Moffat also seems bent on retconning a lot of things to make them "his."
Case in point, the recycled plots and dialogue. He's redoing things that others did before him - and - better - to claim them as his own. (at least that's how it appears). I know we discussed this last year, too, as it seemed the man was bent on systematically dismantling years' worth of story foundation and rebuilding it to the image he decided it needed to favor.
Clara was the biggest instance of this. By making her "The Impossible Girl," and sending her into the Doctor's time stream to fracture into a million versions of herself who only existed to save the Doctor over and over (yet with no memory of him and with the handicap of having to grow up over and over...), Moffat essentially undercut every single plot line ever written for the show from its inception.
No longer was the Doctor the hero of his own story. A human companion was manipulating him to make specific choices, or rushing in to save him at the last moment. She became the ultimate dues ex machina.
And yet, having seen him regenerate into every face he ever had (including the War Doctor, because she saw that incarnation when Eleven came to get her), she suddenly can't wrap her head around the idea of him regenerating into someone so different from Eleven.
Unless there's a legitimate plot-related reason for that (such as she's forgotten her time in the time stream, or the Doctor isn't the Doctor, so she doesn't recognize him, etc) it's a sloppy script convenience. Clara shouldn't have blinked when Eleven became Twelve - especially after begging the people she believed to be Galifreyans to save him.
Case in point, the recycled plots and dialogue. He's redoing things that others did before him - and - better - to claim them as his own. (at least that's how it appears). I know we discussed this last year, too, as it seemed the man was bent on systematically dismantling years' worth of story foundation and rebuilding it to the image he decided it needed to favor.
Clara was the biggest instance of this. By making her "The Impossible Girl," and sending her into the Doctor's time stream to fracture into a million versions of herself who only existed to save the Doctor over and over (yet with no memory of him and with the handicap of having to grow up over and over...), Moffat essentially undercut every single plot line ever written for the show from its inception.
No longer was the Doctor the hero of his own story. A human companion was manipulating him to make specific choices, or rushing in to save him at the last moment. She became the ultimate dues ex machina.
And yet, having seen him regenerate into every face he ever had (including the War Doctor, because she saw that incarnation when Eleven came to get her), she suddenly can't wrap her head around the idea of him regenerating into someone so different from Eleven.
Unless there's a legitimate plot-related reason for that (such as she's forgotten her time in the time stream, or the Doctor isn't the Doctor, so she doesn't recognize him, etc) it's a sloppy script convenience. Clara shouldn't have blinked when Eleven became Twelve - especially after begging the people she believed to be Galifreyans to save him.
