Doctor Who - 5x13 - The Big Bang

[duskwillow]

I'm spending all of my free time these days watching World Cup.
But I can't skip making Doctor Who finale post. :D

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[duskwillow]

I couldn't agree more, I'm over RTD and has been for a long time. Like you said, he often does angst for the sake of angst, and it doesn't feel organic at all. It's like he tried to outdo himself with every finale, and got lost in shiny CGI instead of being honest to the story and his characters.

RTD and Whedon believe in the bittersweet ending, but life isn't all *rock fall- everyone dies*.
The thing is, for me Whedon does it in an honest way. When he kills a character it makes sense, on his shows actions have a price and there are consequences and causalities.
But Rusty is just bloody lazy and not capable to write a proper story to get a reaction out of the audience so he goes for emotional manipulation. Ianto's death for example, which was completely stupid (as they walked in without a plan after setting that situation up for days), and it served just to shock and be a cliffhanger. Meh.

Moffat shows us that a good story can have it's ups and downs, and still have a joyous ending see: Superman.
I know, I love that!
I'm sick of the trend that's been going on the last few years to kill off characters before hiatus or in season finale, just to have a big event everyone will talk about. You can achieve all that and get the audience interested, without killing anyone, if you're creative enough.
And I love The Moff for always leaving hope, even when he does kill someone (like with River in library episodes).