Now I also feel horribly guilty for spoiling your New Year... :( SPOILING? I was bouncing with glee when I saw your post, cause I could finally try to put down all the thoughts that maia's post sparked in me, but that I couldn't use there. I should have started with a big THANK YOU! *g*
I know, this is why I picked it out and why it baffles me so much that it feels so different from his other episodes. TEC/TDD are easily my favourite S1 episodes. I don't know what changed after that... Early days? Also, Moffat was probably trying to write to whatever specs RTD had given him, tying it in with the overall themes of the season. The Girl in the Fireplace does the same thing (I always feel that that ep and School reunion are almost a two-parter). Blink is such a standalone that it doesn't really count. And SitL and FotD are Moffat giving us a preview of his own brand of the Whoniverse.
I know, and I hope it doesn't sound like I'm blaming him for writing differently. I'm just trying to figure out why his writing doesn't click with me... I hate it when I don't understand myself. Oh I know that feeling! F.ex. I adored S2 of Being Human, except for the finale which really didn't work for me. I've managed to pinpoint why, but it still irks me, because I want to like it. Am hoping things will look up in S3. *crosses fingers*
Oh, and I should have mentioned the Doctor's speech at the end of 'Vincent and the Doctor' as the perfect example of Moffat Who's view of life and death - the whole 'pile of good things and bad things'. Also, I often come back to the scene in the Silurian episodes when Rory & co bring Alaya's body down. The Doctor's reaction is just very quiet and disappointed - no ranting, no shouting, no 'How COULD you?' So much more pragmatic. (And older.) I'm not saying this is *better*, just that his attitude is very different from Ten's (very justified) volatility and anger in the face of stupid, pointless death.
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SPOILING? I was bouncing with glee when I saw your post, cause I could finally try to put down all the thoughts that maia's post sparked in me, but that I couldn't use there. I should have started with a big THANK YOU! *g*
I know, this is why I picked it out and why it baffles me so much that it feels so different from his other episodes. TEC/TDD are easily my favourite S1 episodes. I don't know what changed after that...
Early days? Also, Moffat was probably trying to write to whatever specs RTD had given him, tying it in with the overall themes of the season. The Girl in the Fireplace does the same thing (I always feel that that ep and School reunion are almost a two-parter). Blink is such a standalone that it doesn't really count. And SitL and FotD are Moffat giving us a preview of his own brand of the Whoniverse.
I know, and I hope it doesn't sound like I'm blaming him for writing differently. I'm just trying to figure out why his writing doesn't click with me... I hate it when I don't understand myself.
Oh I know that feeling! F.ex. I adored S2 of Being Human, except for the finale which really didn't work for me. I've managed to pinpoint why, but it still irks me, because I want to like it. Am hoping things will look up in S3. *crosses fingers*
Oh, and I should have mentioned the Doctor's speech at the end of 'Vincent and the Doctor' as the perfect example of Moffat Who's view of life and death - the whole 'pile of good things and bad things'. Also, I often come back to the scene in the Silurian episodes when Rory & co bring Alaya's body down. The Doctor's reaction is just very quiet and disappointed - no ranting, no shouting, no 'How COULD you?' So much more pragmatic. (And older.) I'm not saying this is *better*, just that his attitude is very different from Ten's (very justified) volatility and anger in the face of stupid, pointless death.