Strictly speaking, 'A Good Man Goes To War' is not a season finale - we're only half way through Season 6 - but as the press ( and 'The Radio Times' ) are treating it as such, I shall follow suit.
Moffat's fanboys would have us believe that under R.T.D., 'Dr.Who' was a lot of childish rot about farting aliens and pigs in space-suits, while under their hero it has become an intelligent, adult show with sophisticated plots. I do not agree. Davies took the show kicking and screaming into the 21st century, whereas his successor has dragged it back to the mid-to-late 1980's, a time when boring, complicated stories were commonplace. 'The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon' would not have looked out of place beside 'Paradise Towers' and 'Delta & The Bannermen'. Moffat wrote some cracking episodes in the R.T.D. era, such as 'The Girl In The Fireplace' and 'Blink', but since assuming overall responsibility for the show the quality of his writing has plummeted. 'War' was self-indulgent, fan fiction twaddle. How anyone can praise it is beyond me. It had no discernible plot as such, just disconnected ideas with nothing to properly link them. When the Cybermen appeared, I thought "Great! We're going to see some action!" but then - they were gone! Did my eyes deceive me or was there really a Silurian living in a Victorian house with a maid? They were still in suspended animation in Derbyshire at that time, for heavens sake! How did the Spitfires get far enough out into space to attack Demons Run? Sontaran nurses? The Cybermen giving Rory information? Come on!
Moffat has responded to critics by arrogantly telling them to 'pay attention'. Well, I have, and am still confused. Try writing some coherent plots, mate. The basic idea was identical to 'Operation Wurlitzer', a story from 'T.V. Comic' first published in 1969. I was also strongly reminded of the hodge-podge climax of the 1967 comedy version of 'Casino Royale' - 007 ( David Niven ) is fighting SMERSH agents in the casino when suddenly, the Keystone Kops show up, closely followed by cowboys and Indians and a pair of seals! It made slightly more sense than Moffat's yarn. Just when you thought it could not get more stupid, up popped headless monks armed with what looked like 'Star Wars' light sabres!
So the truth about River Song is now revealed. Thank goodness for that. Now please get rid of her and move on. She, like the Daleks, has been massively overused.
The one saving grace was Frances Barber's 'Madame Kovarian'. She deserved a better script than this.
I see the next episode is to be titled 'Let's Kill Hitler'. I think it should be called 'Let's Ditch Moffat'!
Moffat's fanboys would have us believe that under R.T.D., 'Dr.Who' was a lot of childish rot about farting aliens and pigs in space-suits, while under their hero it has become an intelligent, adult show with sophisticated plots. I do not agree. Davies took the show kicking and screaming into the 21st century, whereas his successor has dragged it back to the mid-to-late 1980's, a time when boring, complicated stories were commonplace. 'The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon' would not have looked out of place beside 'Paradise Towers' and 'Delta & The Bannermen'. Moffat wrote some cracking episodes in the R.T.D. era, such as 'The Girl In The Fireplace' and 'Blink', but since assuming overall responsibility for the show the quality of his writing has plummeted. 'War' was self-indulgent, fan fiction twaddle. How anyone can praise it is beyond me. It had no discernible plot as such, just disconnected ideas with nothing to properly link them. When the Cybermen appeared, I thought "Great! We're going to see some action!" but then - they were gone! Did my eyes deceive me or was there really a Silurian living in a Victorian house with a maid? They were still in suspended animation in Derbyshire at that time, for heavens sake! How did the Spitfires get far enough out into space to attack Demons Run? Sontaran nurses? The Cybermen giving Rory information? Come on!
Moffat has responded to critics by arrogantly telling them to 'pay attention'. Well, I have, and am still confused. Try writing some coherent plots, mate. The basic idea was identical to 'Operation Wurlitzer', a story from 'T.V. Comic' first published in 1969. I was also strongly reminded of the hodge-podge climax of the 1967 comedy version of 'Casino Royale' - 007 ( David Niven ) is fighting SMERSH agents in the casino when suddenly, the Keystone Kops show up, closely followed by cowboys and Indians and a pair of seals! It made slightly more sense than Moffat's yarn. Just when you thought it could not get more stupid, up popped headless monks armed with what looked like 'Star Wars' light sabres!
So the truth about River Song is now revealed. Thank goodness for that. Now please get rid of her and move on. She, like the Daleks, has been massively overused.
The one saving grace was Frances Barber's 'Madame Kovarian'. She deserved a better script than this.
I see the next episode is to be titled 'Let's Kill Hitler'. I think it should be called 'Let's Ditch Moffat'!