The 13th Doctor

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Yerm said:

SecondWar said:

I agree with several points here, but it was mainly that Moffat was just not as good as Russell Davies, simply because Davies planned the key elements of his 4 seasons from the beginning. It was clear Moffat was doing this as early as his secind season when you step as realise that the logic behind the Silence had completely changed and didn't fit with the continuity. The same happened with the 2 Trenzalore epiosdes.

He did have some really good standalone episodes, Heaven Sent to me was amazing and The Day of the Doctor was no disappointment, but some moments were really overplayed and became cheesey - my picks here being Amy and Rory's death (probably going to feel some heat for that) and Clara whispering into the crack in the universe in the time of the doctor.

i wont deny that he did write some great episodes, but i think his best work is the episodes he wrote for the 9th and 10th doctor. he was great for solo episodes but his convoluted multi-episode arks that he attempted felt silly, like he just it up as it went along. 

Totally agree. Moffat was a brilliant writer of stand-alone episodes during the Davies era. So much so, in fact, that I was positively overjoyed when he became show runner. I didn't realize then that Moffat's strengths as a single-story writer would translate so poorly to the demands of a larger, longer arc. Moffat, for all his ingenious dialogue, has backed himself into a corner again and agan throughout his tenure. He writes himself into a jam, then writes himself out of it, often changing the series' continuity in the process. He consistently sacrifices character and canon to tell the story he wants to tell in that moment. It makes for some powerful, mind-bending stuff, but it has long-term negative effects on the series.