[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Braden

See, I never really noticed a reliance on Daleks. Maybe because I was young and naive at the time, but I enjoyed all of the episodes that included them (except, ironically enough, the first one that reintroduced them...and even that wasn't so bad)). I liked the simplicity of key-word arcs, but again, that could be because I was quite young at the time. I'd much rather have subtle hints of keywords than the complicated and intricate story-telling of Moffatt's era. I feel like RTD's era did a good job of producing stand-alone episodes, but tied them all together quite nicely at certain points of relevance. The only Moffatt season that comes close to doing that is S5, and 'the crack in the wall' still grew to become tiresome—also, don't get me started on that shocking season finale.

I do agree with how he made LGBT characters appear more like statements rather than complex additions. I can't even think of any LGBT character he included apart from Captain Jack, who I enjoyed nonetheless.

I stopped watching during S6. I think the season being split into two parts was the final state for me. It was complicated enough without having to wait months and months to establish any sense to the narrative (which never usually happened anyway from what I gather ).

Having the Daleks be the big bad in three our of four series was massively problematic for me. The problem with the keywords, I think is that there wasn't any real development. They'd throw in references and wait until the last block of episodes for a payoff.

Captain Jack is a sore spot for me and a big reason why I dislike Russell. Jack's meant to be bisexual (not bothering with the silly stand in sexuality they came up with in the show) but the only time he ever felt like a bisexual character was in his first appearances in the Empty Child two parter and even then that was mired by the stereotype of Bi people being overly flirty/promiscuous. Once Russell got his hands on him he straight up dropped the bisexuality and made him gay which I find particularly offensive since that's just another stereotype checked off the list. Bisexuality is woefully represented in most TV shows and it bothers me that Russell T. Davies would take one that was mostly well written (Flirty stereotype aside) and would turn him into another gay character for no reason than his own ego.