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WHO is to blame for WHO's current damaged state?

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  RTD is to blame, sole. On the other hand, you can retroactively look back to 2009 and maybe the last "story" in 2008 to see he had writer burn out, DW burn out, writer block, and more. His last two episodes, Stolen Earth and Journey's End, were awful, dopey, stupid and lacked the character beats and logic that made most of his era work, 90 percent of the time or more. DOOMSDAY is one of the best DW stories, and so is MIDNIGHT and under his era Moffat wrote the best stories. Which leads me to also TOTALLY BLAME Moffat for the current state of DW. Once he came in, the tone became "it's just DW" --a phrase that RTD has used on at least two occasions in the past two years (and while mentioning the angels are WASTED being in "just" DW). Moffat diluted the companion role and the sexuality of the Doctor, symbolically almost castrating the Doctor in his very first story, the in over his head Matt Smith, who was never convincing when the scripts weren...
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DARK SHADOWS 557

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 DARK SHADOWS  557 “And that man when he dies, he will be a vampire and that will be two of them and no one in this town will be safe.”   “Adam has escaped from jail. He’s also survived a gunshot wound and a leap off Widow’s Hill. He’s killed Sam Evans and he’s nearly killed Joe Haskell.”   “Victoria Winters is loved by Barnabas and he will give me a mate because he is afraid of what will happen to her.”   Grayson. It is still 24 hours after Vicki was abducted. Is Collinsport in a time warp? Nah, it’s just the same night and day and now it’s over.     Jeff and the police are searching…but fail to see either Adam or Blair (sometimes carrying Vicki or her ring) in the woods. No reprise.   Barnabas calls Adam back and Adam comes back.   One of them says, “Just stink.”   Adam makes the threat again, “You will never see her alive again…” blah blah blah.   Julia comes back to Barnabas and she notes that he’...
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