I will basically take anyone who is not Moffat or Gatiss. A tonal shift is needed so very badly.

God, if they hire Gatiss I'm gone for real. He's just Moffat!Lite, with no original ideas. And he's been writing lowlight episodes for a few seasons now; "Sleep No More" was his contribution this year and it was AWFUL.

Quite a few people deeply disliked last season as well (myself sort of among them, though not with as much intensity as I truly hate season 7). It was very rote and also very out of character for everyone — Clara got 100% rebooted with a handy dandy "She's bossy!" trope on top of it all, Capaldi's Doctor was shaky and…

I mean, I have to force myself to and I do it in hopes that it will get better. It hasn't. Every time it seems like it MIGHT be getting better, Moffat pulls another punch, negates another plot point, and loses me all over again. It's been a hell of a slog. And, like I said, I'm not the only person who feels that way…

I think it at least partially gets attributed to Moffat because some of it is due to his narrative choices. Watching Doctor Who has become a grind for me, and this is a show that has been one of my very favorites for a long time now. What's pushed me away is not when it airs or how to watch it or whether to watch it…

Doctor Who's popularity explosion is because of its addition to Netflix in the U.S., which happened to coincide with the beginning of Moffat's tenure. Moffat's kept much, but not all, of the audience; Russell T. Davies is the one who hooked them in the first place.

I mean, my problem with it is that THIS Doctor spent all of last year and two episodes this year railing against soldiers and war and death and cruelty and then he just… shoots someone for the hell of it. I think it's sloppy writing at best and utter bullshit at worst. Yet you seem to have a problem with my having an…

"I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead. Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away, and I'm dead."

Actually, the Moffat era coincided with the release of Doctor Who on Netflix for the first time in the U.S., so while Season 5 was airing, the U.S. was getting hooked on Chris Eccleston and David Tennant. Moffat wasn't the reason for that popularity, he was just the beneficiary.

I dunno, I feel pretty solid about Moffat being an objectively terrible showrunner, even if some people prefer his style to RTD's. There's also a steady ratings slide to support my theory. But hey, to each their own I guess.

Great episode writer, piss poor showrunner.

I mean, five years running the show and we've got two decent female character examples from season 9. That's… not an awesome record.

Ugh.

No, actuality.

"Moffat has been reinforcing "A future female or POC Doctor is absolutely canon and possible" thing since the moment he took creative control."
No, he's been doing that since people started (rightly) accusing him of misogyny for his bizarrely abysmal treatment of Amy, who was suppose to be the Doctor's best friend but…

"* Also, a hybrid consisting of two people is not a hybrid. It's really just two people. "

…Time Lords only regenerate when they're dying. So yeah, he killed someone.

Possibly because Moffat's storytelling is so muddled and convoluted and contradictory that he undermines everything he's been trying to do by making the show more "classic"?

I mean, it would have been it if it was written well and in-character and not played for laughs.

She's been in an anniversary special. We don't need her in another. We needed her to DIE so that there are finally consequences to anything that happens on Moffat's Who. But as I told all my friends who were convinced that Moffat really did it this time: I knew she was going to come back. There's not a single plot…