[ SECRET POST #2625 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2625 ⌋

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Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

If you're talking recently-aired episodes... yeah, the writing's been going downhill, and it's been doing so in a way that's basically "I have a convoluted plot idea that's too clever by half, but I don't have the time or energy to develop it, so here, you do the work of figuring out what I was trying to do and piecing together a story out of it." Which can easily make you feel dumb for not wanting to do Steven Moffat's job for him by forcing it to make sense.

IDK, there are eras of Classic Who (some of my favorites, in fact) where I'd say "both, the answer is both"--Seven's last two seasons and Christopher H. Bidmead's entire run have the same problem of tossing out ambitious storylines that are missing a lot of exposition/plot-flow/ideas-fitting-together glue and make the viewer feel dumb for having a hard time connecting a bunch of crazy ambiguous dots. But the difference between that and the current run is that the various component parts have substance and are rich in thematic idea porn or mathy/sciencey idea porn, they just aren't fitted together very well. Whereas it seems like Moffat is having an increasingly hard time with the fleshing out phase between ideas and story substance. s25/s26/Bidmead-era scripts often feel like they're still a few drafts away from the final product, but the past two seasons have felt more like outlines spruced up with witty banter. There's less to latch on to.