Well, what's particularly interesting here is that my opinion of this one doesn't really have anything to do with my general Moffat opinions. All the things about him that irritate me... are mostly not present here.
I disliked this episode because I thought the writing was basically crap, and the pacing was worse, and if you'd asked me three weeks ago, I would have said pacing was one of Moffat's gifts. (Continuity, no; pacing, yes.) And I mean, his plots have never been very tight, but usually I don't start to notice the holes until the second time through. These two episodes? I kept getting distracted by them.
(And I think I shall take this moment to register my opinion that Ten gets a bad rap for the Angst. ie, his last few episodes were full of it, but I think it was because of the *content of those episodes*, not a personal problem, as it were. Ten was usually pretty happy when he wasn't getting kicked in the face.)
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Date: 2010-04-12 01:46 am (UTC)I disliked this episode because I thought the writing was basically crap, and the pacing was worse, and if you'd asked me three weeks ago, I would have said pacing was one of Moffat's gifts. (Continuity, no; pacing, yes.) And I mean, his plots have never been very tight, but usually I don't start to notice the holes until the second time through. These two episodes? I kept getting distracted by them.
(And I think I shall take this moment to register my opinion that Ten gets a bad rap for the Angst. ie, his last few episodes were full of it, but I think it was because of the *content of those episodes*, not a personal problem, as it were. Ten was usually pretty happy when he wasn't getting kicked in the face.)