Watched the season opener.
Moffat continues his writing style of coming up with single sentence cool ideas and then that's it that's what he thinks storytelling is. I can just see his first draft being literally:
*Band mines? Like music starts playing and you have to run because there are band mines No, Hand mines. Like hands come up and grab you and then you blow up.
*REMEMBER: Remember to kill some people for the jerks that say that my stories don't have stakes or consequences.
*A guy is not actually a guy he's just snakes
*All the planes in the air just stop!
*It's the middle ages, but there's a tank.
*Peter can play the guitar, use that.
*"The Doctor is supes going to die" might be a cool line because then people will be hooked.
And then he looks at what he wrote and thinks he has a story there.
Is thinking positively about the low chances you have of survival the actual way to deal with the hand mines?
Why did Missy bother with the planes when just contacting UNIT and saying hi got the Clara meeting she wanted.
Clara walking dramatically towards Missy while Mission Impossible music plays in the background doesn't make your stupid pile of nothing into a cool character.
Why is Moffat's solution to nobody ever dying in his stories to kill characters he introduced two seconds ago. And by "characters" and "introduced" I mean there was some dude in the background for a moment there before Missy blew him up. Remember in last year's finale when the Doctor got on the plane and then that one guy got ripped out the window. The fandom is still super upset about the death. Those 2 million viewers the show lost were all people who were upset that guy didn't come back.
Also why did you bother with snipers if Missy just randomly killing people is not enough of a reason to shoot her.
"The Doctor's final day" doesn't mean anything when he has those twice a day.
When the Daleks are looking for the Doctor, how did he stay hidden for weeks with his friend, the secret Dalek?
Our hero The Doctor, at the end of his life, decides to take a tank into the middle ages for no reason, therefore likely fucking with the timeline in all sorts of horrible ways? Tennant decided to screw with time some more because he felt invincible and realized 15 seconds later that it was a bad idea. And I still have a hard time forgetting Father's Day, where saving one guy was a big no-no, and doing it anyway caused dragons to eat everybody.
And then the Doctor is a prisoner and without his Tardis, but somehow got to time travel again to go and kill young Davros. This would be a fine mystery if I had any faith in it not being the Pandorica loop again.
