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Posts tagged with steven moffat is a hack.
Well that’s because calling his stories complex is quite frankly letting him off too easily - there’s a difference between complex and deliberately inscrutable
See Steven Moffat subscribes to a school of writing previously made famous by JJ Abrams and the rest of the dinguses who wrote Lost in that he understands that being deliberately obtuse about your plot is a cheap and effective way to make people watch your dumb show
I really hate to be that guy singing Russel T Davies’ praises right now because, as Last of the Time Lords, Journey’s End and The End of Time effectively demonstrate, good god is he by no means a perfect writer
But! But but but butt butte he understood that a good story is a good story and that good characters make you care about that good story and what Moffat does instead is beat you about the ears with the same stupid unanswerable questions in an effort to hold you hostage and show up for next week’s episode - and they’re not unanswerable due to complexity, they’re unanswerable because there’s no fucking way you’d know the answer to those questions. What are the Silence? How does River Song know The Doctor? What’s The Doctor’s real name? I don’t feel like watching Sherlock so I can include a Sherlock related question in this list I’m riffing?
There’s a point in all this, I’ll get to it right now
It’s this: if you’ve been paying attention to Steven Moffat’s style of writing you’d have known for ages leading up to this headline that he has no respect for his audience
He’s not a master of “mind-fuck”, he’s a master of “hahaha fuck you”
^ I have always maintained that even though I think Matt Smith is great, the last two seasons have been a fucking soap opera that I’m never excited to watch. The only episode’s I’ve liked have been the ones out of the major plots, like Vincent and the Doctor. When Moffat tries to carry a story line, it just feels absurd.
The image on this one reminds me that I used to refer to Steven Moffatt solely as Susan Boyle.
Also that he is stupid and can’t write for shit and altogether too impressed with himself, also.
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“Stories depend on shocking people. Stories are the moments that you didn’t see coming, that are what live in you and burn in you forever. If you are denied those, it’s vandalism.”
- Steven Moffat
I think this is why I find it hard to get onboard with Moffat’s vision of Who: he thinks that stories are that bit at the end, where the writer points at you and goes ‘HAAA!! You thought you knew what was happening, didn’t you?’
And stories are so, so much more than that.
Which is funny, because I want Moffat to legit slip on a banana skin* and regenerate into a good writer, not a ‘look into my eyes don’t look around the eyes don’t question anything that just happened for more than half a second or the entire narrative will fall down around you’ fairground magician. Just sayin’. * - in his last column for Doctor Who Magazine, RTD fell down the stairs and regenerated into Moffat. His first line was ‘Hoots mon! Och aye the noo!’ And that is why RTD is the best.Troll!Doctor painting strikes again! Boy, he sure gets around.
NGL, I want Moffat to legit slip that painting in to the background in Sherlock now. He would as well. *crosses fingers*
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“mid-series finale” hahaha
SPOILERZ
Right, Amy’s child isn’t actually going to turn out to be fathered by the Doctor, is it? No, that would be silly. They just like dropping misleading hints at us.
It’s been revealed that Amy’s daughter is called Melody. Melody Pond. Like River Song, yeah? It might turn out that the baby really is River, like everyone’s been theorizing for ages. Maybe that’s the reason why the Doctor will be pissed. They haven’t taken his daughter, they’ve taken his wife/lady friend.
If River is Amy’s child THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Stupidest. Shit. Ever.
Melody.
What?
When the TARDIS is scanning Amy to see if she’s pregnant (INITIATING PREGNANCY TEST VROOP VROOP!!) and it’s like YES but NO but YES but NO? That’s like me and this show: love but HATE but love but HATE.
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The Doctor refered to Rory as Rory Pond. Did he take Amy’s surname when they married? That’s cool.
Not officially, it’s been a running joke since series five.
Because a man taking his wife’s name is LULZ, apparently.
Oh, Moffat.
D:
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There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.
The world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.
”Steven Moffat, in The Scotsman
So, yeah, this guy showruns one of the most popular television shows in our country, predominantly aimed at children.
DEFINITELY DOOMED.
The Legs, The Nose, Mrs Robinson
Guys, can we stop making GIFs of this and reblogging it as if it isn’t one of the most problematic things Steven ‘take THAT, feminism!’ Moffat has ever written?
Referring to Amy by one of her body parts - the way she has been defined, since day one, by disparate bits of her body - is just. Not. Cool. But sums up a lot of the hugely problematic things about her - for want of a better word - character.
Also, the Doctor is 900 and River is, what, 45? Mrs Robinson does not work as a reference.
And Arthur Darvill’s nose, not really a thing.
So. Yeah. FUCK OFF.
Anyway. Carry on.
