the sniper in the brain, regurgitating drain, incestuous and vain

[extemporanea]

I finally found the brainspace and emotional energy to watch the Sherlock special, and... wow. That was an appalling script. Seriously, what were they thinking? Incoherent and self-indulgent and pervaded throughout with an enormous, self-congratulatory sense of its own cleverness, which really wasn't as clever as it thought it was. And I'm not even

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Incoherent and self-indulgent and pervaded throughout with an enormous, self-congratulatory sense of its own cleverness, which really wasn't as clever as it thought it was.
Which is why I can't stand Moffat's work. In my sensibilities, all of his stuff is this. I don't get why he's considered such a hot property.

[extemporanea]

There's often an element of this in his work for me, but it doesn't always predominate to quite this extent. I enjoyed his work in earlier Doctor Who, when it was frequently actually clever, and his tighter control of narrative structure was thrown into relief by Russell Davies's fondness for emotional spectacle over plot, but he's lost a lot of that over time. Also, his deeply dodgy gender politics has become progressively more painful. Like an ingrowing toenail. The bugger about scripts like Bride is that they make me go back and reassess earlier episodes in a far more unfavourable light. In short, you're not wrong :>.

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