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Do you really think Sue Vertue, who is my boss, would be married to a sexist? Do you think Mark Gatiss would be best pals with a homophobe? I mean how could this work? My boss is my wife, my other boss is my mother-in-law.
Steven Moffat (via doogiestinson)
y'know I thought my heart was already broken so nothing could hurt me anymore
but then bbc just took the broken pieces of my heart and made a fucking smoothie
This took me literally forever to make.
But it's okay i lost all of my sanity anyway lol
oopsie my finger slipped
what she says: I’m fine
what she means: I’m literally so nervous for Sherlock season 4 i mean I'm excited about the christmas special and ready to have some emotional debates over the return of John’s mustache but I'm also literally so nervous someone please tie me down. and benedict cut his hair and i can't handle sherly without HIS PRECIOUS ANGEL CURLS I MEAN WTF. And will the christmas special somehow effect the outcome of the characters in season 4? Will it just be a giant paralleled hint? Will it have any effect on the current characters? Also, are you going to make johnlock basically nonexistent now that Mary’s here? Or is something going to happen with that character arc? Also, steven mofatt said “The first series was all about the beginning of their friendship. Second about the formative stages, the love and fear and loss and all that. The third was good days, me and my pal and my pal’s wife. Those are golden days. The missing element in a lot of Sherlock Holmes adaptations is allowing it to be funny. There’s a lot of humor in Sherlock Holmes, and it’s ignored in a lot of adaptations. [Season 4] is going to be… I suppose you’d say… consequences. It’s consequences. Chickens come to roost. It’s dark in some ways—obviously it’s great fun and a Sherlock Holmes romp and all that—but there’s a sense of… things… coming back to bite you.” Do you know what this means? i mean neither do I but i s2g that I'm not emotionally prepared for what it is somebody hold me. And I mean ffs could he be any more vague and broody, “dark consequences”. So if this is the “Darkest” season as he suggested then WTF were all the other seasons? Is it gonna be darker than season 1 and 2 because how much darker can you actually get I mean you’ve already hit the floor of hell (emotion-wise) and i did not wait 2 years for another season where everyone dies and comes back got life. I mean its cool that Moriartys back but i just wish that maybe you would stop playing with my emotions. I know that they said moriartys “definitely dead” but at this point if i trusted everything you said than i’d be stupid. And is that why you made the third season more catered towards the fans and lighthearted and altogether more like a giant fan fiction (not that I'm saying thats bad). Was that just a cheap trick to make people excited about getting back to fun stuff after the 3rd season? Im honestly so stressed right now and I need answers.
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thinking abt how 15 said fish fingers and custard are his favorite, and I know it’s Moffat cramming in as many of his doctors’ references in one episode, but,,,…..is it anymore? I thought the point of that Eleventh Hour sequence was to show how even little things like what foods he likes changes regeneration to regeneration. so maybe, to 15’s tongue, fish fingers and custard is just as gross as beans or apples or wine was to 11. I’m reading into it too hard but I love the idea for the Doctor to have to deal with the fact they don’t like the same foods anymore and need to try things they had aversions to in previous incarnations to see what they like, and to face the fact they don’t fit into the clothes that they recognize as theirs, and that whatever was once comfortable to them, second-nature for a time, is thrown by the wayside over and over again. Maybe 15 will say “I like bowties, they’re cool” or “I love fish fingers and custard”, and a voice will creep into his mind asking Do you? Or are you just clinging to the futile tatters of your identity, lying just to yourself to keep the fact you can never be comfortable being one person for long enough?
just watched Sherlock BBC season 4 episode 1. New CONFRONT character unlocked. JOHN FUCKING WATSON WHEN I CATCH YOU JOHN WHEN I CATCH YOU IT IS ON SIGHT ISTG WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU THAT WOMAN IS A STRANGER AND YOUR WIFE IS AMAZING AND SHERLOCK DID NOTHING WRONG YOU ABSOLUTE CLOD WHY DID THE WRITERS CHUCK HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OUT THE WINDOW!? IT IS ON SIGHT STEVEN MOFFAT ON SIGHT MARK GATISS ON SIGHT WHEN I CATCH YOU WHEN I FUCKING CATCH YOU ISTG I CANNOT DO THIS TODAY I CANT I JUS- i need to go to bed.
concerned mothers is to russell t davies what dead people’s consciousness being stored in a whacky sci-fi database is to steven moffat
Doctor Who universe characters/situations as John Mulaney quotes (part three):
Season 2 episode 4, the girl in the fireplace:
RTD and Moffat writing characters vs Chibnall writing characters
Rose in Army of Ghosts:
Rose Tyler and Sarah Jane taking about the Doctor:
Twelve in Dark Water when he said to Clara “Go to hell”
Donna Noble in The Runaway Bride:
Twelve when Clara asks if he found Gallifray:
Eleven when he rigenerated in Twelve
John Hart to the Torchwood team:
Twelveth Doctor:
I still don't understand "The Final Problem"
My mom: (idk what she was talking about here) “is tHAT IT?!” Me: Mother, you have just summed up my feelings for last night’s Sherlock episode (the final problem) in a sentence.
It’s like “How I Met Your Mother” but in this case we would call it “How I Sold my Soul to Moffat”
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I will unhesitatingly jump on any post that allows me to call out Steven Moffat for the ignorant, hackneyed, unimaginative, fraudulent fucking hack he is
He owes almost all his career to the fact his wife and mother-in-law are powerful and influential producers at the BBC and the fact is that if you write semi-seriously, there is at least a 50% chance you are a more talented writer than him
It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.
There's a famous old joke variously attributed to Wilde, Twain, Johnson and Wilberforce that says "your writing is both good and original, but the bits that are original aren't good and the bits that are good aren't original". They could have been talking about Steven Moffat.
Moffat is a C-tier writer at very best. He has two main strengths: taking other people's ideas and making them worse so they can be televised, and stringing viewers along by the use of constant cliffhangers and ever more complicated plot twists that go nowhere knowing he'll never have to pay them off.
He knows how to write two male characters and one female character, and they end up in everything he writes. He single-handedly destroyed the Doctor Who reboot's momentum, which took them over a decade to get back; he made a TV adaptation of The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde so bad that it's probably destroyed the concept for a generation; he made quite possibly the worst adaptation of Dracula that's ever been written, and this is before I even get to the colossal pile of self-indulgent, tone-deaf, over-produced, nonsensical crap that was Sherlock. This is a man, in the words of Alan Partridge's Tony Hayers, with a track record of making mostly bad television programs. So how did he get into this position, and how did he stay there?
He met his wife, Sue Vertue, in 1996. Sue is a producer and was the daughter of another extremely famous producer, Beryl Vertue. Incidentally, this is about when Moffat's career started picking up. He had his first big success with Coupling in 2000, both produced by his wife and mother-in-law. They'd go on to produce his follow-up, the aforementioned Jekyll, in 2007, and then produced all four series of Sherlock.
Steven Moffat is a serial mediocrity who has spent his life failing upwards, and the more he fails, and the less he learns from it, the worse his writing gets. When they come to write the book on the bizarre social clusterfuck that was the fandom era, Moffat will need his own chapter. And it will not be kind to him.
It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.
Oh absolutely, all this doesn't even touch on WHY his writing is so bad. His dialogue is glib, he constantly writes himself into a corner by adding dialogue that either contradicts his old work or needlessly ties his hands going forward purely because of how cool it sounds in that moment, and his "plot twists" are illogical sophistries designed only to get him out of jail for doing so before he inevitably does it again and repeats the whole cycle. It's a writing style based entirely on "jam tomorrow".
But writing is a strange pastime which always holds a magnifying glass up to the writer; all your biases, all your values, all your prejudices have a tendency to come out on the page with you. Good writers can mitigate this to a degree; Steven Moffat, as we've established, is not a good writer.
There are a number of problematic tropes that constantly crop up in Moffat's writing; the genius man-child who gets to behave however he wants while only suffering the most minor of consequences (the Doctor, Sherlock Holmes, Henry Jekyll, a gender-flipped version in Agatha van Helsing like we wouldn't notice), the effeminate queer-coded man who's at best a target for homophobic jokes and at worst implied to be/literally a predator (Mycroft Holmes, Jim Moriarty, Count Dracula), the Strong Woman who's also somehow entirely in thrall to the Genius Man-Child (River Song, Eurus Holmes, Amy Pond, most unforgivably Irene Adler). His stories are thinly-veiled wish fulfilment about a tousle-haired, universally-beloved hero with a {dark side}.
Honestly, anything I could say about Moffat has been said before and better by hbomberguy in his peerless character assassination video essay on Sherlock.
It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.
every time I fumble w my phone’s charger cable I think about emailing steven moffat a pipe bomb
It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.