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xerinmichellexSo, I'm a little nervous about the Doctor Who premiere tonight. I've aired out my frustrations over and over and over and over (<--SPOILER POST!) about the past couple of seasons. (Season 5--if I don't think about it too hard--was not the complete fluster-cuck as Season 6 and 7, Part I.) Bad as it gets, I don't think I'll ever stop watching Doctor Who. Then again, owing to my "series loyalties", I thought I'd never drop Glee or The Vampire Diaries and those shows are off my TV viewing schedule. We'll have to see how this back-half plays out.
As I've been busy plotting (and re-plotting) I figured out my biggest issue with this "Moffat Era": I don't care about the characters so the writing/plots come off cold and detached. I think back to the Russel T. Davis days* and I remembered how much I loved Rose, Martha, Donna, and their families because they were so normal. They were ordinary people who did amazing things that made them extraordinary. If we look at the last three main characters (excluding the Doctor) they were overly special. River's part timelord, Rory's lived over 2000 years, and Amy has her, erm, mind...memory...thing? something. I think because Moffat made them too special and epic, I never connected to them like I did to a nineteen-year-old shop girl, medical student, and wayward red-head. Moffat seems to be big on ideas and trying so, so hard to be clever and smart, that his characters suffer and he just doesn't seem to come off as creative with them as he has with the Weeping Angels or the cracks in time. And, as much I like what I've seen of the new companion, Moffat has already set her up to be SUPER-SPECIAL!!!, and I don't know if I can deal with another Amy.
I just want the heart and soul of the show that I fell in love with back. I don't expect--given his track record--that I'm going to get that with Moffat.
*RTD had his own problems, but the man knew how to write believable and loveable characters.
ETA: Looking this over, it seems like a rambling mess. (This is what I get from shifting my brain from plotting--where my thoughts are jumbled and fragmented--to writing eloquently.) So, to simplify:
I feel like Moffat doesn't have a good grasp on human/human emotions. He comes up with a lot of good, creative ideas; but applying these ideas to the human condition is not his strong suit. When Melody/River is taken from Amy and Rory, there is no anger, no sadness, no worry from the parents whose newborn infant was ripped from their hands to be used as a weapon against their best friend. The little cubes from "The Power of Three" could've been a great opportunity to talk about humankind's obsession with obtaining/collecting things just to have them. Instead, they're merely a plot device. "The God Complex" was this great examination on how fear and bravery are intermingled. Of course, this episode was not penned by Moffat. This is why Moffat's stories read cold to me.
As I've been busy plotting (and re-plotting) I figured out my biggest issue with this "Moffat Era": I don't care about the characters so the writing/plots come off cold and detached. I think back to the Russel T. Davis days* and I remembered how much I loved Rose, Martha, Donna, and their families because they were so normal. They were ordinary people who did amazing things that made them extraordinary. If we look at the last three main characters (excluding the Doctor) they were overly special. River's part timelord, Rory's lived over 2000 years, and Amy has her, erm, mind...memory...thing? something. I think because Moffat made them too special and epic, I never connected to them like I did to a nineteen-year-old shop girl, medical student, and wayward red-head. Moffat seems to be big on ideas and trying so, so hard to be clever and smart, that his characters suffer and he just doesn't seem to come off as creative with them as he has with the Weeping Angels or the cracks in time. And, as much I like what I've seen of the new companion, Moffat has already set her up to be SUPER-SPECIAL!!!, and I don't know if I can deal with another Amy.
I just want the heart and soul of the show that I fell in love with back. I don't expect--given his track record--that I'm going to get that with Moffat.
*RTD had his own problems, but the man knew how to write believable and loveable characters.
ETA: Looking this over, it seems like a rambling mess. (This is what I get from shifting my brain from plotting--where my thoughts are jumbled and fragmented--to writing eloquently.) So, to simplify:
I feel like Moffat doesn't have a good grasp on human/human emotions. He comes up with a lot of good, creative ideas; but applying these ideas to the human condition is not his strong suit. When Melody/River is taken from Amy and Rory, there is no anger, no sadness, no worry from the parents whose newborn infant was ripped from their hands to be used as a weapon against their best friend. The little cubes from "The Power of Three" could've been a great opportunity to talk about humankind's obsession with obtaining/collecting things just to have them. Instead, they're merely a plot device. "The God Complex" was this great examination on how fear and bravery are intermingled. Of course, this episode was not penned by Moffat. This is why Moffat's stories read cold to me.
