Steven Moffat On Writing, Weeping Angels, and More | Doctor Who: The Fan Show 

Tyler Bailey people hate him because he has ruined a great show with awful characters and scripts.

He has a nasty habit of killing off popular characters.

Lisa Rodrigues Funnily enough, another criticism by anti-Moffat fans is that he has a "nasty habit" of bringing characters back from the dead. The guy just can't win apparently.

Lisa Rodrigues really. If anything my main criticism is he cant kill anyone off

Anon Ymes The reasons for why he receives hate is that his dialogue and plots are just shocking. He creates characters that overshadow the doctor, resulting in them becoming annoying. He relies way too much on old practises ie Easter eggs leading to a grand finish (Bad Wolf, YANA, etc.), and kills characters off who are underdeveloped and unliked in the first place... then brings them back to pander to the horrendous audience the show has acquired. Before you go SJW, couple years ago EVERYONE I knew watched the show and now no one does. Check the yearly viewership and ratings then tell me why you don’t understand why he’s hated.

Haters: He thinks he's so clever, f*ing prick! Moffat: *literally always self-deprecating, but ok

+1111111

Genius is rarely appreciated in its time. :)

Florence Flowers he struggled with the large arcs but as an ep writer he was brilliant.

He deserved it completely awful writer that turned The Show into a Childish Abomination

Do you read what you write before pressing the button? Just what kind of show do you believe Doctor Who is? It is a family orientated science fiction drama with emphasis on the FAMILY! Do you not feel a little pride when you see the next generation of fans? When you see a little boy wearing a fez waving a toy sonic, do you not feel anything other than how dare he? My inner child sticks it's tongue out at you!

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TardisArmyMax it’s far from an amazing run

@@bazinga743 ever heard of an opinion?

@@bazinga743 Someone’s mad they didn’t get a reply from Doctor Who

TheFallofTheEleventh i dont like the idea of a new era 😢😭😭😭

landonEXE _, I didn't either when it happened back in 2010, but I learnt to get used to it.

Josiana G. Well, it was not brilliant, lets be honest.

Corey M He is

there is an angel's statue in my garden, my mother brought it to home and it seems like it moves when I don't look... I am dead, right?

Kaathe and Frampt No, but you might get sent a couple 50-ish years back in time

Whenever I visit a gallery or museum with Renaissance sculptures I always take some pictures of them and edit the brightness and saturation so they look like weeping angels.

Wait... so the Gods of Ragnarok are actually controlling Doctor Who? :O

multiverse*

Doctor who is the worst show

Oliver Linklater doctor who I the greatest show but not the galaxy the universe

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Adrian Preston: I agree...Rowan would be an interesting Doctor. I also like Bill Nighy ...or maybe Freddie Highmore in the future.

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Jack Black I'm sure there's even more people who should probably subscribe for Capaldi

Probably.

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Doctor Who 1 milons hurura I love doctor who with Sarah jane

Spot on

Yep! RTD was more consistent in his era but when Moffat killed his timey winey stories he KILLED them. Also like his version of the doctor as a mad man in a box more.

Its started. I saw a video the other day stating he is the best writer of Doctor Who.

You were completely correct

Facts xd

The Writer's Tale I wish Moffat had done his own version of that book detailing a series of the show made by him.

Professor Tom PhD That's it! Thank you!!! Yeah I would love to see that

headbite alien Nope! Because we saw her died in RTD era

Thanks. I was trying to work out what it meant lol.

Gingerprince521 Yeah, took me a minute xd

I don’t get it

Hole.

Curse of fatal death is more canon than chinballs crap

Xtra Spice Mikey the channel changed its photo of profiles and we can thus see the new tardis.

Xtra Spice Mikey oh okay x3 . And well for the instent , I havn't seen the interior 😊

#wardoctor too

Weeping Angels and Vashta Nerada for me are the scariest ones.

John Townson ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

Xtra Spice Mikey Disney will never get it's hands on Doctor who it British and you never give Doctor who to America's because they may screw it up.

Anyone can screw Doctor Who up. The BBC certainly have on occasion. It mainly depends on the writing behind it.

Jay Tender he might write some epic episodes then like he did under RTD

i hope he does! He writes some really amazing single stories

Φαλκον Papaphilps I like it but it makes the channel look less official.

Here's the thing about "powerful women" in Moffat's writing: he makes everything about them and their lives revolve around the “amazing male genius” character. The fact that female characters like this are often perceived to be, or sold as being, a “Strong female character” often lies in the fact that they’re physically strong/capable and overtly sexual, which in and of itself is a misogynistic problem. Those are great character traits and they often are elements of strong female characters. But way too often women who ave those qualities in film and television immediately receive the label, while people ignore the enormous misogyny in the way these characters are written in relation to the men in the story and how their entire existence as characters revolve around men. That’s exactly what’s happened with River. Her entire existence as a character - her childhood, her career, her “species”, her lifespan, her freedom, her reason for existing, and more - is made to be completely about The Doctor. But she’s pushed by people as being a “strong female character” because she’s physically capable and overtly sexual. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that she’s those things, and it’s great that she’s very smart and clever. But those are surface aspects of a deeply misogynistic character. And there’s also the fact that there’s a troubling misogyny in way “strong female characters” are identified only but these rather shallow traits, while female characters who are fantastically written, complex, resilient, emotionally strong, hopeful, or any combination of these things, among others (Rose Tyler for instance), are pushed aside, not classified as “strong female characters”, and are even called weak (and other insulting things), simply because they don’t fit into the rather sexist, narrow, and shallow idea of what a”strong female character” is supposed to be.

@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 - how strange, I've just come her looking for that Rose being undereducated quote you see telling me about!

@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 - I could talk for days about Rose. Okay, she's a little annoying in Series 2 but that's mainly when she's given comedic lines. She's so selfish but it's done so well. A lesser writer than Russell would make her selfishness her flaw - but with Rose it's her greatest strength! Amazing character work. Highly recommend Russell's Queer as Folk for more characters which should be villains, but are actually our heroes.

Phoenix 24 😂

michael kowalski I won't

Catic Chaotic series 10 was great except the monk episodes. And the story arc with the vault kind of went nowhere....

Prof. Evil Pictures I actually enjoyed the monk episodes but i didnt really like that they mentioned several internet things. So that couldve been different.

Prof. Evil Pictures I really liked Extremis and The Lie of the Land. But the last one? How many times does Moffat need to use the power of love or memories or something to save the Earth

True but god the ending of season 9 was amazing.