Doctor Who - farewell, RTD...

[mrph]

So, RTD is leaving. Steven Moffat will be the new executive producer...

...and pretty much everyone on LJ seems to think this is a good thing. I'm not disagreeing - but just what do you want to see from Moffat's first season? Time for a quick survey, I think...

• Will he be able to keep the ratings as well as the critical acclaim? I mean, we seem to like his stories - and, by extension, he'll probably take the series in some interesting directions - but will the Saturday evening audience agree?

• What/who should he change or ditch completely?
  

• What/who should be bring back from seasons 1-4 of the new series?

• What/who should he bring back from the old series - and why?

• What general guidelines should he always remember?

Comments

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

NO MAGIC WANDS.

Sonic Screwdriver and Psychic paper are convenient blags for the doctor to shortcut into where he needs to be, for the plot. They're ok, as long as that's all they do.

Whilst a sonic screwdriver as a high-tech lockpick is fine, a sonic screwdriver as a 'deus ex machina' magic wand, is NOT. No zappys. No boomys. No zoomys. JUST LOCKPICK. Or bin it, like they did first time they realised they were getting lazy plot resolutions because of it.

Epic armys of monsters are not necessary. World shaking plot is not necessary. Hints that 'bad thing will destroy earth' are entirely fine, and having a small bunch of named character bad guys is far far preferable to 6 billion Toklaphane or however it's spelt.

Oh, and more backplot about the timewar. That would rock.
Less mooning over Rose. Actually, less 'being a schoolboy' in general. The Doctor is old, a badass, has been, seen, done things. Hints from backplot, and general canon, have him as possibly one of the most singularly devastating characters ... well at all actually. He's NOT going to be getting all hormonal over an immature, mentally inferior human.

More master, when he's not being a hopeless tosser, doing the 'I win the game' jig, and being comic relief. Sod it, Derek Jacobi was FANTASTIC as the master. More of that would be cool. (Although, that does set a precedent about timelines and stuff, but ... what if they tell the story of what made the master hide away at the end of time)

[evilruss.livejournal.com]

My god! I agree with you on every point.
Brilliant.

At last. Someone who has my sort of opinions about Doctor Who. Tell on.