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

5. Clara

The single biggest complaint about Series 7 (well, perhaps the second biggest - more on that later!) was the weakness of the Doctor's current companion, Clara Oswald. Moffat had achieved great success with River Song, a space vixen supporting character with family-friendly levels of seductive, who met the Doctor throughout time and her entire identity was a gradually-unfolding mystery. Moffat, being Moffat, thought that the idea was good enough to be reused so he decided to make the next companion's entire identity a mystery, too. Prior to Clara joining the Doctor in the TARDIS full time, he met her twice, both times she died. Mysterious. The identity of Clara was the biggest narrative thread of the seventh series. Unfortunately, this was something of a disaster because it meant that, for an entire run of episodes, fans had no idea who Clara even was as a character. Probably because she wasn't a character. She was just a puzzle for the Doctor to solve. His "impossible girl". Bad news for the talented Jenna Coleman, who was robbed of agency and made decisions that nobody quite understood. In Series 8, once the mystery was out of the way, the Doctor got to know his best friend a lot more. He found out she was bossy and a teacher. She was somewhat deceptive, hiding her relationship with the Doctor from Danny, and was even manipulative under extreme grief. Throughout Series 7, however, she was a blank slate, with no overriding characteristics other than 'glib', which is a problem because...