{"id":129541,"date":"2016-01-23T05:54:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/doctor-who-fans-wont-have-steven-moffat-to-kick-around-any-more.html"},"modified":"2016-02-08T22:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T05:21:33","slug":"doctor-who-fans-wont-have-steven-moffat-to-kick-around-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/doctor-who-fans-wont-have-steven-moffat-to-kick-around-any-more.html","title":{"rendered":""Doctor Who" fans won't have Steven Moffat to kick around any more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, at least after 2017.<\/p>\n

So two bits of news here:<\/p>\n

1. The next series of Doctor Who<\/i> doesn't come until … Spring of 2017? Really? Jeez, Brits, what's going on over on that side of the pond? That sounds like an even more extreme loss of momentum than in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

2. That series will be Moffat's last hurrah, with him then being replaced (in 2018?) with Chris Chibnall, the showrunner for Broadchurch.<\/i><\/p>\n

I don't know a lot about Chibnall (but I'm sure I'll be learning some real soon now). But it does seem time for Moffat to let go of the reins. I've always felt he was a better episode writer than showrunner — indeed, one of this problems (to my mind, and I'm more than willing to admit this is just my opinion) is that he's tended to run seasons as though they were extended episodes, layering on mystery within mystery within mystery to the extent that the "fun" factor is overwhelmed by portentous continuity and surprise reveals. It's been too much of a good thing, in many ways.<\/p>\n

(I would level the same charge at Moffat for recent instances of Sherlock.<\/i> The irony is that my wife and I are rewatching his series, Coupling,<\/i> which is fun and charming and much<\/i> more manageable and enjoyable in what arc-ness it has.)<\/p>\n

So, interesting news, but difficult to work up much enthusiasm, given that we're over a year away from that final Moffat season, and his replacement probably coming up a year after that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA host of Doctor Who news was announced Friday, including Steven Moffat stepping down as […]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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