Filed under: Doctor Who Series 6
How series six started off so strongly, and then ended in a rambling incoherent mess will forever remain a mystery. Well, actually no it won’t. I’ve just viewed again the first two episodes of this series and I stand by everything I wrote in those reviews. It was a great idea to start the new series with The Doctor’s death and set up what should have been a really great story arc. Without wanting to sound like a smart arse, I predicted Steven Moffat would make a hash of pulling these endless subplots together though. In fact sometimes he simply didn’t bother. Series six turned into a raging headache as further ideas were thrown into the pot, with scant regard for whether they either worked or could be resolved rationally. The best episodes were the stand alone ones, and that speaks volumes about the direction Doctor Who should be taking. Will Doctor Who take that direction in series seven? That seems very unlikely if Steven Moffat is still the head writer and producer. Now then, before everyone starts thinking I’m off on a Moffat bashing again, it must be noted that he seems hell bent on including every single idea he ever has. The result is scripts that are muddled, confusing and poorly realised. Characters such as River Song becoming downright annoying. And stories that are unnecessarily complicated. Okay, fair enough, I am totally bashing Moffat. Yet, this is the man responsible for my all time favourite Doctor Who episodes (Girl in the Fireplace and Blink) so there’s still hope. But Doctor Who was a different show then, and I feel Russell T Davies probably played a very strong hand in taming and rounding Moffat’s stories. Let of the leash Moffat seems intent on dragging everything he achieved with Russell T Davies and David Tennant through the gutter. And this gutter is getting very very full now.
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