I agree with so much of this. I actually enjoyed the fairy tale feel when Matt Smith first started. The arc of the Eleventh Hour through the Big Bang was really enjoyable to me, but I also think that the seeds of the problems with Doctor Who were sown in that arc. Until then, the Doctor had never been truly destroyed. But with The Big Bang, he was wiped out of existence only to be brought back by Amy. Admittedly one of the changes that came with New Who was that the companions had pretty consistently rescued the Doctor, instead of the old pattern of the other way around. Rose saved the day in when she took on the Tardis energy. Martha walked around the world spreading belief in the Doctor so that he could heal and defeat the Master. Donna in part became the Doctor to help him save the universe. I was never thrilled with the companions suddenly becoming the more effective actor than the Doctor, but until Amy they didn't overshadow him. Then Amy brought the Doctor back from not existing at all and suddenly the Doctor became the damsel in distress. Once might have been acceptable, but suddenly Clara is responsible for saving the Doctor for every single one of his incarnations and really? When did the Doctor become so incompetent that he needed a million Claras to save him throughout time and space? It's kind of insulting, IMHO.
So I have had Clara issues for a while. But this episode had holes out the wazoo. All the Doctor had to do was load the population of Christmas into the Tardis, relocate them and never go back to Trenzalore. After all The Tardis is "bigger on the inside than on the outside". Once there was no city to protect from the rampaging hordes who wanted the Time Lords to not come back, all The Doctor had to do was not bring them back, end of story. Or if he wants them back give his name and coordinates where the rampaging hordes aren't waiting for the Time Lords to enter our universe and then throw up a cloaking device and easy peasy no galactic war. I hate it when I'm more cleaver than The Doctor, because I'm not all that clever.
But I really resent Clara being the super specialist snowflake companion ever. I loved Sarah Jane and The Doctor left her behind and never gave her a second thought. Donna, well I really loved Donna and IMHO she was the most totally screwed of all the companions, even more screwed than the ones that died, and he never really looked back that much at her either. I don't know Clara. I don't have a feeling for Clara. If she had stayed Victorian Clara, I would have liked her better, but this Clara? I can't see how The Doctor remembered her, when he couldn't remember that the kid he had been living with wasn't Barnaby (or Barnabas it didn't stick). He couldn't remember who had lived and died among the people he was seeing EVERY SINGLE DAY, but he remembered a woman he saw for what, a year, 300+ years ago? It made no sense.
I liked Matt Smith. I know many people love David Tennant's Doctor, but he became way too emo for me, although David's acting was always superb. I disliked River because he story never held together for me. I liked Amy mostly because she brought Rory along with her and I really liked Rory, but Clara, Clara needs some real development because right now, she could be anyone.
I wish that like Russel T. Davies, Steven Moffet had decided that when "his doctor" left that he was leaving too. Then the show could start with a clean slate and bring the show back to something that resembles the show I loved. And maybe stop having the universe in danger of being destroyed EVERY season. Things really were fine when The Doctor was just trying to save one planet, not the entire galaxy or the entire universe.
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So I have had Clara issues for a while. But this episode had holes out the wazoo. All the Doctor had to do was load the population of Christmas into the Tardis, relocate them and never go back to Trenzalore. After all The Tardis is "bigger on the inside than on the outside". Once there was no city to protect from the rampaging hordes who wanted the Time Lords to not come back, all The Doctor had to do was not bring them back, end of story. Or if he wants them back give his name and coordinates where the rampaging hordes aren't waiting for the Time Lords to enter our universe and then throw up a cloaking device and easy peasy no galactic war. I hate it when I'm more cleaver than The Doctor, because I'm not all that clever.
But I really resent Clara being the super specialist snowflake companion ever. I loved Sarah Jane and The Doctor left her behind and never gave her a second thought. Donna, well I really loved Donna and IMHO she was the most totally screwed of all the companions, even more screwed than the ones that died, and he never really looked back that much at her either. I don't know Clara. I don't have a feeling for Clara. If she had stayed Victorian Clara, I would have liked her better, but this Clara? I can't see how The Doctor remembered her, when he couldn't remember that the kid he had been living with wasn't Barnaby (or Barnabas it didn't stick). He couldn't remember who had lived and died among the people he was seeing EVERY SINGLE DAY, but he remembered a woman he saw for what, a year, 300+ years ago? It made no sense.
I liked Matt Smith. I know many people love David Tennant's Doctor, but he became way too emo for me, although David's acting was always superb. I disliked River because he story never held together for me. I liked Amy mostly because she brought Rory along with her and I really liked Rory, but Clara, Clara needs some real development because right now, she could be anyone.
I wish that like Russel T. Davies, Steven Moffet had decided that when "his doctor" left that he was leaving too. Then the show could start with a clean slate and bring the show back to something that resembles the show I loved. And maybe stop having the universe in danger of being destroyed EVERY season. Things really were fine when The Doctor was just trying to save one planet, not the entire galaxy or the entire universe.