Steven Moffat cannot write characters, more especially he cannot write women. He has given us two companions, and neither of them have any dimensions to them at all besides a few quips and their obsession with the Doctor. I remember hearing a few months that River Song was returning for the Christmas special, and being startled at just how apathetic I was to the notion. I realized how throughly Moffat had failed to develop the character and establish her relationship to the rest of the cast.
He did the same for the Paternoster gang and basically every character he has ever written for his seasons. As a head writer this is unforgivable. Doctor Who should have the best characters in the world, not these basic cut-outs. But it is still only one of his many, many offenses against the show. She has never convinced me of the emotional truth of her actions or her situation. Unlike Gillian, she manages to bring some truth to her character and has a better chemistry with both of her Doctors.
Secondly, to address the other points, I agree that there has been the attempt to give these characters good backstories and character development.
But creating well-rounded characters with good backstories is hard , and I think Moffat just gives shallow lip-service to who these people are. Ultimately think he has the worst habit of telling instead of showing. He tells us that the Doctor and River are a loving couple, but rarely does he provide evidence that these two people have a deep romantic history shared. I stand by everything I said, and I hope that my update provided a least some clarity my original points.
Just some impressions from the making of Fury Road to remind you that they used as less CGI as possible. George Miller is like the anti-Hitchcock. Despite our occupation, we are not American. We are Hawaiians. I wish we talked about Mutual Assured Destruction more in schools. William Gibson once suggested that the days on which we almost destroyed the world with nuclear weapons should be recognized as international holidays, to raise awareness of how very precarious the situation has been at times.
If you would like to observe such a holiday, October 27th should be Vasili Arkhipov Day. During the Cuban missile crisis he was first officer on Soviet submarine B off the coast of Cuba. I know I kept reading the fanfiction long after I had moved on from the show. My dad died when I was twelve, and he was the one to introduce me to Doctor Who. I loved it from the first episode of the reboot, and Rose Tyler is still one of my favourite characters of all time.
My family would watch episodes together in the living room with a projector, we would have watch parties. In the end I think it would be the first fandom I was ever a part of. I decided I wanted to be not just a writer but a screenwriter, My mom gave me a RTD biography and I found my first hero. Reading the book, I got to see a queer man who loved the same show I did, and I got to see all that went into the show that meant so much to me.
Watching the show I got to see a queer character who was the longest living character in the show, I got to see nonbinary identities mentioned in passing, I got to see women be the stars. I saw women yell back at men, and the narrative rewarded them for it. Then Moffat took over. My dad had died only a short time before and my mom wanted things to feel normal.
So my family piled into the living room and we watched the first episodes of the new series together. So I did. I rewatched a couple of episodes of the Moffat run recently, and what my child-self was seeing was a steep decline in writing quality. But they were also seeing less. Less complexity, less queerness, less kindness from the doctor, less love for the audience. In high school the Doctor was my imaginary friend.
I would walk through the hallways pretending he was holding my hand, whispering in my ear that if I just got through this there would be a bright beautiful universe waiting for me.
Then I got to see Moffat turn the Doctor into the exact person who made school hell for me. The snide sexism, the dismissal, the violence. Since it was a show I watched with my family, I informed them when I decided to stop.
They mocked me for it. I stopped watching, and they followed shortly after, though they refused to admit that I had been right.
I have rewatched Doctor Who, with my wife, who loved the RTD run as much as I did, but I was only able to get through the first two episodes of the Moffat run. Then the first episode of the third season came out, and I realized Moffat hated me.
It was the first time I realized a writer was able to despise his audience. So I learned to hate these shows back. I would laugh at the younger version of me, so cringey in how they cared. How they wanted to love media that never wanted them as a part of the audience. They never wanted me there, and I am still proud of the fact that I left. The kid who believed that shows were made of love and I could be a part of that if I tried.
The kid who needed these characters, who got through impossible things because of them. The kid who cared so deeply and openly as to put it up on a website for everyone to see. They are gone, I am cynical now, I never watched an episode of Riverdale, I stopped watching Game of Thrones at the fourth season, Harry Potter was lost to me the second J.
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