Comments | plutokitty: A good man and all that

plutokitty

A good man and all that

Jun 05, 2011 22:57

So I've just come back from a business trip then mini-vacation so my brain isn't especially coherent, but I did take a bit and watch the latest DW to unwind. And, some not very coherent thoughts:

( spoilers, naturally. )

fandom: doctor who, babble: fandom

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mind_the_tardis June 6 2011, 04:06:33 UTC

The 'Runaway' bit bothered me, too. As well as did a whoooole bunch of other things, but I've already done my spieling on those elsewhere.

I've talked (at length and repeatedly, ahem, I may have Thoughts on this) about Moffat's writing with several folks, and we've arrived at the thought that he seems to do best with very short stories. The longer they get, the more he seems to try to tie loose ends onto other loose ends onto other loose ends onto story arcs within story arcs within alternate realities. Most of his eps in the earlier seasons of Who show the multiple realities/time loops/predestined actions that make these season arcs so off-the-wall and complicated-but he has to tie them up in one (or two) episodes, so there's not enough time for them to balloon like they do when he has whole spans of seasons to go back on and stitch together.

plutokitty June 6 2011, 14:23:15 UTC

I think you're definitely on to something. He does seem far better self-contained, reined in so there aren't all these less-than-successful major mysteries. I'm sure the man is much cleverer than me, but he does not seem quite the right kind of mind for what he keeps trying to pull off.

mind_the_tardis June 6 2011, 14:43:18 UTC

I will put good money down that Moffat is not cleverer than you. You seem fairly clever!

plutokitty June 6 2011, 18:25:34 UTC

Aww you are sweet. But he is writing for real. Er. Well. His stuff is on television. ;)

Why do you always have the cutest icons arrrrgh :D

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azn_jack_fiend June 6 2011, 12:55:12 UTC

Yeah, I enjoyed it but I'm disappointed too. I keep expecting something as tight as TEC/TDD... and not getting it.

I never bothered watching Sherlock because I heard so many bad things about ep2, but if it suffers from the same mystery construction problems as this DW ep, I'm even happier I gave it a miss.

plutokitty June 6 2011, 14:36:27 UTC

I keep expecting something as tight as TEC/TDD... and not getting it.

Exactly. Mostly I come away going "this had phenomenal potential but ultimately is a mess." Season 5 held together moderately better because it was more fairytale/lighter-hearted and childlike; S6 just seems to be all over the place. That last episode ought to have been three or four, really.

Sherlock episode 2 is the worst. I could barely finish it and my roommate and I just spent most of it laughing out loud in disbelief. (She's not Asian and even she found it offensive). I never watched episode 3 because I just gave up at that point, but she said though it is better, it still has the same problems we saw in 1 (which we both thought was OK but not stunning).

For me at least, he seems to confuse "keep your viewer wondering" with "throw lots of random things in the way of the story," and when he does drop hints, he's not as subtle as he seems to think he's being.