[TheFightingSpirit]

I often wonder how much of Doctor Who's problems are Moffat and how much is "executive meddling". Case in point: The decision to shoe-horn a man who is known to work best across an hour, or in multi-part stories, into 25 minute one shots. Tbh, most writers know their strengths and weaknesses. As much as I'm not defending him here, I can't bring myself to blame it all on him.

This is of course blatently ignoring the sexism and complete lack of understanding of the building blocks of story-telling that pervades everything he does now days...

I agree whole-heartedly that Matt Smith alone carried the last few series.

But it's strange... I was so ready for RTD to leave (absolutely sick of the melodrama and over- reliance and abundance of explosions and john barrowman/catherine tate and, well, so on). I welcomed Moffat with open arms. I thought, hey, here's a guy who's not too bad given his writing credits so far.

Well as it turns out, Moff has better less vapid ideas with below subpar execution (my favourite RTD era episodes are penned by him. He just works better when pulled back by a co-writer of some kind) and RTD has subpar ideas with a near consistant track record of enjoyment (which Moff is really, really lacking in).

Don't get me wrong I've enjoyed it all since 2005, but I can't bring myself to get off the fence on either of the reboots showrunners. I guess I love and hate both of them equally -shrug. Then again no one is totally perfect, and frankly I love Who to bits. So I'm not complaining