#anti moffat

[box-dwelling]

Shit that I don't think is RTD being passive aggressive about the other show runners because they're his colleagues and he seems like a nice dude but deserved to be passive aggressive jabs because he is not a hack fraud from The Giggle.

The only thing from chibanls era being brought up by the toymaker being the emotional fall out of the flux, a thing chibnal had no interest in exploring despite clearly being the most interesting thing in his run

Spice up your life, being a reference to the Rasputin number which is the only other good thing chibnal ever did but that RTD still beat his ass with

Having 90% of the supporting cast be women, all written distinctively and empathetically and non of whom showed any interest in the doctor a thing moffat could never do

This is pre his era but actually writing a proper arc and personality for Mel.

Honestly the entire you are running from your trauma arc seems like a chibnal slight because he really did not care to write that shit at all

Bigenerataion. Feels like he just decided the timeless child fucks with the lore enough he can have Ncuti break it in his underwear with a comically oversized hammer. Which is deeply correct of him.

The Clara was killed by a bird line

Please tell me if I missed anything

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #dw #dw spoilers #rtd2 #rtd #ncuti gatwa #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #the giggle #whoniverse #anti chibnall #anti moffat

[crancisfrozier]

Rewatching RTD era Doctor Who and thinking about how Journey’s End is more of a celebration of the history and spirit of Doctor Who than the 50th anniversary ever was

#anti moffat #it’s the way the emphasis is on the journey of the doctor and the people he meets and the family he surrounds himself with #the ordinary people who become extraordinary because of him #while everything about Moffat DW is meant to highlight how super duper Uber special the doctor is #all the heart and gentleness lobotomized to make it c o o l and s e x y

[lesbostomping]

okay so after the whole james somerton situation i ended up watching a few more videos from hbomberguy, including his sherlock one and... i'm sorry but he fuckin ate?? like i've seen the thumbnail pop up several times over the years but always assumed it was just some right wing asshole dunking on the latest thing that's popular with women. it is most definitely not. i recommend it for all y'all ex-tjlcers' healing journeys

#what do i tag this #hbomberguy #james somerton #anti mofftiss #tjlc #anti moffat #sherlock season 4

[rosettyller]

one thing I love about the recent specials is the character of shaun Temple, and in turn what this reflects about Donna's characterisation, and showing how RTD understands her (she is his character) so much better than Moffat (who is a sexist, classist wanker, so no surprise).

The two vastly differing understandings of Donna are reflected through Donna's Happy Ending Husbands, Shaun and the one from silence in the library I will refer to as Bob, because I can't even remember if he has a name.

(disclaimer that i haven't watched silence in the library for a couple of years)

We don't see much of either of them, but it's clear Shaun is a good guy. He loves and supports Donna (and Rose!). He values her opinion.

Now, Bob. No hate on Bob, I'm sure he's a great guy too. Lots of hate on Moffat, though. He portrays Donna's ideal life as married to a guy who can't talk, so she can talk over him, never shut up, because she's always talking, having a go at someone, and now she's happy with a husband and kids who can't tell her to shut up.

This is just such a massive misunderstanding of Donna, and it annoys me so much.

There's this quote from series 4, along the lines of Donna "shouting at the world because no one's listen", which I think summarises it quite nicely. She's a temp, and no one gets her coffee. Lance wasn't particularly nice to her. For the first 30-odd years of her life, her mother was constantly nagging her, chipping away at her self esteem. The whole idea of Donna thinking she's no one is so prevelant in both the Runaway Bride and s4.

She shouts at the world because otherwise it doesn't listen to her at all, because she has to fight to be appreciated and valued, and even then, pre-s4, she still isn't listened to.

And Shaun listens to her and actually values her and what she has to say, instead of being unable to stop her talking constantly, enforcing her thoughts on everyone and not at all considering of what other people might want to say.

#i did not say this good but hopefully you get my point #doctor who #dw60 #the giggle #donna noble #shaun temple #anti moffat

[khruschevshoe]

There's something about how the costuming of Amy Pond (always in miniskirts/heeled boots even when the circumstances actively call against it, never getting to wear period wear except for once in Vampires of Venice for a one-scene disguise before immediately moving into a nightgown and once in a cutaway honeymoon monstage) is directly linked to the more sexist aspects of her storyline writing and that tie is most likely the interviews with Steven Moffatt where he admits to wanting to make Doctor Who "sexier." In this essay I will-

#doctor who #amy pond #eleventh doctor #costuming #anti moffat #costuming so often reflects the priorities of the showrunner #it's the sexism for me mate #wow do those interviews age poorly

[arialebenthal]

this has been sitting in my drafts for 2 years because i know i'm gonna get hate mail about it. oh well. this is for you, RTD truthers

#doctor who #doctor who rtd era #rtd era #dw rtd era #rtd era dw #anti moffat #dw #my post #listen i don't hate these characters i think they had the potential to be amazing. but moffat fucked them up beyond repair #also there's a grammar mistake but i didn't notice til just now and i'm too lazy to edit it 👍🏻 #should say 'who* does not need romance or....' etc #not 'that' #as the sentence is referring to a person

[3lostyears]

it’s so telling that i haven’t felt this angry since the 50th special lol. it’s wild to me that chibnall is the showrunner that gets accused of being self important the most when power of the doctor is the closest modern who has gotten to a good anniversary special. both moffat and rtd are clearly only interested in their own legacies and entwining them with the existing canon (like clara going into the doctor’s timestream) while the much hated timeless child was actually building on things that were in the second and seventh doctor’s eras. people described power of the doctor as “celebrating every era except chibnall’s own” like people wouldn’t have torn him to shreds for doing that, but i was so touched by the appearance of former companions and doctors even though i never personally watched them. the tales of the TARDIS was basically rehashing that exact idea too, though far less touchingly. the only reason i wish the power of the doctor had celebrated chibnall’s era more is that clearly no one else is going to.

#ramble #delete later #i had more and better thoughts but i’m just upset right now #i love rtd’s first era but now both moffat AND rtd have undercut that #rtd is only interested in himself but not in a way that respects what he did #just rehashes it and shows he’s learned NOTHING #learned nothing about how he failed martha #or even why 10 and his relationship with rose worked in the first place #anti rtd #anti moffat #doctor who

[evviejo]

it cracks me up how in The Post About No Women Writers in Doctor Who Between 2008-2015 people try to defend rtd and moffat and bash on chibnall by saying "at least rtd and moffat had queer writers, so there was diversity" and by "queer writers" they mean rtd himself (how generous of him to give himself the opportunity!) and mark gatiss (a.k.a. close collaborator of notoriously misogynistic moffat).

and then they completely leave out the fact that the first time there was a person of colour with a writing credit was in chibnall era (malorie blackman co-writing rosa) and that there indeed was a queer writer involved (ella road co-writing legend of the sea devils). and sure, they both collaborated on those with chibnall, but he still had a black woman involved to write about racism and a queer woman to write a sapphic relationship focused episode.

and chibnall managed to do much better in 31 episodes than either rtd or moffat did in 60 and 84 episodes respectively. was this perfect and no further work is required? sure not. but he at least tried instead of throwing a hissy fit over how "young writers are so angry and their scripts are sooo bad". he actually got them on board, collaborated with them, and gave them a platform. this is the way forward.

#dw stuff #anti rtd #anti moffat #pro chibnall #negativity

[dreamcaught]

Rewatching Moffat really makes me realize how often he relies on repetition as part of suspense:

"Are you my mummy?" "Don't blink. Don't even blink." "Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved." "Prisoner Zero has escaped." "Silence will fall." ...etc.

I'm sure this isn't a new observation in the fanbase, but goodness does it become annoying when watching the episodes back-to-back.

Another thing Moffat seems to do is just have the Doctor know shit? Like, why does he assume Prisoner Zero (The Eleventh Hour) is going to kill Amy if she looks at him? How does he know for sure that it's a hyper-dimensional multiform based solely on that it uses a perception filter on the door? I'm literally trying to find the answers to these questions in the script.

All throughout RTD era Who, the Doctor has consistently had to learn and discover what the Big Bad of the episode is - and will almost always try to understand it before making assumptions. Even in Human Nature/Family of Blood, where you could argue that the Family is a very dangerous enemy, the Doctor gives them a chance to live out their lifespan harmlessly. But... just cause Prisoner Zero is... a prisoner, I guess?, the Doctor assumes it's going to kill Amelia? I don't get this.

Also what the fuck is with this "they stopped my aging" bit they've done to Liz 10 in The Beast Below? So they can just do that, then, without the Doctor even blinking at the implications? Moffat's got some weird thing about needing like multiple twists even though they really, really muck up with established moral questions (living forever is bad, yo).

Ugh, I love some of these lines, and Matt Smith is fucking gorgeous as the Doctor, but Moffat, you are still a misogynistic, egotistical git.

#anti moffat #doctor who #angry ramblings

[variousqueerthings]

genuinely may have to make a tag for river song, because I know I'm a minority in the way I feel about her writing and place in the story, and I really feel so very negatively about the character as functioning to be The Most Special Of The Show and how that diminishes every other character (noticeably not created by moffat).

even the episode order of her first appearance -- library right after the doctor's daughter, yes it feels like the latest in a long list of people the doctor sees die and that's how ten's narrative tends to go, but it's only truly affecting because she is going to be more special than any of the others the doctor has witnessed the deaths of, honest, and you can tell because of the screwdriver and because she "knows the doctor's true name" which is hinted at as being only for the most important person in the doctor's life, and the most important person is not just romantic, it's the person the doctor marries Spoilers Wait And See It's All So Romantic Honest

and they're going to get married and it will be sad, promise, so feel sad now, because this is deeper -- deeper than rose, deeper than martha, deeper than donna, deeper than jack, deeper than jenny, deeper than the master, deeper than any classic companion or nu!who companion... and it's deeper because it's been stated to be deeper for some reason or other, which is the same as writing a narrative I guess

#anti river song #anti moffat #i wonder how this will feel once i get to eleven when the bulk of river song narrative happens #doctor who #dw #the most annoying thing is that i really want to like her -- i think alex kingston is funny and good at acting #genuinely river song absent of the doctor is a much more compelling character to me RIP #the measurement

[please-stay-out-of-my-dreams]

Ever notice how Steven Moffat only ever writes the same three characters over and over again? Like, all his characters are either 1) genius guy who delivers speeches (and may or may not be a self-insert), 2) slightly pathetic guy who is mocked by Genius Guy and has jokes made at his expense, or 3) sassy girl who's hot and knows it.

Obviously actors give varied performances so it's not always clear how similarly most Moffat characters are written, but once you see it, you can't un-see it.

#steven moffat #anti moffat #doctor who #dracula 2020 #my posts

[mwagneto]

why is it that literally Every Single Woman moffat writes as a love interest for the doctor is someone he meets when they're little girls and he's a grown ass man and they all grow up idolising him. and he also has a whole episode where a grown woman befriends and spends a day with a child every day for her but once a year for him and then she gets with him like a few days after meeting him as like an 8 then 9 then 10 etc etc year old. i need this man to die

#like this happens. at least four times. the only exception is missy which is a whole different beast #when i make the video essay abt moffat what then #watching his era like crawling through broken glass fr please just stop writing women please im begging you #and at least i like 11 and amy rory river. even if the era sucks at least my little guys are there #but oh my god . ohhh my god im already dreading . what's next. #i think im gonna just like. start every episode and then skip when i get annoyed coz lord 💀 #doctor who #anti moffat #anti steven moffat #dw lb

[forestwaterfalls]

anyway i’ve only watched up to the end of the second serial of classic who but i can honestly say m*ff*t completely fucked over hartnell/one in twice upon a time. he really just used one as an excuse to be as racist / misogynistic / homophobic as he was allowed to be. while actual one wasn’t even like that in ‘63. once again i didn’t need another reason to hate m*ff*t yet here we are.

#first doctor #anti moffat #doctor who #classic who #m rambles

[dumbfilmschoolkid]

rose stans what is our official stance on reinette’s “one may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel” quote

#rose tyler #Doctor Who #because it has great potential for gifsets fanfics etc but I’ve never seen any #do we pretend it doesn’t exist like the rest if this episode? #I mean moff*t probably patted himself on the back so hard writing this line #to be polite #anti moffat #anti tgitf #tenrose #ninerose

[khruschevshoe]

Just rewatched The Girl In the Fireplace for the first time in about nine years and Steven Moffat really read the Time Traveller's Wife one time and decided that every single woman companion he was going to write on the show (with the exception of Bill, and since she's a lesbian, she literally couldn't fall for the Doctor) was going to meet the Doctor as a child and then fall in love with him later on, didn't he? Reinette snogged him when she met him as an adult. Amy snogged him the day before she was getting married. River had, well, every single thing about her arc, birth to death. Even Clara, after being introduced as just friends, is revealed to have met the Doctor as a teenager and then is revealed to fancy him in the regeneration episode. Like, it's an absolutely bizarre and a little bit uncomfortable recurring plot point that these women met a man briefly as a child, imprinted on him, and fell in love/had a sexual interest in him/were obsessed with him as an adult, making large portions of their lives from childhood revolve around this man. Like...a bit of a yikes.

#doctor who #anti moffat #at least moffat critical #because yikes #river song #clara oswin oswald #clara oswald #amy pond #eleventh doctor #tenth doctor #the girl in the fireplace #criticism #meta

[mulderscully]

60th vs 50th mood

#dw #anti moffat