A Creeping Sense Of Unease

[poliphilo]

The Girl in the Fireplace is a near perfect thing-  a touching love story, with a sense of the cruelty of time, good jokes and some ingenious, scary monsters. Blink is wonderfully clever. The Doctor Dances makes me happy. All the stories Stephen Moffatt wrote for Who in the RTD era have a magic about them.

So far- with Moffat running the show- there have been flashes of that magic, but only flashes.  Last night's episode- The Beast Below- threw lots of cute ideas at the screen- too many for the time frame- and rushed its ending. Hit the right button and the problem is solved-  which is what happened- rather too often- under RTD. So, not so much timey-wimey as samey-wamey. And next week there will be daleks... 

Don't you think it's looking tired?

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The actor who plays Sir Winston was last seen as a comedy vicar in Jonathan Creek.

I think Moffat has run through his stock of ideas- and is now running through them again. It happens to most writers sooner or later- even indisputably great ones. I'm also beginning to wonder (is this heresy?) whether Matt Smith isn't a bit lightweight.

I'll keep watching. I'm still hoping that sometime this season they'll air an episode that'll knock my socks off.