Jodie Whittaker breaks Doctor Who debut ratings record - Sensationalist Headlines

The main writer, Moffat, is getting progressively worse over time and quadruples down on his own writing style. Unfortunately, his writing style is fucking abysmal and it turns silly situations into complete messes where not even the most basic part of the plot makes sense, but none of it matters anyways because the Doctor/Sherlock/Whomever will solve it using impossible logic. And Doctor Who didn't even get it the worst. Moffat thinks he's clever so he'll just bullshit up plot twists, which creates... all of Sherlock season 4, which is borderline unwatchable, it genuinely makes no sense what so ever and requires you to exist in another reality altogether

I disagree with that, there were really great episodes during Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi's runs. They were just intersparsed in between not so good episodes. I also never really picked up on a ~~randox XDD~ vibe from the show :shrug: It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere I'm all alone, more or less, Let me fly far away from here... Moffat's writing happened. He kept doing the same thing over and over again. Not to mention that Capaldi's second season was almost entirely two-part episodes (save for like one episode) and the one that could have had emotional impact had that ripped away mostly by the finale. At least Season 10 was pretty decent, with a minimal amount of moffatisms.

wait, there were two doctors in 2005?

Eccleston only did one season, then Tennant took over for the christmas special

The showrunner was more focused on complicated plots and epic twists than characters and clarity. Casual viewers had no idea wtf was going on, hardcore viewers spent their time arguing whether it actually made any sense.

That's very true. I really liked how Tennant was eccentric but also super serious. Smith was the same and it really worked well with the Doctor as a character (happy, eccentric person but if you get on their wrong side...).

I am looking forward to seeing more of the darker side of Jodie, like her "Eccleston meets a Dalek" moment

I miss Eccleston/Tennant. Matt smith onwards was boring to me, maybe it was because a lot of the good people quit with Tennant.

Nah, all new writing staff and showrunner. Moffet is out on his ass.

Which was a total shame imo. The whole situation with Eccleston and the series is a shame. I was really hoping he'd come back for the 50th special but I knew deep down he wouldn't be coming back.

Capaldi is such a shame. I adore him as an actor but his run was the breaking point that made me throw my hands up and just walk away from Doctor Who for two or three years.

Jesus fucking christ this is extremely accurate that if you told me Moffat wrote that post, I'd believe you.

Despite being a lauded writer during the Ecchelston/Tennant seasons, Moffat's tenure as showrunner brought out a lot of his flaws to the forefront, including but not limited to: -Complex/big-stakes story-arc obsessions that get repetitive after a while. -Sassy badass female companions/recurring characters that really struck people as obnoxious and overtaking the Doctor's presence at times. -Continuity nods that might've over-exceeded their welcome and turned off new fans. -Getting less willing to keep people dead at the end of the story (both of 12's companions basically die but oh no theres a thing that lets them live again still) -Writing that gets too contrived, rushed and cheesy as time goes on. -Underutilizing interesting plots and characters in good ways.

Poorly executed storylines and producing pretty much. Capaldi as an actor - fantastic. Some of the best single episodes featured him, like Heaven Sent - the only DW episode entirely carried by one character iirc. Only seen one episode with Whittaker, but she captured him pretty well I think. And she pulled off the Capaldi-isms required make the transition less jarring extremely well. If the writing has improved, I'll probably keep watching.

Capaldi had a bit of a rough run, but the episodes that stand out with him really stand out as some of Doctor Who's best. A fair portion of Season 9 comes to mind, Magician's Apprentice, Witch's Familiar Zygon Invasion/Inversion, Face the Raven, Heaven Sent and Season 10's World Enough and Time. Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline and Husbands of River Song are great as well. It's just that almost every other episode of Capaldi's run is bad to mediocre at best. That's really the worst part of all of this, that some of Capaldi's episodes are genuinely amazing and are going to be seriously difficult to top, but it's all brought down by the flood of weak and boring episodes alongside them.