Sea Devils And Die: GeroniMoffat's Doctor Who In The 2010s

The other thing to remember is that Rusty rewrote or got people to revise scripts to fit his view of how the series should be and presumably Moffatt will do the same. So a Chibnall script for Moffatt could end up quite different to a Chibnall script for Davies.

Looking forward to the Gatiss one, given that Rusty apparently trashed his original script for The Unquiet Dead and made him take out a lot of the darker bits.

there's still strong anti-donna sentiment out there? i knew there was circa "Runaway Bride" but i thought people had gotten over it during S4. anyway i loved her and apparently i've self-selected places on the internet to go where everyone else loves her too.

does this also mean that moffat written script w/o rusty looking over his shoulder could be different from the moffat we've grown to expect?

Rusty said he didn't change Moffatt's scripts at all, so maybe not.

half-serious point but presumably now there will be fewer gay references? the occasional background character notwithstanding. i just can't imagine anyone consciously inserting gayness into proceedings with half as much vigour as Rusty.

"inserting", "vigour"

ITS LIKE I'M HIM

If only Frankie Howerd had ever been offered the Doctor Who gig.

Worth bearing in mind Moffatt wrote the series' first gay ref in The Empty Child and also pretty much outed the Master in that mini Davison ep. So you never know… Plus Moffatt loves to troll the stuffier fans so I wouldn't put it past him to try and outdo Rusty for the lulz.

i think Moffat just writes better and more subtle innuendos generally tbh

Chibnall ;_;

I know :(

At least it isn't Helen Raynor. That's the only way it could be worse.

Example of said trolling - the series 5 trailer. He punches someone! He kisses a girl! He fires a gun! SM must have known how those three things would piss off a certain type.

yes, it was all to empthasise how this Doctor was different (apart from the kissing girls thing).

I had to look up the name of the dude who wrote "Fear Her", he'd be worse.

i think Moffat just writes better and more subtle innuendos generally tbh

― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:18 PM (1 minute ago)

Fair point.

From the clip it looks like a girl kisses him and he's all like omg a gurl. xps

I had to look up the name of the dude who wrote "Fear Her", he'd be worse.

― Shart Habit to Break (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 7, 2010 1:21 PM (11 seconds ago)

Matthew Graham, creator and writer of Life On Mars. Lousy episode, not helped by how he totally misjudged the tone of the show (and like Moffatt, Chibnall and Greenhorn had a "no rewrites by RTD" clause in his contract). Also, poor casting and Euros Lyn's "LETS DUTCH TILT EVERY SHOT" style made a 50p episode look even cheaper :(

It was like Brookside as filmed by the putz who did Battlefield Earth :(

i did like the big scribbly ball in Fear Her, but so much potential missed in that ep

The TARDIS gag at the beginning was cute too.

Still want them to bring Ben Aaronovitch back into the fold. Will never happen, though ;(

Bit of a pity the Gaiman rumours didn't come to pass.

I'd love someone to get Alan Moore to write one, but I imagine that'd be nigh-on impossible.

I reckon the Gaiman script will turn up for S6. They always overcommission and Gaimans got form for being late with TV scripts, or so I've heard.

Didn't AM nearly write for McCoy? Something like that anyway.

My guess is that the gun Matt Smith fires is a starter pistol rather than an actual gun.

I just watched Blink again and the Doctor says the Weeping Angels were "quite nice where they came from".

yeah starter pistol is pretty obvious but it still had loads of idjuts protesting

He's not pulling a "I am shooting a starting pistol" face there.

my God, Ben Aaronovitch would be fucking fantastic

big cheers for seeing Gatiss and Roberts, two of the more underrated authors from the Virgin book era

I think he's doing the live action Blake's 7 for Sky at the moment, though.

O_O

okay gotta see that, that's like a completely perfect pairing of sensibilities right there

Look - it's a ginger Matt Smith:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/07/ginger-fringe-doctor-who

wow, ginger Matt Smith looks like an anemic serial killer

too la roux

but if the Master could die his hair i don't see why the Doctor can't

The Doctor will never dye.

big cheers for seeing Gatiss and Roberts, two of the more underrated authors from the Virgin book era

The Idiot's Lantern was pretty terrible, though.

MILD SPOILER: isn't Gatiss writing the Churchill/Daleks one?

i do still want Moffat to write a Dalek story at some point. would be happy for Julian Bleach as Davros to return because he was so good last time but trying to make an interesting compelling story with them probably the biggest challenge. with The Master presumably ruled out for a while, i'd be surprised if the finale wasn't based around Davros. but would be brave and probably better to base the final NOT around classic enemies for the first time. don't really care about the Cybermen now.

xp: Oh yeah, that one. I try to pretend that episode doesn't exist (in fact, I still haven't seen several S2 episodes because "The Idiot Lantern" has made me so gunshy).

The good S2 eps are very good (the ending story is fantastic, plus "The Girl in the Fireplace" and Moffat's Doctorless episode) but it also easily has the worst nu-Who episodes in it; IMO nothing in seasons 1, 3 or 4 comes anywhere near the awfulness of "The Idiot Lantern".

yeah i agree, altho The Doctor's Daughter comes very close

i cut it some slack for actually bothering to be set on an alien planet

IMO nothing in seasons 1, 3 or 4 comes anywhere near the awfulness of "The Idiot Lantern".

The Idiot's Lantern and Fear Her are my two least favorite episodes, but the Daleks in Manhattan episodes run a close third.

The Daleks In Manhattan one isn't that bad as a whole but wow Tellulah is terrible in isolation.

Moffat's Doctorless episode

I assume you're referring to Love & Monsters, which was written by RTD.

oops

That seems to be one that most people online hate, but I enjoy it.

That was the episode that convinced me to actually watch season 2; I'd missed a bunch of episodes and came in on "The Idiot Lantern" which, well... I had decided I was done with the show until they got rid of Tennant basically, up until I wandered across "Love and Monsters" and "The Girl in the Fireplace".

I like Love and Monsters too.

Actual good RTD episodes:
The End of the World
L&M
Midnight
Turn Left

Smith & Jones and Gridlock are alright.

Oh, and all the series finales have a fair bit to enjoy, but they get progressively worse.

"Turn Left" cheats a little bit by relying so heavily on continuity set up in other stories but the execution is so great that it doesn't matter.

"Midnight" is the one where they're trapped on the bus, right? That was fucking excellent.

Yeah, that's the one. Best episode of S4.