It’s practically assault. She slams him back against the wall and goes on and on.
– Steven Moffat’s stage directions for the Twelfth Doctor/Missy kiss in Death in Heaven, according to Doctor Who Magazine.
I guess he knows what he’s doing with the sexual assault stuff, then. That’s worrying. I don’t think people will be able to excuse this anymore.
(via violethuntress)
‘Sherlock’ Star Benedict Cumberbatch: Show’s Last Season ‘Really Freudian’ : NPR
‘Sherlock’ Star Benedict Cumberbatch: Show’s Last Season ‘Really Freudian’ : NPR
Cumberbatch suspected those storylines came from conversations early in the first season’s production with one of the show’s producers, Steven Moffat.
“Immediately as an actor I wanted to understand who [Sherlock] was, what his parents were,” he adds. “These were questions I asked … I wanted to understand. [Moffat] was just talking about, ‘Can’t this guy just be good at what he does and he’s your age and he looks like you and he’s doing his thing?’
And I went, ‘No, no Steven, there’s a process I’ve got to go through. I’ve got to understand how I became this person.’ ”
He didn’t necessarily expect those answers to be revealed to viewers, Cumberbatch points out now. “I can’t just sort of float onto set with a whole bunch of mannerisms and hope it sort of comes off,” he says. “You have to ground it in some sort of reality, otherwise you get found out as things sort of evolve.”
One other thing Cumberbatch insisted on was creating a weakness for Sherlock — his inability to connect with people — another idea Moffatt resisted.
“And [Moffat] said, ‘But can’t he just be really good? Can’t he just be good at it? Why does he have to have flaw or an Achilles heel?’” the actor says.
“Because I said, you know, ‘Where’s his weakness?’ Because no human being doesn’t [have one]. And however much [Sherlock] tries to convince himself he’s not human, he is.”
Umm its explicitly stated that the Doctor is supposed to die on Trenzalore but doesn’t anyway. Clara breaks the rules. She changed history. It’s not a plot hole, it’s part of the plot. The point wasn’t fixed and Clara changed the future
Go look at my last response.
I don’t see how it works.
It’s clearly stated you can’t change events you’re part of. If the Doctor doesn’t die on Trenzalore, NotD can’t happen and Clara can’t jump into the Time Stream.
If Clara doesn’t jump in the Time Stream, the Doctor can’t meet Oswin or Clara Oswin, inspiring him to look for the real Clara, nulling of series 7 part 2. (I’m not even going to get into the long term effects of this, such as Clara never being there to save the Doctor a billion times and him thus dying on several occasions).
BUT WAIT, THERES MORE.
Clara’s crying is what inspired the Doctor to save Gallifrey. If she isn’t with him, he doesn’t save Gallifrey, he destroys it with War and Ten.
If he doesn’t save Gallifrey, there’s no “oldest question in the universe”, and therefor the Church of the Silence is never created.
If the Church is never created, the plot of series 6 never happens and River Song as we know her CANT exist.
Also, it the Church isn’t created, Kovarian can’t blow up the TARDIS. Therefor the plot of series 5 as we know it doesn’t happen.
Literally everything from Eleventh Hour on is impossible and a paradox if the Doctor does not die on Trenzalore.
So the future writers can just do something to say Clara just never met the Doctor or something, and all of Moffat’s era implodes upon itself?
I think this revelation will go down in anti-Moffat history.
They can either get rid of Clara, or get rid of Missy (who’s heavily implied to have been the reason modern Clara called the Doctor in the first place, thus beginning the chain of events that would lead to everything else). If they get rid of Missy, we could have Jenna Coleman making cameos in the future, as regular Clara.
Hopefully the next shorunner will see this and do something to spark this chain of undoing events.
Haha my “if I was showrunner” masterplan incorporates this into a multi-season arc, so I’ve thought about this a lot. (Yeah I daydream about how I would save Doctor Who I’m a nerd w/e)
the-wolf-in-the-police-box for next showrunner.
My “era” would literally be obscure classic who references, Rose, Donna and Martha shout outs, bad puns, and thinly disguised shade-throwing at Moffat. Oh and everyone would be hella gay.
So like, I think I’d be the best showrunner in the show’s history nbd
Wow that’s mind blowing. @_@. Interesting and hopefully not dumb question though, How would that effect 12 and how would that effect 11 personality and story wise?
Idk the whole situations just a big ol fuck up at this point.
I mean, realistically Twelve wouldn’t exist, because there would be no Gallifrey to give out regenerations to save the Doctor. But if there’s no Gallifrey to save the Doctor, he dies on Trenzalore and everything is put back into place.
It’s all just a mess because Moffat can’t keep track of his own writing.
Just ignore Moffat’s random War Doctor addition and Twelve can exist, because then you wouldn’t be going over the limit.
Or if you really want to, just say the War Doctor is an older version of Eight, or whatever. I honestly like that better than The Night of the Doctor explanation for the War Doctor.
I always put the Clara ‘echoes’ down to a causal loop that cancelled out meaning that in established history there are none. They were just a possible timeline, that the Doctor can pick up on more than others due to his close proximity to Clara, and what she remembers doing.
I like the idea of taking every woman joke from the last season, and turning them into Moffat jokes.
Dear STFU-Moffat and associates,
From now on, I insist you describe Steven Moffat as “Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat.” Just to make sure you’re being fair.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat is a queerbaiting hack
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat’s writing features sexism and overly complicated plots that don’t really make any sense.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat has characters needlessly tell the viewer information that he should be showing them.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat is incapable of creating real emotional stakes in his stories.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat calls teenage mother a ‘slut’ in DVD commentary
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat says bisexuals are too busy having sex to watch television, and therefore don’t need representing.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat thinks asexuals are too boring to write about.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat thinks that rather than having a female Doctor, it’s about time a man played the Queen despite the fact that men had all the roles of any kind for over 400 years.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat hasn’t had a woman writer for doctor who since Russell T. Davies
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat won an award from an entertainment industry that is to its bones highly racist, sexist, homophobic, amongst a host of other things, including being extremely resistant to change, and as a result, Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat is rewarded for being less than mediocre, incomprehensible, and offensive as fuck.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat encourages and participates in rape culture by blaming women when men ogle them and making light of sexual assault.
Emmy-award winning writer Steven Moffat uses every Orientalist trope under the sun and constantly dehumanises, shames and dismisses women of colour.