from the crew on a shaft of light coming at an angle from outside, asking where the light came from. Her response was, "It doesn't have to come from anywhere. It comes from 'It looks good.'"

- Rachel worked to give more of a horror vibe to certain scenes. She did things like add a spooky wind, have Peter play the tone more for horror, and even consult with Murray Gold to keep the tone consistent. She also pushed for a “creepy garden” as opposed to the formal garden Moffat had scripted.

- Jenna wasn’t available for most of the shots where Clara is writing on the TARDIS chalkboards. They originally used a double, but the double was too obviously not Jenna. It was actually the person who did the colour grading who found other usable shots of Jenna from behind and put them in the final episode.

- Everyone was very worried about Peter hurting his hand punching the wall, especially since he had hurt his hand punching the TARDIS console in "Death in Heaven." They were going to have Peter just fake the punch and get a stunt person for close-ups, but Peter insisted on doing the punches himself because of the importance of the moment for his character. Rachel agreed on the condition that, "If you hurt yourself, you're the one who tells your wife." (He did not hurt himself again.)

- When the Doctor burns themselves and their hand dissolves away to nothing, the hand was sculpted out of Lush bath bombs. Rachel had the idea and suggested it as a cost-effective solution. So they just sculpted Peter's hand out of bath bombs and poured some water on it.

- When the Doctor breaks through the wall and the Veil collapses, the collapse was achieved by filling the Veil costume with helium balloons and then popping them.

#Doctor Who #Heaven Sent #Rachel Talalay #Chicago TARDIS #Peter Capaldi #Steven Moffat #New Who #Twelve #Twelfth Doctor #The Doctor #The Veil #Doctor Who behind the scenes #Dr. Who #Doctor Who cast #Doctor Who conventions #Jenna Coleman #Clara Oswald

[unnamedmedicalprofessional]

When the Toymaker was recapping the sort of deaths of the Moffat era companions, I realize in hindsight they must have been very careful about how they phrased what happened to Bill, because Tennant could not have said "She survived. Her life was saved by her omnipotent lesbian space oil puddle crush" with a straight face. (Just to be clear I mean that as a compliment to the lesbian puddle. I appreciate plot points that seem earnest and heartfelt in the moment but sound ridiculous when you put them into words. That's what Doctor Who is all about).

#doctor who #dw #dw spoilers #bill potts #twelfthdoctor #twelfth doctor #fourteenth doctor #david tennant #russell t davies #steven moffat #pro moffat #pro rtd #moffatera #rtd2 #rtd2 era

[vroomvroomwee]

Doctor Who started off with terrible CGI but with stunning writing and as it progressed the two switched places. The CGI might be phenomenal but the writing is a dumpster fire.

I think that's partly why everyone is so excited for the 60th special. You've got the CGI and the writing this time now that RTD is back.

#doctor who #doctorwho #doctor who 60th anniversary #60th anniversary #cgi #chibnall era #chris chibnall #rtd #rtd era #steven moffat #moffat era

[dawningday84]

I don't care how many newer versions of the Holmes brothers are made. These are mine. Time may have moved on and searches for "Sherlock" may bring newer actors, but everytime someone likes or reblogs one of my old posts, my heart does a little leap. The BBC Sherlock fandom still lives. People still care about these characters. They are still loved and we still want more ❤️

#bbc sherlock #sherlock fandom #mycroft holmes #sherlock holmes #mark gatiss #benedict cumberbatch #holmes brothers #steven moffat

[causalityparadoxes]

Kind of hysterical to me that Steven Moffat, famously the most sexist of the nuwho showrunners, is also the only one to get the Doctor's transgenderism right.

Both Chibnall and RTD seem(ed) so stuck on regeneration being a binary switch. That while their body can change they are always inline with it, and in that way cisgender.

But god for all his faults Moffat did write the Doctor and Missy with a certain disconnect from humanity and human gender.

Like yes Missy played into being a woman but it was always a performance, SHE knew she was above it but she loved the way she could use it to fuck with humans.

Then with 12 you have Capaldi's whole performance and that lovely moment with Bill. Like ofc it was less explicit than we just got with RTD, but for being stories that are what nearly a decade old now? It was fucking AMAZING and what we did get was so good and so on point with the doctor's nonbinary identity.

Obviously he doesn't come close to whatever the Eighth doctor writers were on in the edas. But in terms of modern who? Damn I miss 'we are so far above your petty human obsession with gender'. I want that kind of nonbinary-ism back please. please...

#doctor who #dw spoilers #the star beast #dw #Steven Moffat #rambles

[brekkerholmes]

sometimes a marriage is you, your husband and your emotional support time-travelling alien

(i'm on episode 9 season 5, so no spoilers pls!)

#the doctor #doctor who #matt smith #amy pond #rory pond #amy's choice #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #david tennant #steven moffat #russell t davies #tenrose #superwholock #karen gillan #catherine tate #donna noble #doctor donna #billie piper #rose tyler #dream lord #fourteenth doctor #14th doctor #10th doctor #11th doctor

[raineydaywrites]

Personally I like a number of things from Moffat’s storytelling style, but one of my favorite things about his run of Doctor Who is the fact that, all other criticisms of him aside, he took over the show after RTD (someone he seems to like and get along with) wiped Donna’s memory, spent years intermittently reminding the audience “hey wiping her memory like that was fucked up wasn’t it”, and now that RTD is show runner again, he’s immediately bringing her back to presumably fix that.

Vagueposting your friends to update their hurt/no comfort fanfic works!

#doctor who #rtd #steven moffat #donna noble #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor

[quasi-normalcy]

I love the disconnect whereby, anywhere else on the Internet, it's pretty much universally acknowledged that Steven Moffat is, whatever other vices he might have, pretty damn good at writing episodes of Doctor Who, and when people compile the list of best Doctor Who stories, at least 50% of them are consistently stories that were personally written by Moffat; but on Tumblr, you can't even say his name without spinning three times, spitting over your shoulder, and saying a profanity.

Anyways, I'm excited that Steven Moffat is coming back to write Doctor Who!

#steven moffat #doctor who #ncuti gatwa #fifteenth doctor

[thepalerimitation]

Most Controversial Doctor Who Opinions I have:

Eleven was wild as FUCK for marrying River and then acting like they had an awesome relationship. It would’ve been better to have more Twelve River than whatever that was.

If Clara did half the shit Rose did, y’all would be tearing your hair out. Clara was the most complex character and you fell for Moffats silly little trap of thinking she was selfish. THATS THE WHOLE POINT.

Ten was a bigger asshole than Nine and the only reason people think differently is because Nine owned it and Ten acted like it never happened and you believed him.

The whole River being the daughter of Amy was so unbelievably stupid to me. Boooooooo make her an enigma. Make her mysterious and unknowable. We don’t need to know…woman of mystery.

Clara was the love of Twelve’s life but I am unbelievably glad that she and Bill never met because then Twelve would have to explain how one mid twenties woman was like his granddaughter and the other was like his cougar girlfriend.

I am a hater of the “bring along the boyfriend trope” in Doctor Who. Only two situations where this worked was Rory because Rory was iconic and Danny Pink watching the Doctor openly flirt with Clara. (That last one only works because he immediately died).

If we’re going to do so much slapping, Moffat, let’s have some stabbing too. Cmon, stabbing.

#doctor who #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #twelveclara #clara oswald #twelve #david tennant #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #river song #rose tyler #amy pond #steven moffat

[khruschevshoe]

How Behind-the Scenes Issues Affected the Writing of Doctor Who (Both Good and Bad)

Doctor Who is such a fascinating show to look at from a Watsonian v. Doylist perspective. Like, entirely just from an episode writing point of view:

Twice Upon A Time feels so slow and meandering and even boring in places because Chris Chibnall didn't want to start his run as showrunner and Steven Moffat didn't want the show to lose the coveted Christmas timeslot (ironic, I know) so he bumped the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration from the end of The Doctor Falls (where it makes sense) to the end of the Christmas special

Boom Town (my beloved) only exists because originally there was going to be an episode in its spot explaining that Rose had been molded to be the Doctor's perfect companion (by the Doctor, gross) and the writer didn't have the time to commit to the show

The ending of Last Christmas feels like one inside-a-dream too many because originally Jenna Coleman was questioning whether she was going to leave the show or not and the ending was rewritten after the first readthrough when she decided she wanted to stay for another season

The first five episodes of Season 7 feel like each one takes place in a different genre because that's literally how Steven Moffat pitched it to the writers; for example, A Town Called Mercy was literally pitched as "Doctor Who does a Western"

Not so much a weird one but one I find cool: Eleven's first words and Thirteen's first words were literally written by Moffat and Chibnall respectively, as they were brought in to write the first words of the first Doctors of their runs so as to make it cohesive

The reason why Fourteen isn't wearing Thirteen's clothes when he regenerates is because Jodie Whittaker is much shorter than David Tennant and Russell T. Davies didn't want it to look like he was making fun of the genderfluidity of the Doctor (still think he made the wrong decision, but eh)

Wilfred Mott isn't in the Runaway Bride and Donna's father isn't in Partners in Crime because the actor who played Donna's father, Howard Attfield, died after filming several scenes for Partners In Crime, leading to the character of "Stan Mott" from Voyage of the Damned being written into Partners In Crime as Donna's grandfather

Astrid Peth doesn't die in the original drafts of Voyage of the Damned, but Russell T. Davies wrote what is generally considered one of the most emotional deaths in Doctor Who just because he wanted Kylie Minogue to be able to focus on her music career

Originally Oxygen was written as a prequel to Mummy on the Orient Express, where a corporate representative appeared on a monitor. Said representative was fired for his fumbling of the station and would later live on as the company computer, Gus

During Season 11, Chris Chibnall had to do some major rewrites for many of the one-off episodes, therefore The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos ended up being a first draft that made it to screen. He later admitted it was his least favorite episode of the series

And this is only a fraction of what I found in terms of major behind-the-scenes writing reasons. Though I am still totally willing to critique the product that made it to our screens, finding out the reasons behind some of the more badly written episodes of the show really made me feel sympathy for every showrunner of the show as well as appreciate a lot of the good episodes that ended up here despite the short production schedule/unexpected problems (once again, Boom Town my beloved AND everyone's favorite companion Wilfred Mott only exist because of unforseen problems). Absolutely bonkers, isn't it?

#russell t davies #steven moffat #chris chibnall #wilfred mott #astrid peth #the battle of ranskoor av kolos #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #jenna coleman #clara oswald #last christmas #twice upon a time #boom town #writing #behind the scenes #eleventh doctor #oxygen #mummy on the orient express #a town called mercy #partners in crime #fourteenth doctor #yes i did my research for this one #doctor who

[oswincoleman]

Jenna Coleman with Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan at an event yesterday!

#jenna coleman #jenna louise coleman #doctor who #steven moffat #karen gillan #clara oswald #amy pond

[thefiresofpompeii]

the main mistake that people who dislike s8 and put it low in their series rankings make is the belief that, like any other series (apart from s9), it’s a collection of standalone stories tied together by some vague throughline i.e. missy’s ‘heaven’. “oh, this episode’s mid, that episode’s bad” meanwhile it’s not about individual episodes at all. i firmly believe that it should be viewed as a singular long serial.

so grateful that i was extremely late to the party and binged it all in a week instead of watching every episode as they were airing, because sometimes the plots barely matter at all. do you remember what the skovox blitzer actually looks like or what it wanted with coal hill in the first place? hardly. i had to google its name. but what you do remember from the caretaker is twelve acting like an antagonistic prick towards danny, and that’s what matters. almost every villainous entity is some kind of soldier, the contempt twelve shows to everybody but clara becomes the source of their toxicity… in the forest of the night is pretty obviously rubbish scifi, but it demonstrates danny’s fundamental incompatibility with clara, as well as the scene in which clara is ready to sacrifice herself and her students for the doctor’s sake, foreshadowing their reckless, almost suicidal codependency.

point is, but it really does work best as a tightly woven tapestry. sure, some episodes succeed individually, but most of the individual plots are mildly exciting only in a ‘this is fun to watch for kids’ way… UNLESS you approach them from the overarching perspective. i.e. mummy on the orient express has wonderful style, a thrilling mystery, creative concepts and interesting side characters, but its story appeal hinges on the twelveclara failed breakup. listen is frightening enough, but its entire story appeal hinges on just how much clara affects the doctor’s values past and present, and whether or not she has a future with danny (she doesn’t).

what i’m saying is, the narrative in s8 is a non-negotiable package deal. buy one, get them all. and it has no skips. i hate the idiotic pro-life message in kill the moon as much as the next sensible person, but what the episode does well is really hammer home how much of a sanctimonious asshole twelve initially is, which is crucial to his future character evolution.

tldr; the correct way to watch series 8 is all in one go. series 8 is great. more love for series 8

#oops! it’s another pointless doctor who rant nobody will read. just kidding please read it #i vow to speak the truth and nothing but the truth #oh boy the tags. too many tags #dw #doctor who #doctor who meta #doctor who analysis #doctor who series 8 #peter capaldi #twelve #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #jenna coleman #danny pink #the caretaker #in the forest of the night #mummy on the orient express #kill the moon #flatline #doctor who s8 #steven moffat #pro moffat #jamie catches up #jamie.txt