He created two of my favourite doctors too. (And a bonus War Doctor) they beautifully mirror each other. An old man in a young man’s body nearing the end of his life, and an old man who acts like a teenager, throwing strops, playing his guitar and coming to terms with the beginning of a new regeneration cycle. I don’t think moffats series are perfect but the overall stories he conceives are intelligent, nuanced and compelling. And, like you said he slays a single episode story like no one else.
2 years ago | 14
Small correction, Moffat did not write Vincent and The Doctor. The only S5 episodes he wrote were Eleventh Hour, Beast Below, Flesh and Stone and Time of Angels, and Pandorica Opens/Big Bang
2 years ago | 73
I love Heaven Sent so much. It goes beyond the parameters of Doctor Who and becomes this deep, dark dwelling almost like a movie.
2 years ago | 50
Class act and a world class writer. Thank you for sharing your stories with us Mr. Moffat
2 years ago | 1
YESSS PREACH 🙌🏻 Moffat is literally a genius, gets so annoying when petty whiners try to nitpick his work or act like it’s actually not that good. Sure he’s not perfect - no one is - so to act like that’s unique to him, while ignoring RTD’s era’s glaring faults (not that I don’t love his writing, too), is just ridiculou
2 years ago | 3
this guy made my childhood with 11's run, 11 is my doctor i grew up watching his run, and it's stuck with me all the way till now, i'm 18, and i love it still, series 5 is a masterpiece of writing, and series 6 had one of the most timey wimey plot lines in dw which i also love, even series 7 holds a special place in my heart, i mean the tardis design is gorgeous, strax, jenny and vestra are highlight side characters and there were so many good emotional moments, it also gave us 11's heart wrenching regeneration which has gone down as my all time favorite regeneration in the show
2 years ago | 2
God he has written so many fantastic stories I’m just surprised that the empty child wasn’t on the top five! Miss Moffat and with RTD coming back I’d love him to write for who again. Even better would the RTD and Moffat co-writing together.
2 years ago | 8
Aww look at young Steven! And thank you for this post! I didn’t know he created Captain Jack too. River is ofc my favorite character in the entire show so I’ve always been grateful to him for her. Wow 20 out of 30.
2 years ago | 2
Agreed. Moffat's grasp of writing time travel is just better than RTD honestly. He's not flawless, nobody is but he is damn good.
2 years ago (edited) | 8
I think Moffat's era had some very high highs and some very low lows, but the highs were really bloody good. Both of his doctors were my favourites, and Series 10 in my opinion is the peak of modern doctor who
2 years ago | 12
He had a hard job and brought two great actors into a role so he will definitely go down as a brilliant writer for doctor who
2 years ago | 1
PREACH. 🙏 I couldn't have put this into words but You did it brilliantly. Thank you. (You Just earned a new subscriber lol
2 years ago | 4
YES. Thank you so much for this. It had to be said and it was put into words in the most beautiful way possible. And he looks really good with a beard.
2 years ago | 2
To me, we saw his highs and lows, as with any writer who has to pump out enough serialized work. I think his highs are under appreciated due to how well documented his lows are. I am somewhat saddened that people didn’t necessarily give the 12th Doctor a fair shake due to those perceptions, as, IMO, the 12th Doctor as a character boils away most of the faults in Moffats writing, leading to some quintessential Doctor Who.
2 years ago | 10
Stewart Seyfried
IT'S TIME FOR SOME STEVEN MOFFAT APPRECIATION!!
The Top five Doctor Who episodes were all written by Moffat. These include, Blink#1 Heaven Sent#2 The Day of the Doctor#3 Vincent and the Doctor#4 and Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead#5.. Obviously everyone has their own personal favourite episodes, but those five are among the best rated episodes of all time. Out of the Top 30 episodes, he literally wrote 20 of them, 8 were written by Russell T Davies, and 2 written by guest writers..
He's responsible for two of the most popular and beloved side characters in the show, River Song, who he introduced in the two-parter Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, and Captain Jack Harkness, who he introduced in the two-parter The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances.
He's also responsible for creating perhaps the most iconic Doctor Who monster, The Weeping Angels, other than the Daleks and Cybermen.
Some of the best episodes during RTD's own era, Blink, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, The Girl in the Fireplace & The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, were all written by Moffat.
He brought back the Eighth Doctor and finally gave him a regeneration in 'The Night of the Doctor', introducing the War Doctor in 'The Day of the Doctor' - His two Doctor's (Eleven & Twelve) will go down as two of the all time greats, casting an unknown Matt Smith after David Tennant was genius, then casting Peter Capaldi, a much older and established actor was even more brilliance, exactly what the show needed at the time. He gave us the first ever multi-Master story AND the origin story of the Cybermen in the exact same episode, in World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls, and he embraced the Time Travel element of Doctor Who.. I could continue adding to list for a while longer if I wanted tbh.
So when people say Moffat wasn't a good writer or his era wasn't good, I genuinely don't know what TF they're talking about. Simply delusional.. I just can't take a person serious when I see a post, article or video saying Moffat wasn't a good writer when he literally wrote 20 of the Top 30 episodes.
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