Freckles & Doubt

There's often an element of this in his work for me, but it doesn't always predominate to quite this extent. I enjoyed his work in earlier Doctor Who, when it was frequently actually clever, and his tighter control of narrative structure was thrown into relief by Russell Davies's fondness for emotional spectacle over plot, but he's lost a lot of that over time. Also, his deeply dodgy gender politics has become progressively more painful. Like an ingrowing toenail. The bugger about scripts like Bride is that they make me go back and reassess earlier episodes in a far more unfavourable light. In short, you're not wrong :>.