Well that’s because calling his stories complex is quite frankly letting him off too easily - there’s a difference between complex and deliberately inscrutable
See Steven Moffat subscribes to a school of writing previously made famous by JJ Abrams and the rest of the dinguses who wrote Lost in that he understands that being deliberately obtuse about your plot is a cheap and effective way to make people watch your dumb show
I really hate to be that guy singing Russel T Davies’ praises right now because, as Last of the Time Lords, Journey’s End and The End of Time effectively demonstrate, good god is he by no means a perfect writer
But! But but but butt butte he understood that a good story is a good story and that good characters make you care about that good story and what Moffat does instead is beat you about the ears with the same stupid unanswerable questions in an effort to hold you hostage and show up for next week’s episode - and they’re not unanswerable due to complexity, they’re unanswerable because there’s no fucking way you’d know the answer to those questions. What are the Silence? How does River Song know The Doctor? What’s The Doctor’s real name? I don’t feel like watching Sherlock so I can include a Sherlock related question in this list I’m riffing?
There’s a point in all this, I’ll get to it right now
It’s this: if you’ve been paying attention to Steven Moffat’s style of writing you’d have known for ages leading up to this headline that he has no respect for his audience
He’s not a master of “mind-fuck”, he’s a master of “hahaha fuck you”
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Here’s the Humble Indie Bundle V pack of video games. Basically, it’s just like the image says: Pay what you want, help charity, get cross-platform, DRM-free games. All of the games work on Mac, Windows, and Linux and if you pay a minimum of $1, you’ll get a Steam key in addition to DRM-free direct downloads.
- For any amount you pay, you get Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Psychonauts, LIMBO, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP!
- If you pay more than $7.35, you also get Bastion!
- And in addition to all five games, you get the soundtracks for all five games in FLAC and MP3!
- You can pick and choose exactly how your purchase is divided, either donating to charity, the game developers, or Humble Bundle Inc.
So don’t be dumb. Just do this. It’s for charity and for some of the best games ever.
yeah, do it
do you understand how good of a deal this is?
it’s actually somewhat mind bending
it is your moral imperative to get this deal folks
yeah
here’s my number, so please oh god don’t call i hate talking on the phone send me a text if you need me and don’t get mad if it takes me a few hours to respond maybe
He’s so sugoi…
he makes my kokoro go…
Loki Loki
mom creeps up behind me while im reading r-18 doujinshi
“tima what are you looking at?” (half asleep)
oh fuck mom hurry safe page “fuck hey mom nothing just google”
“that didn’t look like google hunnie what was that?” (mom still drowsy)
“uh…. google got a new web thing, you know how it…
This is why you didn’t make in into The Avengers
THIS IS WHY YOU DIDN’T MAKE IT INTO THE AVENGERS
THIS IS WHY YOU FUCKING DIDN’T MAKE IT INTO THE AVENGERS
THE JOKE ISNT GONNA BECOME MAGICALLY FUNNIER BECAUSE IT WAS REPEATED AND BOLDED
THE JOKE ISNT GONNA BECOME MAGICALLY FUNNIER BECAUSE IT WAS REPEATED AND BOLDED
#THE JOKE ISNT GONNA BECOME MAGICALLY FUNNIER BECAUSE IT WAS REPEATED AND BOLDED
The joke isn’t going to make it into the Avengers because it was repeated and bolded.
None of you are getting into the Avengers with that attitude!
These posts are why tumblr is not in the Avengers
THESE POSTS ARE WHY TUMBLR IS NOT IN THE AVENGERES
YOU TRIED
A for effort
(Source: ceronprime)
