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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-09-14 03:43 pm

[ SECRET POST #2812 ]


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(Anonymous) 2014-09-14 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's just you? I don't have a problem following his stories.
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[personal profile] dreemyweird 2014-09-14 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It may partly be my problem, mostly 'cause I'm very sensitive to continuity issues and my brain quickly goes abort at anything that seems illogical.

But I'm also not a Whovian - maybe Moffat's writing on Who makes more sense than his other projects do?

(Anonymous) 2014-09-15 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
It does not.

Every single one of the new episodes has been illogical to the point of distraction. I'm also very timeline and logic-conscious, but even if you're not, this series episodes are just very bad. I have seen children's shows on CBBC with better plotlines.

The premises are horrible. Into the Dalek was particularly bad.

A rebel group captures a Dalek... and it's a bit of a weird one, but in order to 'repair' the Dalek, they have to be shrunk and put inside it. Through the eye stalk. For some horrible Fantastic In-Body Journey style rubbish.

Never mind that it's been established for LONGER THAN I HAVE BEEN ALIVE that you can reach the squirmy kaled inside the Dalek's armour by OPENING THE CASING. It's not as if this is a Classic Who thing, it's happened during the revival multiple times.

That the premise for that episode STARTS with something totally unnecessary and just pointlessly runs with it... ARGH.

So no, it does not make sense. And before anybody says it, it being a silly science fiction series does not excuse the lack of sense-making.

(Anonymous) 2014-09-15 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Anon you've kind of hit on why I have issues with Moffat's writing. It rarely makes sense or falls into line of "what makes sense" in terms of Who. And it's not just that he doesn't follow classic Who, he can't even keep the rules straight from new Who and not just RTD's rules but HIS OWN RULES (see: the weeping angels and their completely random canon.)

I am fine with silly science fiction (science is not my major anyway so you could probably get away with a lot with me) but I still think there needs to be rules as to how a certain world works. Moffat tends to rely way to heavily on thinking the audience either a. doesn't get it b. doesn't care or c. won't remember it. But then I've also read interviews where he openly admits he doesn't do his research.

I really think he's the type of writer who needs an editor to come in and tell him what works and what doesn't. Being a showrunner has not helped his writing skills at all.

(Anonymous) 2014-09-15 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
Agreed!! Maybe I'm just losing my suspension of disbelief but almost every episode this season has had major internal logic problems that are just hand-waved away like:

'What if X is a Y? Ha! we had you going there, actually X is Z!'

'But what about when A, B and C happened? Aren't they things that would only happen if X was a Y?'

'No idea what you're talking about...oooh look over there!' *vanishes*