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Re: Writers/creators you can't stop hating on

[(Anonymous)]

It does make complete sense. IMO it's because Moffat actually sucks at most things, and is very good at a few things, so when he has control over what he does, 80% of what he does sucks, whereas when he doesn't have control, the guy who is in control can make him do only the 20% that he's good at, and make it so that his results are very good. Two of the things Moffat is really good at is a) coming up with cool ideas and b) writing really entertaining dialogue and interaction (when he doesn't indulge himself too much), he's at his best when the scope of what he's doing is really, really severely restrained to that.

Like, look at The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. He had to convince RTD and the audience he was a good writer, because he had no celebrated record to demand respect with. He had to devote a considerable portion of the episode developing Jack, who was a character created by RTD and who had a a story that RTD came up with that continued past Moffat's episode. The episode was in his first season and near the end of the season, so he couldn't put in any crazy new ideas, he had to build on the ideas that had already been outlined in the prior episodes. He had to make his script synchronize with the season's overall themes of war and loss (I have no idea how micromanaged or hands-off DW scripts are, but he very well could've been told he had to write a story set in the Blitz where x y z happened), and he had to advance the Nine/Rose relationship from Father's Day.

So he really just didn't have room to fuck around and introduce his own dumb plots and weird directions and characterizations. He only had the freedom to a) come up with cool ideas (the gasmask zombies, the zepplins, the children, who Moffat is always good at writing, and the mystery), and b) write entertaining dialogue and interaction (all the witty interplay between the Doctor, Rose, and Jack, the dancing, the Doctor being gloriously nutty, etc). Which of course, are the things he's good at.