Doctor Who: What I THINK will happen, what I DON'T think will happen and what I HOPE will happen
So, last night, I spent about an hour or so chatting to mcalex22 about what's been happening to us lately, the travelling we've both got planned for next month, why the last season of Supernatural rekindled her interest in the show but lost mine and, towards the end, some of the reasons why we are both approaching the second half of this year's Doctor Who
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You know that I'm not much of a shipper in any fandom really, but I really want Rory to get the girl of his dreams because he loves her so utterly. For better or worse. For richer or poorer. In sickness and in health and BEYOND DEATH! Several times over!
And Moffat's last season finale was the happiest fairytale season finale ever! His trademarks seem to be either ghastly cliffhangers or happy/bittersweet endings. There was at least one series that he ended with a big Downer ending, but that was a very adult show and he knows that Doctor Who is a family show and he writes it with the kids in mind.
(As an aside, I recently read an interview where the reporter asked him if he thought his plots were too convoluted for kids to understand them. Moffat asked them "Did your kids understand what was going on?" The reporter admitted that their kids had no trouble with that. So Moffat said, "There you go then. The plots are complicated so you have to concentrate while watching, you can't be doing something else else like tweeting at the same time. When kids watch the show they give it their full attention." And I have to admit that I kinda punched the air at that point. I do try to not be too much of a fangirl, but Moffat apparently writes a "family show" with the direct intention of getting kids (and adults) to think. The results may not always achieve that, but the intention alone deserves a round of applause IMHO).
But anyway. Although I'm scared to get my hopes up too much, I do cling to the fact that Moffat is not Joss Whedon. They might both be Magnificent Bastards, but Moffat does so by scaring the crap out of you (Weeping Angels, Monsters under the Bed, Cracks in your walls, the Silence you can't remember when you look away). He (mostly) doesn't exert his Bastardtry by breaking his audience's hearts. Not in the long term.
So yeah, fingers crossed so very much.
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