4. Longer Singular Stories Are Steven Moffats Specialty
If you examine most of showrunner Steven Moffats career on Doctor Who over the years, it looks highly likely that he will mainly be remembered for his singular, often extended and usually terrifying one off stories. While his individual episodes are a force to be reckoned with, especially the classic Blink, his two part stories like The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances and Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead made a huge and lasting impression on the revived series, and arguably granted him control of it. What is notable about these episodes is how the serials end on a very tense cliffhanger, only to be resolved in a rather fun and tongue-in-cheek manner. Furthermore, his other current series Sherlock comprises of three feature-length episodes per season, and is met with universal acclaim. Can you imagine a Doctor Who episode structured and filmed in a similar style to Sherlock, and then divided over three to four weeks, knowing that every week would end on a note of huge suspense with no predicting what the resolution would be? So there you have my case for serials of Doctor Who. I think Steven Moffat is right to say that the show will always have an appeal, and maybe this change would allow it to reach greater heights and win over even more new fans. I would be keen to know if anyone agrees.