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

 

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't. Moffat never understood the Doc's personality and so made him a sociopath, a clown, a stupid idiot who only cared about himself, and a hyperactive child, gone was the scientist who seemed to be learning from his mistakes.

Among other of his many damages to the entire franchise in eight years (and only six seasons, usually split up and in one year only one story): a shallow, sex minded female in every story, usually Amy but also the unreal River, the boring unfunny Padernostra gang, making fun of the Sontarans and the Daleks, diluting their menace (no, the Doc would not play dodgems nor use a donut to "bluff" them, gimmicks that never pan out, the Doc leaving at least three women that he's already married, and unexplained phenomena that he just...forgot about, every major character dying and returning to life as well as the TARDIS and the entire universe, a lack of family that felt real as in RTD's first round (but NOT his second), unfunny slapstick and puns (while admittedly, like the episodes themselves and the seasons, every now and again, a few were worthwhile), aliens that felt gimmicky rather than creative, a jealous stalker Doctor, a cranky uneducated old man who advertised his alien-ness, an insulting Doctor who needed cue cards to treat people nice (I ask you, is that the being who lived 2000 years and learns while he goes?). ..

...and much, much more, almost criminal the destruction he gave to the series. Season 10 was a bit better but Moffat had less involvement there.

Season 11 was a recovery season and felt fresh and wonderful with only two bad stories (the spiders and the Ghost Monument, which needed more action and pace and tension instead of a slow walk up a hill to the TARDIS--and compare to AN UNEARTHLY CHILD part four with frantic run for survival back to the TARDIS).

Season 12 \'s first half was atrocious (James Bond indeed!) but the second half was okay but Chibs now taken over, he gave us Doctors before the First Doctor, which in and of itself is a tricky kind of story to do and CAN work, if shrouded in mystery. While some of it approaches that, the execution is mostly poor and boring. In addition, we've had the "I love Gallifrey so much...." DID The Classic Doctor really love Gallifrey? ...."I must FIND IT!" No, no, and no.

Then the FUX season (and no, I did not mispell it) which was illogical, silly, and boring all at the same time. And Chibs had maybe three more specials or something? The sea devils one was okay but praises a serial killer female who killed off whole towns for money, including children and old people.

The finale was equally off with some kind of snake man (Mara?) AND Tegan causing all the trouble (the id E Ot) thinks the Doc would send her a toy Cyberman, which then went on to cause the death of many. UNIT> An AA meeting for companions as to why the Doc ruined their lives.

And of all the unrealistic "romance" between Yaz and the 13th Doctor, 13 kicking her out when she is regenerating alone and Yaz actually going to attend the meeting, away from the Doc who is HER LOVE (?) and who is dying, does NOT ring true at all. In fact, since 2008's MIDNIGHT's ending, almost 90 percent of the show did not ring true or have deeper meaning, much as we like to think that Capaldi's Doc dying 1000 times to remember or save Clara might. It doesn't.

Much of it felt like gimmicks and tricks and dead end alleys just to have some kind of cliffhanger.

All of Moffat and some of Chibs affected RTD as much as his failure in the US with his awful Torchwood and then there was the sad death of his long time partner. Maybe no one else wanted DW after the failings of both Moffat (quality wise) and Chibs (less quality wise and more ratings wise). IDK.

But I do know that Moffat, then Chibs, and now RTD2 with his second coming, have 99 percent ruined almost ALL DW for me. Turns out you can retroactively make someone loathe an entire franchise. Which makes sense.

DW always was one long and exciting story (until about Journey's End) with side alleys (the audios, the comics, the novels and short stories) about the SAME character in adventures in time and space. You want to know while watching, say THE KEYS OF MARINUS where the Doc's story will go.

Well, to say it ends with snot monsters, shit driven space stations, and now Euro Contests in Space and cartoon characters is a sad feeling and sad commentary on how this show fell into the wrong hands and is mismanaged and has been since 2009/2010. Shame on fan boys. time for non fans boys to get a go, IF anyone else with any kind of management talent to hire good sci fi writers and TV writers will go near this damaged, troubled, and boring show.