By actually pulling the story threads together instead of scattering them to the 9 winds.

Is that assuming Martin will actually finish the books? I don’t think he will.

If they’d just let HBO hire other writers to take the reigns from S5 onwards, they’d be living legends.

They’re just....not very good writers.

Well, it seems like their careers are over now.

That’s a fair point, although I still love The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone as an action packed Aliens type sequel to Blink, even though it changes a lot about them.

He’s also exceptionally weak at dialogue and characterization, so keeping everything moving quickly is a way of attempting to hide it.

Yep, Prisoner is far above the terrible first two films. The Columbus films are awful—they take everything bad about the books and none of the good.

I still find it absurd that the top comment is defending those two. They’re absolute garbage.

Chibnall did that Westworld thing where he was more worried about online fans guessing the mystery than telling a good story.

Yeah. And the finale usually makes the whole thing seem completely pointless. Doing a serialized story that means something in a never-ending show where the status quo must re-assert itself is hard. Moffat discovered that in S6.

Actually, I mostly agree with Wilkins’ grades for the first three seasons and the Capaldi era. But the Chibnall era has been let off so easy by critics. If it wasn’t Doctor Who, it’d be getting lambasted.

I really don’t like the final season, but the 1st and 4th seasons of Lost remain very watchable for me.

Not always true. Breaking Bad’s improvised third and fourth seasons work much better than its planned second season.

Yeah, I mistyped for some reason. Warriors of the Deep wasn’t the worst idea on paper, but the execution was absolutely appalling.

No way in hell is Azkaban worse than the first two. They’re D-tier versions of Indiana Jones.

I don’t know. There’s quite literally nothing to Order of the Phoenix except for wheel-spinning and a fairly standard critique of the UK’s education system.

—Yes, I do. Your previous point proves that hectic television production can mess with quality, nothing more. As I said upthread, the fact that Jean Luc Picard shows no effects of The Inner Light outside of Lessons is not proof that The Next Generation writing staff couldn’t write characters. The characterization in…

A more polished version of Let’s Kill Hitler would have cleared almost all of it up. It’s just a symptom of the difficulty balancing serialized and episodic storytelling on a show like Doctor Who. It’s not that big a deal—any more than Jean Luc Picard recovering so quickly from The Inner Light makes him a sociopath.…

Again, if you think the character work is lacking, actually explain how outside of stuff that his direct predecessor did verbatim and that particular misstep in Let’s Kill Hitler.