I’ve had a lot of disagreements with Steven Moffat during his time as the Head Writer. He has made moves that I didn’t feel comfortable with (in a bad way) and the mainstream success of Doctor Who and Sherlock has made him overconfident and he seems to believe he’s always right.

However, despite what some so-called “fans” will have you believe, being a 10th Doctor/RTD-era fan doesn’t make you a “squealing Tennant fangirl”, a statement which is wrong in more ways than can fill this comment box, so I’ll move on.

I’ll admit it took me time to get over the regeneration of the Doctor that got me into Doctor Who, but I did and Matt Smith won me round. I grew to really like Amy Pond (though I know others really didn’t and I really don’t like some of Karen’s other acting choices, but that’s away from Doctor Who), though again I disagreed with some of Moffat’s choices for her, but these improved as time went on.

Series 8 really threw me though. OK, a new Doctor is always going to take time to adjust to and I may in Series 9, but it really wasn’t good. Where I had episodes such as “Amy’s Choice” with the Dream Lord and “Vincent And The Doctor” with Vincent Van Gogh as highlights of Matt’s first series, there was nothing of quality in Series 8, though Mummy On The Orient Express and Flat Line came closest.

It wasn’t Doctor Who for me, even Clara felt flatter without the 11th Doctor. It was like her friend had become her Grandad and her rude son at the same time. I was always waiting for something to happen and it didn’t and I’ve decided not to buy the DVD, because I’d be wasting my money on something I don’t want.

During the RTD era, I looked forward to Doctor Who. I couldn’t wait to see where the Doctor and his Companion would go next, who they’d meet and what situation they’d get themselves into. During Moffat’s era, particularly Series 8, I’ve been worried about what’s coming next, fearing disappointment more than anything else.

Finishing this long post (which I know others won’t agree with and that’s OK), I also have to accept that there’s no one waiting in the wings to take over that wouldn’t make the problems worse.

So although I voted “No” in the poll, Steven Moffat has to stay on really, because he may be the lesser of two (or more) evils.

I lost a lot of respect for Moffat after he snubbed Peter, Colin and Sylv from the 50th, I felt that they should have been involved in the story properly (even if it was audio only). I felt it particularly unfair that Tom got to come back and they didn’t (though I very much enjoyed Tom’s scene). There wasn’t a lot of love on show for the 80’s era during the 50th, and as that was the era I watched that made me a fan it was very disappointing.

I don’t agree with the gender change of the Master, it just doesn’t seem like a choice the Master would embrace to me. Furthermore, Missy just isn’t recognisably the Master, in my opinion, just the usual template Moffat villainess.

So I would like to see him go, but like Clara, it seems he has no intention of going, which is a shame as I’m finding my enjoyment of the show soured by a growing dislike of Moffat and his decisions.

I am a fan of Moff, but his time is past. He just leaves to much holes in his writing (and admits it and says it is up to the fans to fix the problem)and inconstancy in what he lets go on in the show. Every dog has his day and Moff ha his, time for someone with more progressive ideas for Who.

I’m generally more of a fan of Moffat than RTD, and I thought season 8 was one of the best.
But even I think Moffat is outstaying his welcome a bit. I am looking forward to the future when everything turns into “bring back Moffat!” Down with *insert new show runner here*. :) How quickly people forget the RTD hate when he was still producing the show.

Still, I guess I’m comfortable with the devil I know. Who knows what the future will bring?

I thought my problem with seasons 5-7 was Moffat…after Smith and Gillan laft, I realized I had no problem with Moffat at all. I don´t mind him staying – we had a lots of new writers last year and this year, so what´s the big deal?

So sad, to find out that he is staying until season 10. The show needs somebody new, with new ideas.

Moffat brought us Capaldi (long may he reign), so I am all for many mroe years of Moffat.

I am also glad that this counts as one more defeat for the Tumblr STFUMOffat crowd.

Even if the Yes vote eventually overtakes the early and quite phenomenal acceleration of the No vote, it won’t change my opinion unfortunately.

I’m not close minded. I watched every episode of Series 8 waiting for that Doctor Who feeling, but sadly it didn’t happen. In Series 9, I will be doing the same thing. I don’t like Steven Moffat, but if he can write or someone else can write a decent episode, I will be more than happy to give him credit as I have in the past.

The problem is, as time goes on, the things he’s done wrong stick in my mind and increase more than the things he’s done right.

This all just reminds me of another Sci-Fi franchise that completely and utterly disregarded one audience for the green grass of a new one and when they did that, I completely left it behind. I’d rather not be forced to do that with Doctor Who.

It is another nail in the Doctor Who coffin. Moffat was a good writer under RTD, writing some of the best stories. However, as a Head Writer, he is truly awful! His over obsession with Amy, Clara is Amy mark 2, is dragging the series down. He has not got a companion for the Doctor and never before has the Doctor gone running after a companion in the appalling way the current and previous Doctor has. His idea’s are getting awful, the Moon as an Egg??? Really!!! How bad does it have to get before he goes.

This pleases me.

As Jane Espenson was to Joss Whedon so Moffat is to Davies.

Good at a certain kind of writing, under strict control; pure “progressive” fanwank poison when left unattended in the kitchen.