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Doctor Who hard reboot would be "bad idea", argues former showrunner Steven Moffat
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Maybe they just need better writing.
Oh my god, yes. I thought that both Jodie Whitaker and Ncuti Gatwa had amazing chemistry for playing the Doctor and were just kneecapped by terrible writing. It was incredibly frustrating to the point that I had to stop watching.
I stopped during the Whitaker season. I loved her doctor. The episodes were just so... absolutely boring. I didn't even actively decide to not watch it. I just forgot to watch it, because I wasn't really excited for a new episode
Capaldi was just handed shit script after shit script and he did what he could but you really can’t fix a shit script no matter how good an actor you are
Yeah, Capaldi was fantastic, but had to make do with some absolutely terrible writing. Robots of Sherwood legitimately made me mad when I saw it.
Whitaker got the same treatment, but somehow even worse. She couldn't even settle for playing an interesting Doctor in bad story lines. Instead they made her an unironic PTA middle-aged mom trying to be hip, when she could have been so much more.
100%. I absolutely loved both of their takes on the character, but, calling the writing hit or miss is giving it a lot of credit.
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And a consistent production schedule. Parts of Moffat's run (especially around the 50th anniversary) were pretty chaotic because of BBC fuckery (he had to write multiple versions of the 50th IIRC including one with different Doctors and one with no Doctors at all) and although nobody's really talked about it yet, it's a pretty open secret that the RTD2 era was absolute madness behind the scenes, with the BBC and Disney both fucking it about at the same time.
Not that I'm saying there wasn't bad writing as well (Space Babies, you will go down in infamy) but I think having a consistent production (even to the point of knowing if the actor who's playing the Doctor will still be there for the next thing you produce, which has not always been the case) would certainly make it easier to plan things out properly.