ltia wrote:
It's strange that Dr Who sometimes struggles like this when forced into 45 minute stories given the number of TV shows there have been where it seems plenty. The x-files for example could be really slow moving and worked fine in that format. I've always been a fan of the 4 part, 24 minute stories. Anything more than that was usually too long, less than that seemed filler/rushed.
Nothing strange about it - The X-Files, generally speaking, had far better writers (in many episodes for the first few series at least).
I'm surprised that Moffat accepted that episode from Toby Whithouse - it really wasn't up to scratch and needed a lot more work done on it.