I lead a Tom Hiddleston appreciation life.
I think a lot of the problems that the Doctor Who fandom has centres around the fact that, for the most part, we are divided into the Russel T. Davies and Steven Moffat camps, in terms of which Head Writer’s era we prefer. Now, I’m not saying that everyone who hates Moffat…
One of the best photos ever taken
i love how benedict is standing wth his arm around natasha like he’s taking a photo with the avengers but then moffat is just like I am Thor.
astridtheinvinciblespacewitch:
That’s nice, Steven.
actual antichrist steven Moffat
now do you non bbc people know why we fear him
Possibly the best thing I’ve ever made in my life.
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dear lord
doctor who fans who are under the impression that moffat writes every single line in the show
“There’s only so much hate somebody can stand before they have to cave in for fear of their own wellbeing.
I hope that those people attacking him realise what harm they’ve actually been doing and feel ashamed.
Just because somebody works in the spotlight doesn’t mean you’re allowed to hold them to a higher standard than every other person and tear them apart for anything you can find the slightest fault with.
I don’t care what anyone’s personal opinion of Steven Moffat and his work is- there’s no excuse for the kinds of hate he is battered with every day. As rational tumblrites we see hate sent to other tumblr users and immediately go to their defence- even if we don’t like a particular blog most of us understand that shouting abuse and death threats and calls for suicide are completely and utterly wrong. Why is it so different for somebody that just so happens to work in the tv industry? A fan just like us who has their ideas and runs with them and tries to create something fun and interesting? Even for those who dislike his work for whatever reason should be able to see that whilst grumbling to themselves and others or forming actual critiques is fine- outright abusing someone just because they didn’t happen to produce something you think is perfect, or even just to your taste, is horrid.
I’m not as thick skinned as Moffat is- if I were him I would have left twitter ages ago. I hope that he can find comfort in his friends and family and knows that beyond the haters there are still people that value his work and know that he’s as human as the rest of us. And I hope that this might be able to send a message to those in the fandom that think that internet hate, and in particular purposefully directing hate towards somebody else, is a justifiable action, come to realise that that is completely 100% NOT WHAT THIS FANDOM IS ABOUT.
Grow the fuck up guys- and learn the difference between disliking or having an issue with something, and outright attacking those whose actions you’ve taken issue to. “
lets see how many times we can get the title of our show into the script of our show
I think that Sherlock might win for that.
So I had a dream that I was auditioning for Sherlock and when they gave me the lines I was supposed to read I totally blanked and all I could think about was the Doctor Who theme song so I just started singing “WEEE OOOO” and everyone stared at me until Steven Moffat just slowly clapped.
BUT MOFFAT IS SUCH A GoOD WRITER GUISE.
I mean, how many companions can really pass this test?
Name one thing about Rose’s that doesn’t involve the Doctor, her mom, her dad Mickey, or her job when she met the Doctor. I’m drawing a blank.
When she was sixteen she dropped school and moved out because she was in love with Jimmy Stone, which resulted in her never getting her A-levels. He later broke her heart and she returned to live with Jackie.
Is that enough?
RTD may have his flaws when it comes to writing (nobody’s perfect anyway) but at least he made the effort to give us glimpses of the life the companions had before meeting the Doctor. Moffat doesn’t care because that’s obviously not that important.
To be fair, we know about her best friend Mels, but only when it’s suddenly sprung on us in “Let’s Kill Hitler” that the daughter we met and lost was in fact named for a mutual best friend (Rory doesn’t blink at “Melody,” which I would think he would—either “You named our daughter after that troublemaker?” or “Aww, yeah, Mels.”
I would say the face that we know about the parents of every single RTD Whovian is pretty significant. The point for me isn’t how many details we know, but that the companions have a coherent life outside of the plotlines of the show. Questions I’ve asked in this regard:
- Doesn’t Rory have parents? Where are they?
- We fought so hard to get Amy’s parents back. What’s going on there?
- Do either of them maintain a relationship with their parents? Do their parents know why they disappear for months on end? Do they know about River?
- Did they have any other close friends besides Mel? Their hometown is really small, wouldn’t people notice they were gone? Wouldn’t that make people ask questions?
- What about Amy’s horrible aunt? Did she just disappear?
- Does Rory have any siblings?
- Is Rory still a nurse? Was he studying to become a doctor, or did he want to be a nurse (little decisions like that tell us a lot about a character)?
They’re little things, sure, but things that tell us a lot about a character—that build a whole world. How much do we understand about Donna because we’ve seen her family situation, because of the few details we get about how she gets along with friends and coworkers? Martha’s characterization makes so much sense when we think about her family and her job. With Rose, we didn’t just get a character, we got a whole community in the Powell Estates and one minute with Jackie tells us a whole lot of what we need to know about who and why Rose is Rose.
There’s life outside the Doctor, and what we see of the lives of the RTD companions emphasizes that. It builds the specific character and the world and deals with some of the real consequences of what it would mean to travel with the Doctor. It was an elegant feat of characterization on the part of RTD and his writers—tiny clues that, if you’re paying attention, build up a whole world.
This may not have been the case with classic Who so much. But after 4 years of a very coherent contemporary London world full of people with lives and consequences, the very lack of information we know about Amy and Rory’s admittedly smaller community feels (to me, at least) like something is missing.
Yes! We know what RTD’s companions did after they left the Doctor. Admittedly, Moffat’s not done with the Ponds, but RTD wasn’t done with Rose when he set her up with Torchwood in Pete’s world.
