Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion
One of the major gripes I have with Moffat's writing of Doctor Who (approx. 2010–2017) is that the Doctor is portrayed as being the most important person in the universe.
The speech from "The Pandorica Opens" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa74e8oAvIM ) is the doctor talking about how special he is.
Then there's the question ( https://youtu.be/lGDC0n89nhA?t=1m39s ). "The oldest question in the universe, and the one that must never be answered".... is "Doctor Who?"
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Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion
@lizardsquid That's one of the reasons I stopped watching after Eleven. I grew bored of the formula, all the unnecessary season-long plot lines.
Moffat doesn't write characters - he writes a god in human skin and the entire universe are just dominos around him.
Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion
@lizardsquid I strongly agree with you. I abandoned the show after Moffat took over. I tried really hard to stay interested, but there came a point in time when the writing was bland and the Doctor wasn't fun anymore - pseudo deities are boring.
Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion
@lizardsquid tbh? And it’s why I got bored of Sherlock too.
To be blunt Moffat kinda gets a bit...up his own arse with the way he writes characters.
I know the term Mary Sue...isn’t a great one, but it does encapsulate how I feel he writes the Doctor—everything bends to make him look good and powerful and it’s really. Really. Boring.
Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion
@Doggo Mary Sue is exactly it – Moffat's Doctor is never in genuine peril, and he's always good, and he's better and more moral than everyone around, and he's a badass, and he can do things that are basically just arbitrarily magical
Doctor Who, Moffat, opinion
And then there's the interstellar organisation dedicated to killing The Doctor.
Over and over again, Moffat makes the Doctor this mythical figure, that can never be defeated. And it takes all the fun and adventure out of it – I don't want an ultra-important person, I want to see a Doctor who goes on adventures, who follows where whimsy takes them, and who ends up saving people in distress.
But Moffat treats The Doctor as though they're a God.