Hee, "Brown Betty" is fun times.

A season in a week isn't THAT bad, right?

When I was mainlining Farscape, I did seasons in a matter of days.

[Martha] ended up married to Rose’s ex-boyfriend Mickey

Wait, what? Did this happen on TW? And didn't Mickey end up in the alt-universe? I'm so confused.

That confused me too. Wasn't Martha engaged to a hot doctor? I know we saw her and Mickey having adventures together at some point (during RTD's final episode, maybe?), but I don't remember thinking they were married. Mickey did live in the alt-universe for a while, but I'm pretty sure he ended up returning to "our" universe in the end.

I was super thrilled for Moffat and tired of RTD's maudlin attitude (that extended goodbye sequence in Tennant's final ep? Hurt my poor rolling eyeballs, even if there were parts I liked). And yet, Moffat has not lived up to my expectations.

Same here. And oy, I wish I hadn't read that quote from him.

I'm not crazy about Amy and I adore Rory, so I obviously disagree with the OP and Sady about a few things, but the post and comments did help me realize something about Amy and Rory's relationship: there's no there there. I don't know if the problem is the writing or the acting or if they just have no real chemistry, but I have yet to see a scene between the two of them in which I actually believed that they loved each other or even got along or knew each other very well. So it makes the love triangle stuff even more obnoxious, and it makes Rory's mooning around after Amy seem mostly just sad, and it makes Amy's attitude toward him seem mostly just condescending and kind of mean.

I haven't read the article yet. I just never warmed to grown-up Amy, is my problem, but I adore Rory, and I like Eleven and River Song, so I'm still happy with it. I just figure that within the show, I need to believe that they love Amy, so I go with it, even though I don't really see it.

No episode in Eleven's run has come close to Empty Child/Doctor Dances or Blink for me, but overall, I am enjoying him in the role and the show. I like him equally as well as Ten, and find him kind of refreshing. Man, I still miss Nine and wish we'd gotten more of him.

Moffat's quote, I don't get. I suppose I should read the article. Whatever.

I like him equally as well as Ten, and find him kind of refreshing. Man, I still miss Nine and wish we'd gotten more of him.

Agreed on all counts. Oh, Nine. *sigh*

Here's the interview with Moffat, dating back to Eccleston times. [link]

I just never warmed to grown-up Amy, is my problem

I like Amy fine, but yeah, the wee!Amelia was so freakin' adorable that I never quite got over her growing up. I don't OMG OTP-ship Amy and Rory, but they give me warm and fuzzies. Plus, I never took the so-called love triangle seriously.

My biggest investment in the Moffat run of DW is with River, and Doctor/River. I love their twisty, complicated, funny-tragic relationship and ever-shifting power balance.

Overall, Moffat still has edge over RTD for me because he hasn't yet mangled up season endings in such godawful, self-indulgent emo-porn masturbation. The only RTD season ender that didn't make me roll my eyes until they fell out/give me rage black-out is the first season with Nine.

In reading the actual Moffat interview, he seems to be talking about household stuff, like decorating, not all of life. Which I get--many couples I know have homes where the decorating sensibility is basically the wife's.

zuisa,

excellent. you are well set up and prepared. There are a few HSQ in season 3, but since you are properly in the Fringe world, you might not be surprised too often. Around Season 3 I decided I was along just for the ride.

Scrappy, I read the interview too, but there was nothing in it that really redeemed the quote Nora posted above, which is clearly not just about household decorating:

"Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male."

I don't know whether or not to take that quote at face value, and obviously I don't know the first thing about his marriage, but it seems to reflect a pretty sad view of men, women, and relationships that I strongly disagree with.

I sorta thought it was a continuation of what we was saying in the previous paragraph with an interjection from the Interviewer in between:

But it was his first meaningful relationship in ages that inspired Coupling. When he and Susan started living together, he says he was confronted with a "completely different set of life priorities": suddenly there were cushions everywhere. Or, as his alter ego in the show puts it: "Tiny picture frames, toilet-roll holders, toilet-roll ... "