Agreed. The story he tells, it really wants to be a 6-10 episode, highly serialized drama season. But it can't be. And I think TIA/DotM in particular seemed to promise that we would be getting something a lot more developed than what we got (the tone of those episodes is so different--subtler, more mysterious, more obviously adult, with lots of substantial character moments and dangling mysteries). And the rest of the season just could not deliver on that promise. I find myself wishing again that Moff could have begun at least this season if not his entire run in the fantastical, baroque fairy-tale form we ended up with, so that we wouldn't have been expecting the rest of whatever show might have followed on from TIA/DotM.
Anyway, I get why we got what we did (mostly), and I can respect the ambition of it. But it's still frustrating. It's a flawed season, and I think River, Amy, and Rory took it square in the characterization. Which is when it becomes hard to be forgiving.
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Agreed. The story he tells, it really wants to be a 6-10 episode, highly serialized drama season. But it can't be. And I think TIA/DotM in particular seemed to promise that we would be getting something a lot more developed than what we got (the tone of those episodes is so different--subtler, more mysterious, more obviously adult, with lots of substantial character moments and dangling mysteries). And the rest of the season just could not deliver on that promise. I find myself wishing again that Moff could have begun at least this season if not his entire run in the fantastical, baroque fairy-tale form we ended up with, so that we wouldn't have been expecting the rest of whatever show might have followed on from TIA/DotM.
Anyway, I get why we got what we did (mostly), and I can respect the ambition of it. But it's still frustrating. It's a flawed season, and I think River, Amy, and Rory took it square in the characterization. Which is when it becomes hard to be forgiving.