I couldn't agree more, mickrog. I think, for me, the problem is not so much the quality of the scripts (which is pretty bad) but it's that Matt Smith is just awful! He suffers dreadfully in comparison with David Tennant, without doubt my favourite doctor.
It's very strange, micmak. Stephen Moffat is one of my favourite TV script writers. I maintain that "Coupling" was one of the best-written British sit-coms of all time, and that the episodes of Dr Who he wrote with RTD was still head writer were the best of that era, "The Empty Child" and "Blink" in particular...
The script this week was by multi-award winning author Neil Gaiman - a man who in a short sequence in one of his "Sandman" issues "threw away" (a writer is given an "idea overload" by a Muse and starts spouting out ideas for stories) better ideas than most writers have in their lifetimes.
Matt Smith is great - a "proper" Doctor (not to denigrate DT's interpretation, which certainly propelled the show into the mass consciousness). I think the current complaints about the show are because it is now "uncut" pure Doctor Who, whereas RTD made sure that he kept the "casual" viewers onside.
I think that it would have been very difficult for any new actor taking on the role of the Doctor after David Tennant - he really was one of the best, along with John Pertwee. Imagine how much more Matt Smith would be liked if he'd come after Sylvester McCoy!
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