7 Reasons You're Getting Tired Of Steven Moffat's Doctor Who

7. He Repeats The Same Tricks Over And Over

The Doctor meets a child. Because fans have never seen that one before. In fact, he and the children make friends, bond and he imparts some sort of tiny life lesson to the little sprog. Then the Doctor meets that child again, this time as an adult and they are still somehow bound to him... Moffat first used this narrative device in The Girl in the Fireplace, when the Doctor met Madame de Pompadour first as a child, then as a fully fledged adult. The juxtaposition of how much she'd changed with how much he hadn't, and the fact that he still remained important to her after all those years, was deeply affecting. It was still affecting when Moffat used it years later, during his first year showrunning, to introduce the Eleventh Doctor's first companion, Amelia Pond. She was the first person that he saw with his new face and she fed him and helped him adjust to his regeneration. Like The Girl In The Fireplace, he promised to immediately return but ended up doing so years and years later. It was still quite affecting in Moffat's first Christmas episode, A Christmas Carol, when the Doctor tried to change a grumpy old man's mind by going back in time and bonding with his younger self. It wasn't very affecting when he met his current companion, Clara, in a playground. In the most recent series, the Twelfth Doctor met Clara's boyfriend Danny Pink as a child and taught him a life lesson about fear before he met him as a fully-fledged adult. Time for something new, perhaps?