6 out of 10. Strong performances from the leads, but writing dreadful, direction worse and pacing all over the place. Plot holes made worse by the aforementioned pacing issue. A romp is fine. A ropey romp is not.
Basically, it looks like Moff farms out all the mid-series stories he thinks he should include but has no great interest in writing or editing to people he gets on really well with in real life, rushing the script edit and spending less money, with dodgy results. See also: RTD, who was prone to this too. Thompson, Chibnall, two Gatiss episodes so far, everything by Helen Raynor, Fear Her (Graham may pull it out of the bag with his two-parter this time). Some of these writers do very well outside the Whoniverse, but Steve Thompson wrote the rubbish episode of Sherlock, too, which indicates either he should stick to the stage or stay well away from Moff's franchises.
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Date: 2011-05-11 09:08 am (UTC)Basically, it looks like Moff farms out all the mid-series stories he thinks he should include but has no great interest in writing or editing to people he gets on really well with in real life, rushing the script edit and spending less money, with dodgy results. See also: RTD, who was prone to this too. Thompson, Chibnall, two Gatiss episodes so far, everything by Helen Raynor, Fear Her (Graham may pull it out of the bag with his two-parter this time). Some of these writers do very well outside the Whoniverse, but Steve Thompson wrote the rubbish episode of Sherlock, too, which indicates either he should stick to the stage or stay well away from Moff's franchises.