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Originally Posted by Oberon
Oh, don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the Daleks and Cybermen as a villain...buuut, Moffat has shown he's not that brilliant at writing for them. The last decent Dalek episode was the 'Stolen Earth/Journey's End' pair, and the last decent Cybermen episode was 'Nightmare in Silver', neither of which were made by Moffat.  |
Well, Moffat hasn't actually written a Cyberman story yet. The closest he's gotten is
The Pandorica Opens and
The Name of the Doctor, which both featured Cybermen, but not as the main villains, so we don't really know what a Cyberman episode from him will be like.
Also, anyone else recognize the design of the red window in Missy's room?
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EDIT: As for Dalek stories, I think that
Victory was rather good (yeah, I like the New Dalek Paradigm), although that was written by Mark Gatiss, not Moffat.
Pretty much all the Dalek stories after
Evolution of the Daleks have had problems.
The Stolen Earth and
Journey's End show Davros as he normally is, when in
Remembrance of the Daleks he's a head in a Dalek Emperor casing (which kinda raises the question of why there's a different Emperor in
Parting of the Ways). Also, if the Daleks of the New Dalek Empire were grown from Davros' cells, why do they view him as inferior? And wouldn't he have programmed the Daleks to view him as their leader, like in
Revelation of the Daleks? Anyway, apart from that,
The Stolen Earth and
Journey's End are probably my favourite RTD Dalek stories.
Victory of the Daleks has those new Daleks, which I think are beautiful, but everyone else hates, so I guess it still counts as a problem.
City of the Daleks and
Asylum of the Daleks both show Skaro still existing, despite being blown up by the Hand of Omega in
Remembrance (or was that Antalin that blew up?). The only explanations given for Skaro's survival are in
War of the Daleks, which sounds like a valiant but convoluted story, and the fan animation
The Dalek That Time Forgot, which isn't officially recognized as canon.
The only post
Evolution stories I can think of that don't cause headaches when you think about them are
The Only Good Dalek and
Into the Dalek, and even they raise questions (why did the Daleks mass-produce the New Paradigm casings, then go back to the Time War casings?).