11/12/2023 0 Comments Stream twice upon a time doctor who![]() We're not going to go into a long peroration about all Moffat's faults here. We're hardly going to deny that Moffat has disappointed us far (far, far, far, far, far) more times than he's entranced us, but balanced against that, Moffat's tenure has included a number of our favourite episodes of the entire series. ![]() Some of that's about our lack of optimism about his successor, but much of it Moffat has earned all by himself. As a result, the Twelfth Doctor doesn't top the list of our favourite Doctors, but only a yoghurt would deny that he is nevertheless way, way up there and, when given the rare opportunity, is spine-tinglingly, hair-raisingly brilliant.Īnd Steven Moffat? In the hiatus since the end of the last season, we found to our astonishment we were actually quite sad at the thought of his leaving. ![]() Nor did much of it truly exploit Capaldi's talent, and given that they had an actor who can kill it like few others, it's a crying shame that far too often they used a diamond to prop up a wobbly table. There was some squirmingly ghastly comedy, he was vulpine and dark for a while, then it all seemed to be an act, but nothing was consistent for long and none of it hung together. There's been far too much writing that grated against his Doctor's personality and even more than just didn't seem to get what that personality was. While Peter Capaldi basically Doctors like a boss at every opportunity, those opportunities haven't come often enough for us. We haven't been quite as enraptured by his Doctor as a lot of people, granted. Obviously, between the two of them it's a lot easier to feel boohooish about Peter Capaldi leaving. ![]() (This is the part where we are measured, balanced and statesmanlike, so don't blink as it doesn't last long. And with Twice Upon A Time Moffat has handed us a priceless gift: he made it so annoying that any regrets we had about the end of either tenure were snuffed out faster than a candle on a mountain bike.Īnd that's a shame, because mixed though they might have been with many other emotions, prior to viewing this episode we really did have some sadness about the departures. Twice Upon A Time is an episode freighted with significance, drawing to a close as it does not only the tenure of the Twelfth Doctor but also the reign of showrunner Steven Moffat. ![]()
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