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While I have to applaud Steven Moffat for his ambition in creating such a complicated time travel plot over 3 years, I can only be disappointed in the overall resolution to the Eleventh Doctor's story arc. Even though you can spend days listing the plot holes, I'd be okay with them if the interactions between the characters actually made much sense or if we were given reason to care about them. River is annoying and Clara is boring. That's not to say it was all bad - the Doctor is a consistently great character and the Amy/Rory arc was satisfying, and watching Tennant, Smith and Hurt's Doctor's play off each other in the 50th Anniversary episode was amazing.
If you didn't spend time drawing diagrams to figure out where exactly in each other's timelines everyone is, you'll be consistently confused from the beginning of Series 6 onwards. If you do spend the time to figure out what's going on, the payoff isn't worth it.
I'd be more likely to applaud his ambition in creating a 3 year time travel plot if it looked like it had actually been designed like that as opposed to taking the collection of disjointed loose ends that accumulated over the years and smushing them together any old how.
This topic is for recommending media, not for random criticism...
I'd rather have some sort of discussion than just people posting the names of things.
Yeah, 11th Doctor was a rip off of the previous one, with added Mr. Fanservice (I won't put the tvtropes page in). However... Capaldi? The most incredible improvisational actor in one of Lukeprog's favourite film's of 2009 "In The Loop" based on the tv show "The Thick Of It" - find lots of him here (warning, lots of swearing) and also watch this. Can't wait.
Nah I liked Eleven a lot, and I don't know how one could call him a copy of the Tenth. They're very different.
Agreed on Capaldi though, he's been a wonderful actor in everything I've seen him in.
The good news is that Moffat seems to have intentionally wrapped up all those story lines in order to start fresh with the new Doctor, and has also promised (unspecified) stylistic changes. I feel like the show was getting stale so I'm interested to see how it changes.