[armand.kay]

So I've recently had a rewatch of new who and I've realised that I've given Steven Moffat such a hard time and Russell T Davies run wasn't as perfect as I remember. Like his obsession with Rose was honestly so annoying to re watch and season 2 had some awful episodes. in hindsight Moffat was pretty good like this last series was phenomenal, amy and rory were brilliant companions and the 50th anniversary was great. My only problem with him really were his grand convoluted story arcs and how the companions would always end upping 'special'....

[user104658]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

So I've recently had a rewatch of new who and I've realised that I've given Steven Moffat such a hard time and Russell T Davies run wasn't as perfect as I remember. Like his obsession with Rose was honestly so annoying to re watch and season 2 had some awful episodes. in hindsight Moffat was pretty good like this last series was phenomenal, amy and rory were brilliant companions and the 50th anniversary was great. My only problem with him really were his grand convoluted story arcs and how the companions would always end upping 'special'....

I still say Matt Smith's journey as The Doctor is the best so far, especially if you binge-rewatch it over a week or so and the contrast of the fishfingers and custard guy from his first ep, to the moment he regenerates as Capaldi, is really vivid. He really felt like he had "aged" and changed in that incarnation - and he is supposed to have lived for several hundred years as the Matt Smith incarnation... travelling alone for a lot of it, picking up Amy and Rory intermittently as they also live a normal life (but it's implied that from his perspective he's sometimes been travelling around for decades between visits) and also living out an entire, presumably centuries long, relationship with River Song, and then hundreds of years in the war on Trenzalore.

IMO it's a much more interesting way of doing it than the more "linear" Eccleston / Tennant arc.