Howling:Paraphasing Moffat: Maybe I'll come back to that

Certainly hope this isn't against the rules, but hoping isn't going to stop me.

Is anybody else noticing/highly fed-up with, an apparent trend of Moffat's to just throw crap into the script with no definite intention of following it up?

Season 5 was (IMO) the best season of New Who, and AotD was (IMO) the best episode of New Who... but most of S6 and too much (so far) of S7 just leaves me angry and ashamed.

Doctor Who is not Lost. The mysteries and plot threads were fun, but now we've hit a point where it seems obvious that big plot threads are going to be left permanently hanging. Who piloted the Tardis out-from-under River, to Amy's wedding night? How did the Silence get to Earth, what was their original motivation? What links the Church and the Monks (who live in the 5,000s, right?) to this invasion by the Silence (which may stretch back to prehistory)? How did the Doctor get his sonic back from the Ganger Doctor? Big threads and small threads are being abandoned at such a rate that it's basically front-and-center to myself and all my fellow Who fans in real life.

Some of us are about to stop watching Who altogether... and I've been a fan for some 25 years. We've come to the conclusion that The Moff is peeved off at the audience and punishing us (not going to go into specifics, because it'll start a flame war... let's say, in addition to the popular points of finger-wagging in certain unpopular episodes, certain popular episodes have also rubbed us horribly wrong.) And there are also some just mind-crushingly obvious mistakes, like: if the Angels were repeatedly zapping people back to a time they had already been to when they tried to escape, then how is there any empty space left in the whole of Manhattan? It would be filled with thousands of copies of each person there.)

I'm not going to reply to any specific corrections or theories that were formulated off screen to explain these glaring omissions. I'm just asking: how common/rare is it for a Whovian, these days, to be impatient to the point of quitting their fandom over this? Agonaga ☎  14:37, October 12, 2012 (UTC)