The Doctor Who Thread

True, but I still love the Twelfth Doctor even though the writing for most of his tenure kinda sucked.

Most of his episodes haven't been that brilliant really and it was obvious they couldn't figure out what to do with his character for most of S8. They clearly intended him to be a "darker" Doctor only to then backpedal away from actually following through with it, leaving the whole "Am I a good man?" subplot not really something the audience was questioning.

(Also didn't help that Twelve was lumbered with Clara. Not only was this a companion who didn't gel with Twelve at all, but continuously took focus away from him, had no real characteristics beyond being a bossy egomaniac and kept being brought back, all because Moffat couldn't bear to let go of his creator's pet)

I'm a bit concerned about Chris Chibnall now being the showrunner because his work for Doctor Who (or Torchwood) hasn't been particularly sterling and mostly average. Broadchurch also ended up losing momentum in it's second series because it ran into the same problem as Twin Peaks, where they had no idea what to do next after resolving the initial mystery. They only managed to reasonably salvage the plot of Broadchurch in Series 3 and give it a proper ending.

Still, bad writing can't be chalked up to the Doctor now being female though, because all Doctors have had some utter clunkers.

We can't fault Jodie if the writing isn't up to snuff. Same as it wasn't Colin Baker's fault that the Sixth Doctor wasn't particularly well liked or received during the 80s. The head of the BBC was actively trying to kill the show, his character was often written as an arrogant douche and was forced to wear a technocolour nightmare coat.