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Post by ollychops on Sept 14, 2024 17:07:48 GMT
The “Moffat can’t write women” criticism is funny because… of course he can write women because he has, if people were being realistic, the criticism would be “Moffat doesn’t write women the way I want them to be written”. Also whilst people use the obvious examples against him (River, Tasha Lem, Irene Adler), they just conveniently ignore the examples that don’t fit the mold like Nancy, Reinette, Sally Sparrow, Miss Evangelista, Lorna Bucket, Liz 10, Lynda Day, etc.
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Post by relativetime on Sept 14, 2024 19:59:17 GMT
The whole "Moffat can't write women" criticism really feels so disingenuous to me. I don't deny that he has his problems as a writer, but the criticism is almost always coming from the angle of "here's why RTD is the best showrunner" and hardly ever a "here's where Moffat's faults are" angle.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 14, 2024 23:52:50 GMT
The whole "Moffat can't write women" criticism really feels so disingenuous to me. I don't deny that he has his problems as a writer, but the criticism is almost always coming from the angle of "here's why RTD is the best showrunner" and hardly ever a "here's where Moffat's faults are" angle. It was criticism of his tenure as showrunner. Mysteriously, nobody seemed to have an issue when he was just writing episodes under RTD. |
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Post by sherlock on Sept 18, 2024 8:43:48 GMT
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Post by ollychops on Sept 18, 2024 11:54:17 GMT
The whole "Moffat can't write women" criticism really feels so disingenuous to me. I don't deny that he has his problems as a writer, but the criticism is almost always coming from the angle of "here's why RTD is the best showrunner" and hardly ever a "here's where Moffat's faults are" angle. Yeah, it always felt like something that people who couldn’t get over losing RTD and Tennant said to justify hating on Moffat and then it’s like it became accepted as the truth. Moffat has his faults, sure, and some of his female characters are similar but to say that he can’t write women at all or all of his female characters are the same is nonsense IMO. |
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Post by bethhigdon on Oct 9, 2024 4:25:56 GMT
The whole "Moffat can't write women" criticism really feels so disingenuous to me. I don't deny that he has his problems as a writer, but the criticism is almost always coming from the angle of "here's why RTD is the best showrunner" and hardly ever a "here's where Moffat's faults are" angle. Yeah, it always felt like something that people who couldn’t get over losing RTD and Tennant said to justify hating on Moffat and then it’s like it became accepted as the truth. Moffat has his faults, sure, and some of his female characters are similar but to say that he can’t write women at all or all of his female characters are the same is nonsense IMO. I started with Moffat and I still vehemently hate the way he writes women. I hated it then and I hate it now. It's not just 'oh I miss RTD' as I wasn't there to miss RTD. I legit have major issues with his over reliance of stock characters and his extremely small pool of tropes that he draws from for his women, and yes I include more popular ones like Sally and Reinette in that criticism. |
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Post by bethhigdon on Oct 9, 2024 4:27:57 GMT
The whole "Moffat can't write women" criticism really feels so disingenuous to me. I don't deny that he has his problems as a writer, but the criticism is almost always coming from the angle of "here's why RTD is the best showrunner" and hardly ever a "here's where Moffat's faults are" angle. It was criticism of his tenure as showrunner. Mysteriously, nobody seemed to have an issue when he was just writing episodes under RTD. I did.
I hate Girl in the Fireplace.
I think it's Ten's worst episode.
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Post by timleschild on Oct 9, 2024 9:56:26 GMT
The whole "Moffat can't write women" criticism really feels so disingenuous to me. I don't deny that he has his problems as a writer, but the criticism is almost always coming from the angle of "here's why RTD is the best showrunner" and hardly ever a "here's where Moffat's faults are" angle. Yeah, it always felt like something that people who couldn’t get over losing RTD and Tennant said to justify hating on Moffat and then it’s like it became accepted as the truth. Moffat has his faults, sure, and some of his female characters are similar but to say that he can’t write women at all or all of his female characters are the same is nonsense IMO. I was more than happy to see the back of RTD & Tennant. |
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Post by shutupbanks on Oct 9, 2024 10:49:18 GMT
It was criticism of his tenure as showrunner. Mysteriously, nobody seemed to have an issue when he was just writing episodes under RTD. I did.
I hate Girl in the Fireplace.
I think it's Ten's worst episode.
Last Of The Timelords is right there 😂 |
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Post by bethhigdon on Oct 9, 2024 15:25:28 GMT
I did.
I hate Girl in the Fireplace.
I think it's Ten's worst episode.
Last Of The Timelords is right there 😂 And it's nowhere near as offensive as GitF |
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