Doctor Who – The 13th Doctor – S11E08 The Witchfinder
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21st January 2023 @ 4:37 pm
While I was still able to enjoy the Chibnall era, I must agree his writing style has a lot of room of improvement. At some point I noticed that it was written like it was supposed to be an audio drama instead of a tv show. Everything is so heavy handed and over explained in a way like they don’t expect us to see the screen. In the end I just turned my brain off and had fun with it. It still had enough Doctor Who feels for me to enjoy it.
I’m still amazed by the fact that Chibnall wrote Broadchurch, a show that blew me away, and then managed to mess up so bad with Doctor Who.
2nd February 2023 @ 1:16 pm
comparing it to an audio drama makes SO MUCH SENSE! I mean, it of course doesn’t explain why, which is really the big question, but yes, they are absolutely overexplaining it as if you weren’t watching the TV.
The fact that Chibnall wrote Broadchurch (yep, we also loved it!!) and then did this to Doctor Who is really just more evidence to my complete lack of research into the subject, where quite often you find out that a piece of TV you were super unimpressed by was written by someone who also wrote a piece of TV that was *amazing*, and therefore I wonder how much these things come down to a person being a fantastic writer, and a subpar showrunner/manager, and the other way around. Maybe you are amazing at coming up with the broad strokes of a story and the world, but then you hire other people to do the beat by beat, and you’re good at hiring the correct people to bring your vision to life. Or the other way around, maybe your imagination is amazing, but you can’t write every episode yourself, and you suck at hiring and keeping writers on track, and instead just let them do what they want to do, and it all gets a bit messy.. as I said, I have dont absolutely no actual looking into this, it’s just a vague theory at the back of my mind every time something like this happens.. hmmmm
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