1. Steve Thompson Will Always Progress Through A Story Via Plot Twists
If you know who Steve Thompson is, the chances are that you won't be looking forward to his third Doctor Who story. Since becoming the third wheel to Moffat and Gatiss's Sherlock, he's penned 'The Curse of the Black Spot' and 'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS', both released to critical and popular disappointment. So what's actually wrong with Steve's scripts? It might have something to do with the fact that Thompson can't advance a story without a good old-fashioned plot twist; the direction of his stories tend to take so many left turns, you forget where they started out. There was one roughly every five minutes in '...Black Spot', in which the Doctor constantly altered his mind as to what was going on. 'Journey...' was equally labyrinthine: seriously, just count the twists. The Doctor never set off the timer, Tricky isn't actually a robot, those zombie creatures are them, it's not a cliff but a "snarl", the whole story never happened... and that's just focussing on the more memorable ones. It's the same with his Sherlock work, but somehow, the endless twists seem to fit a detective drama so much better. Come on Steve, give us a clear story, and then throw just one big twist out towards the end: that'll be enough. Who are your favourite Doctor Who writers? Comment below!
